Short Story News
Short Story Library – Best of 2009 Collection – Branded Words is now Released
SSL celebrated our two years of publishing this past May and what a great 2 years it has been with having the honor of publishing some of the best short form writing on the web. We are now releasing our second volume of the best of SSL which includes the best poetry, micro, flash and [...]
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Micro Fiction
A Simple Tool – By Matt Mok»
She found the Colt 1911 in a box behind an old pair of snow boots. It was old, some of its metallic luster lost after years of storage. Her grandfather carried it at Normandy, shot Germans with it, served two tours with it strapped to his hip until he returned home. It was never fired [...]
Flash Fiction
A Little Pinch – By David Aquila»
“You might feel a little pinch.” That’s how it starts and I turn my head to the right. I never can watch the needle go in, but I look back as soon as she snaps the band free of my bicep and tells me to unclench my hand. The blood fills the glass vial in [...]
Poetry
R is for Reed – By Kristine Ong Muslim»
In college, I learned nothing
except humility, which I never
considered to be necessary.
I flunked an engineering mechanics
course twice and understood the
therapeutic properties of sifted
garden dirt and the premise that
all forces could act in all dimensions
if a professor willed them to.
The silence at the end of the corridor
was a vector quantity; it knew what
it wanted. I remembered [...]
Offbeat Writings
It must be love – By Rosemary Bach-Holzer»
She is such a vixen.
Who is? My car! Is that why ex-husband says she reminds him of me? Hmm… must remember to ask next time I see him. Anyway, back to this particular vixen in question.
She’s a real pedantic always-has-to-be-something-wrong-with-her automobile. Take this morning for example. She was low on petrol… all right! She was [...]
