Literary Fiction

  • The Cruise

    Reading Time: ~10 minutes The boat set sail early in the morning, on a summer day. Mark boarded it first. His wife, Linda, followed. The children came last, jostling each other other in their excitement. “Stop that,” Mark said to them, embarrassed. They either didn’t hear or him or ignored him. Tom pushed Alice and…

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  • The Island

    Reading Time: ~15 minutes The floating island was home to several hundred men, women, and children. Beyond it, a floating mist perpetually floated, where clouds clung together like errant dreams. Rivers squirmed through the tropical air, bubbling in the misted sunshine, and spiraled off into infinity. Long, endless vines hung from the grassy edges of…

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  • The Elevator

    Reading Time: ~5 minutes  Available at http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-elevator-by-blaise-lucey/.

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  • The Mirror is Not a Window for the Soul

    Reading Time: ~10 minutes  Harold’s wife is cheating on him. He knows it. It’s obvious. She gets home later than usual. It’s happened for a few months. Her excuse is that the newspaper has had to fire some copy editors, so now the reporters have to look over their own articles. It takes a few…

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