Articles in the Fiction Category

Spell-Checked Padding, pt. 4
by Seth Lavode
Posted in Fiction on 18 February 2010
Stats: 5 views and Comments

A few weeks later there was another event, it was life changing. A form of pure excitement infused and consumed with happiness…

Table for One
by Christina Bryza
Posted in Fiction on 9 February 2010
Stats: 10 views and Comments

Jackhammers would have been better—loud noises, he could sleep through. For several mornings now, jackhammers had assaulted his eardrums beginning at six a.m., and he was almost used to them. But the persistent buzz of his cell phone at eleven thirty p.m. on a Friday night successfully penetrated his haze of near sleep.

Spell-Checked Padding, pt. 3
by Seth Lavode
Posted in Fiction on 14 January 2010
Stats: 29 views and Comments

Each assignment had called for a job, a new history, even a new personality. This time all we had to do was write and sell infotech, and be regular cool nerdy folk.

The Fugitives, ch. 3
by Jennifer Vo
Posted in Fiction on 14 January 2010
Stats: 25 views and Comments

Scientists continue to research a cure for this component…a cure that will replace the element from the child’s DNA. The “injected” believe that the only possible cure for this is…death.

Sanctuary!
by Ilan Moskowitz
Posted in Fiction on 15 December 2009
Stats: 19 views and Comments

A man arrived at the First Church of Christ the Ever So Well Endowed one night yelling “SANCTUARY!” The nuns flocked around unsure what to do. To the untrained eye it may have looked like a riot in the penguin cage.

Two-Tiered Comeuppance
by Ilan Moskowitz
Posted in Fiction on 15 December 2009
Stats: 9 views and Comments

The ride up to the cabin was frustrating. Neither O’Shea nor Adams knew much about music, but both were sound system enthusiasts. Their cars were equipped with gigantic, earthshattering subwoofers that comprised the entirety of their backseats and functioned primarily as shiatsu massagers.

Spell-Checked Padding, pt. 2
by Seth Lavode
Posted in Fiction on 3 December 2009
Stats: 8 views and Comments

We met up for a date after work. Me and Courtney that is. It was kinda awkward.
“I can’t believe we’re like on a date or whatever.” she said
“I know, it’s kinda weird,., in a good way” I nodded
“It’s the first time we’ll get to talk about something nonwork related.”

The Fugitives, ch. 2
by Jennifer Vo
Posted in Fiction on 24 November 2009
Stats: 30 views and Comments

Scientists continue to research a cure for this component…a cure that will replace the element from the child’s DNA. The “injected” believe that the only possible cure for this is…death.

Stacy’s Story: Iraq Homecoming, ch. 3
by Tim Finkbeiner
Posted in Fiction on 10 November 2009
Stats: 20 views and Comments

“I wrote this short script a year ago after seeing a woman with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.”

Part of the Act
by Ilan Moskowitz
Posted in Fiction on 15 October 2009
Stats: 17 views and Comments

The Illusionist, a strapping young lad none too long in the tooth, came marching onto the stage to set up.

The Lexicographer
by Ilan Moskowitz
Posted in Featured, Fiction on 15 October 2009
Stats: 15 views and Comments

“I’m not sure who originally said it, but print is dead. Free online digital information databases, with their glut of instantly accessible ‘Facts’ and ‘Figures,’ have singlehandedly driven us once great Encyclopedia Barons to the unemployment offices.”

Spell-Checked Padding, pt. 1
by Seth Lavode
Posted in Fiction on 13 October 2009
Stats: 21 views and Comments

“I woke up without really knowing that I was. That moment where dreams and reality blend lasts forever sometimes. But not when you wake up still wasted fully clothed and spooning with a large black man. The scattered bottles brought scattered images from the night before.”