Fairy Tale
by Sean Johnston
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On the drive to work tod... Read More...
No Entry
by Gila Green
Yael scrambles to put on the new tea-colored hiking boots her parents sent, sliding her feet into the stiff leather. She switches off the air ... Read More...
Changelings
by Carolyn Oliver
Engrossed by the submarines stalking each other through the abyss, Maeve mistook the sound in the chimney for a clump of snow falling through ... Read More...
Florida, 1961: On the Grove
by Andrew Furman
Isaac Golden shuffled the potatoes about the plate, his cutlery clinking profanities. He had identified the counterfeit liquid at a glance, re... Read More...
Bitter Nights and Days
by Katie Rogin
Captain Lise Sheridan—recently discharged honorably from the 10th Combat Support Hospital, U.S. Army—knew with tremendous certainty, as she sa... Read More...
Third of July
by Ben Ristow
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Barry had spent the a... Read More...
Spill Stories:
Veins, Like a System
by Eshani Surya
Spill Stories is a new Terrain.org series that fuses the interactive climate justice story maps of the Climate Alliance Mapping Project with t... Read More...
Piano Tide: Two Excerpts
by Kathleen Dean Moore
Tick walked a circle around the new woman’s cargo. Somebody who knew knots had tied that tarp up—a single trucker’s hitch, no nonsense.
“What... Read More...
All the Sweet and Beautiful Boys
by Linda Ferguson
Ella and I are in the big bed with the fine sheets, and we can’t stop giggling over the thrill of an unexpected knock on our door that evening... Read More...
N-Place Exiting
by Thomas Ausa
Winner : Terrain.org 8th Annual Contest in Fiction
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The cumulative rumbling of the box fan in the master bedroom usually aw... Read More...
The Stilled Ring
by Luther Allen
Finalist : Terrain.org 8th Annual Contest in Fiction
He stood, shoulders slumped, in the midst of the cluttered garage. Bewild... Read More...
pH: A Novel Excerpt
by Nancy Lord
It was cold, standing at the ship’s rail that early on a September morning, without a hat. Ray’s annoyance at having left his wool cap in his ... Read More...
