A Recipe for Not Getting Sent to the Asylum by Your Husband, Again

“Every time I whip this up, my husband says I smell and taste like pie. If you follow this recipe, your husband won’t be able to get enough of you and certainly won’t be thinking about sending you away.”

Short StorySubmissionJune 8, 2020fiction, satire, christina rossoComment

Woman Seeking Dominatrix

“You’re left-swiping faster than boy-racers on the M1. Boring, boring, dickhead, boring, weird. Is this how people find dates? You pause when you reach her.”

there is a town that gets no visitors

“Silent as a whisper, he ghosts into the hall. No light leaks out from beneath his father’s door, but the boy stands watch, his tiny heart beating in his chest. An hour, a lifetime, an eternity, it seems, and his father begins to snore. The boy moves again.”

Short StorySubmissionFebruary 24, 2020short story, kira compton, spooky stories, spooky, horror, horror fiction, short fictionComment

Child That Was You

They took the child you once were before you were even born. They robbed her with their laws and their stares and their whistles, kicked her down and she could never dream, no, not even in my arms as I waited for the other you, the dead you, to come back for her.

Short StoryFleurDecember 12, 2019fleur, short story, creative writing, fiction, womanhood, women, girls, girlhood, society, wild womxn, wildernessComment

someone else's boyfriend

“but of course / that’s all we do on the / aihland / drink lukewarm rum out of coconuts / that I suction onto my breasts / to let you rip off / & drink / the liquor sweating, glowing”

Darkest Night, Darkest Day

“The sinister presence began its rolling creep up the stairs. No one ever saw it. It traveled under cover of darkness – the darkness of night, of a windowless room, of an underground crypt.”

Short StorySubmissionOctober 31, 2019hallow's eve, hallow's eve 2019, laura cody, short story, spooky stories, halloween, happy halloweenComment

Dear Llungwe

“Today, I realized that you can run away from home but you carry it with you always.”

Short StorySubmissionSeptember 30, 2019tope ogundare, short story, dear llungwe, proseComment

THE DAY SHE SWALLOWED THE SUN

Short StoryFleurAugust 6, 2019fleur, sun, moon, short storyComment

Bedroom Predator

short story by Christina Rosso

Flash Fiction, Short StorySubmissionJuly 15, 2019creative writing, christina rossoComment

Where Have You Been

“There’s no truth to the accusation – because it is one, everybody’s reaction tells her so – and yet her heart seizes with fear, because she was told it should. None of them understand anything past the shame she’ll feel and the power he’ll gain, and for him that’s enough.”

Short StoryFleurJune 25, 2019Comment

Party Favor

short story by Krista Diamond

Short StorySubmissionMay 13, 2019short story, las vegas, women's stories, sex-positive, krista diamondComment

Back From the Dead Red

“The fire crept along the sides of her sleeping chamber. The blooming obsidian smoke choked the air from her quarters. Her screams for help were answered by a soot covered man with a receding hairline and ugly intentions.”