Short fiction.
Five stories that circle the same question in different keys: how much of a person survives being wanted only for their surface. Tap any one to read it in a clean, full-screen frame built for the page or the phone.
The Cake
A father saves the best thing in the house for himself, all through a brutal day, until four small figures appear in the doorway.
Read the story →Demon
Turned away at the gates of heaven and left to wander, a spirit hardens into something monstrous, then is slowly undone by a stranger’s kindness.
Read the story →Life in the Fishbowl
Humanity lives beneath a sky of baited hooks that reel people up and away. Sid has dodged every one of them, until he meets Hazel.
Read the story →Echoes of the Departed
In an empty church, a grieving stranger hears an old priest confess the night his own mourning summoned something that only wore the face of the woman he lost.
Read the story →One Day Again
Decades and four children into a fraying marriage, an estranged couple climbs into a machine that lets them relive a single day, and each, without telling the other, chooses the same one.
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