dstoll
Be warned that the raw treatment of sex (as explicit as the most explicit Philip Roth) in this account of youth misspent by an American adrift in England in the early Seventies won't be for everyone.
Ava
An older woman kisses a pot roast, and a young woman finds a secret closet.
cotypoynter
Greg, a middle-aged professor, following the loss of his daughter and the failure of his marriage, relocates to a rented room in the countryside.
Dominik Hageback
A paid memoirist takes a commission somewhere in the global South, to (ghost)write the autobiography of a man named Kroll. Writer and subject are doubles, ambiguously connected.
Kat Gardiner
A snapshot from a young woman's life in the year after she moved to a small town to open an all ages venue and coffee shop with her husband. Set in the Pacific Northwest in 2007
Dwayne
A man reads a social media post from an old crush. As flash fiction, it isn't meant to get much longer.
MW Mills
How brief encounters with the people in his neighborhood inspire empathy in an elderly man.
smithreynolds
This is part of a larger piece. I placed "FOG", and a piece called "SUNDOWN" in this workshop. Pas de Trois, a dance for three, is about Rudolpho, Mundo and Bliss,the day of Rudolpho's funeral.
Bellbird
Two lovers meet again after a separation of 20 years. One holds a secret, never revealed to the other. The encounter does not end well. Or perhaps it does.
MW Mills
A three year old girl and the darkest motives of a vengeful motherhood.
strangevibrella
A Kaleidoscopic take on the artificiality of contemporary romance and attraction.
MW Mills
An essay on my most recent visit with my grandmother and how we failed to connect within the branded space of a chain restaurant.
exoticfabric
The beginning of a much longer story that this writer doesn't have the arrogance to expect strangers on the internet to read.
MW Mills
A man, driven to suicide by crippling anxiety and addiction, finds his plans altered by a woman standing before him in a checkout line.
ginatroisi
Sam, the protagonist, is struggling to assess what he and his wife, Maggie have left together after they endure a family tragedy.
Dorothy Rice
Three flash fiction pieces. Ideally can be read as separate or linked.
smithreynolds
MUNDO and BLISS have been estranged for years. Bliss returns to bury Mundo's father. Pablo is Mundo's uncle, brother to the deceased. Pablo is featured in previously submitted short/short called FOG.
MW Mills
An excitable man waiting in a checkout line gets slapped out of his thoughts and into reality by Marilyn Monroe.
15 Points
These 15 points could be yours, if only you would join us! Look how big and green they are, it must seem like they are screaming your name. (note: returning workshop members do not receive 15 free points. Your point balance will return to where it was.)
