Short Fiction
I Found Out
This is the first installment of a work in progress. The title is from a song by John Lennon. New York, March 28th, 2032 Diary of [...]
Lights in Darkness
“Lights in Darkness” is new fiction by prize-winnning author Mathew Lebowitz, who has been a frequent contributor of fiction to the magazine over the years
Rendezvous
Leighton House is a museum and gallery near London’s Holland Park. It is the former home and studio of the leading Victorian painter Frederick, Lord Leighton. [...]
The Outsider
The sight of a train brings memories. Memories I never imagined lived there. Memories about the stories my mother told me. Stories about my grandfather’s travel [...]
Polly Swims
An eerie new short story from Mathew Lebowitz portrays a futuristic experiment run amok.
Double Nickel
This is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel titled “Further from Home," set largely in an imaginary Long Island high school. [dropcap]D[/dropcap]an’s been watching Larry in [...]
Glass Elevator
In new fiction by Alice Stephens, Dot's elevator ride turns into something entirely different, and menacing.
Buona Sera, Uncle Ray (Rosebud, New Jersey, 1969)
[dropcap]U[/dropcap]ncle Ray! Uncle Ray! The Bonaventura brothers, Louie and Tony, ages nine and seven, abandon play, leave their friend Dave in his neighboring yard, drop bats [...]
The Detained
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he prison door opened, soaking the gray cell with bright fluorescence. Jean stiffened against the thin mattress, its coils pressing across his back. Several guards appeared [...]
The Tour Pro
Peter Vilbig: "I'm an 8 percenter (which used to be called Middle Caste). Forget the Starvelings, the Subalterns, the Substratas..."
Jimmy, an excerpt
Bonnie Altucher: "Had he shot himself up in her bathroom? And then tidied up? Or taken a sponge bath?"
Fiction Editor
David Winner
David Winner is the magazine’s Fiction Editor. Any short story submissions should be referred to him using the contact box on the home page.