Literary Fiction Stories

Elara Nightwood

The river had been singing for three hundred years before anyone thought to give the song a body. Not anyone, precisely. The willows did it—six of them leaning …

Dr. H. Ashford

From the personal diary of Mr. Edmund Crale, formerly employed as Head Groundskeeper at Blackwood Manor, Shropshire. The diary was discovered in the potting she…

Cass Ferren

Pearl button, ½ inch, slightly yellowed You hold it to the light and it does not become translucent. You were told once that real pearl lets light through. Or w…