The Illuminarium
The Illuminarium never should have been built. We know that now. At the time of its conception, the Illuminarium’s makers were stupid and choked with hope. They were sad (the…
The Empath
The stranger’s suffering called to her across a great stretch of wood and thicket. Its distance, its faintness should have made it easy to ignore, but instead it nagged at…
Spinal Tap
by Angela Liu
The Tinder Box
“One spark. Two sparks. Three. This is what it takes to ignite a revolution.” A reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s original fairytale, “The Tinder Box” tells the story of a…
What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom
After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop…
Literary MagNet: Patricia Q. Bidar
In 2018, Patricia Q. Bidar, at the age of fifty-eight, published her first pieces of flash fiction. More than seven years later she has published over a hundred stories in…