Day: June 12, 2025

Issue 32

Photo by Christopher Jeffrey on Unsplash The first seven stories in Issue 32 were shortlisted for Gooseberry Pie’s 2nd annual writing competition. Old

Memory Foam

Photo by Fernando Rodrigues on Unsplash by Sarp Sozdinler Mom groans and turns in her sleep. She mumbles some half-formed words in the

Triangulation

Photo by freepix.com by David Luntz A homeless man sees office workers move in a tranced circle, sometimes clockwise, sometimes

Wane And Wax

Photo by Guzmán Barquín on Unsplash by Haley Bossé When she was eight, Alice Henderson briefly held the world record for filling her

Puppy

by thiszsabir: Pexels.com by Sharon Wahl He promised me everything.  I hesitated before replying, and while I thought about what I

Survivors’ Kids At Carcassonne

Photo by Mak on Unsplash by Faye Rapoport DesPres At Carcassonne we bought cheese and baguettes and stuffed them into our backpacks. We’d

We Forge

Photo by Alireza heidarpour on Unsplash by Lina Lau We forge our parents’ signatures and place fistfuls of change on the counter in

A Masculine Man

Photo by Matthew Smith on Unsplash by Natalie Marino John Smith was a masculine man. After midnight, just before his sixty-sixth birthday, he

The Moon Files For Bankruptcy

Photo by Samantha Kennedy on Unsplash by Chrissy Stegman The stars look away, abashed, while the lawyer who files on the moon’s behalf

Feathered Friend*

*Shortlisted for Gooseberry Pie’s 2nd Annual Writing Contest Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash by MaxieJane Frazier Skunky wet chicken feathers threatened to

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