Tag: microfiction

The Interruption

Photo by Unsplash+ by Anne Anthony From a distance a girl stirs, leans forward, and stuffs the metal urn inside

Shitheads on the Wall

Photo by Unsplash+ by Luanne Castle When it happened, I had only seen my mom get off our floral couch

Woolworth

photo by Daniel Newhouse Unsplash+ by Didi Wood You won’t remember me, an unfamiliar, undersized, unkempt child of five clutching

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Last Chair Sitting

Lucinda Age 5 and Her Mother’s Great Friend, Bob O’Conner by Lucinda Kempe The Butaca saw the world explode leaving

Open For Submissions

Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions for its 2025 issues. Responses usually

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Acrophobia

Photo by Patrice Bouchard on Unsplash by Kathryn Kulpa That time you hung, frozen, at the top of the giant water slide, between

Wild Strawberries 

Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash by Wilson Koewing When we were young and eager our lives played out like foreign cinema. Such

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Magic Eyes

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash by MaxieJane Frazier I believe in magic. I grasp ruthlessly severed flesh, chosen for its eyes, and bury

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Cleave

Photo by Michael Tuszynski on Unsplash by Lisa K. Buchanan Work brought me, at twenty-three, to birthfather territory, shortly after we first met.

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