PROSE | Puerto del Sol

FICTION | things from the dirt sometimes come out

Madeline Kinkel

20 hours ago
9 min

FICTION | things from the dirt sometimes come out

When death came for her, it came like a friend, soft-mouthed and kind-footed.

Cara Lynn Albert

Oct 23
10 min

FICTION | Acquired Taste

He stared at her, and she stared back. Matching amber eyes with no fragment of familiarity.

FICTION | The Moon is Gone and Will Never Return

David Heronry

Oct 9
18 min

FICTION | The Moon is Gone and Will Never Return

I want to write small poems. I want to write about people, not the state of the world.

Katie Jean Shinkle

Oct 2
9 min

FICTION | The Mercy Method

Everything trapped inside of its own fear. When you believe everything is bad, how can it get worse?

Travis McDonald

Sep 4
6 min

FICTION | The Dancer and the Lure

Here she is both within the world and without it. A tableau vivant of an unbroken ballerina.

FICTION | 西瓜甜不甜？(is the watermelon sweet?)

Emily Yang

Sep 2
32 min

FICTION | 西瓜甜不甜？(is the watermelon sweet?)

2020 PROSE CONTEST WINNER. You understand, Ama. It was all I could give them in return.

Lisa Bubert

Aug 7
26 min

FICTION | WOMAN HOLLERING

Except that she was here now, and the oddest thing of all was that she seemed to belong here more than me.

David Hansen

Aug 5
4 min

FLASH FICTION | My Body

My mother says it, too. “I am not my body,” she says. But she does not say it the way my doctor says it. My doctor says it softly, to me.

Elizabeth Caswell

Jul 10
14 min

FICTION | Mapping Manny

This star, five points contained by a circle on the west side of Highway 12 – this is where Manny died.

Leonora Desar

Jul 8
4 min

FLASH FICTION | Minor Key

I used to stand there, for hours, and one day I grew roots. They were there. No one else could see them.

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