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Kudzu CafƩ

KC Reedy | Posted 05.24.2013 | Fifty
KC Reedy

The calendar on the wall near the front door said it was late May. The kudzu on the mountain behind the cafƩ was as thick and as luxurious as could ...

Just One Night

Caryn Coyle | Posted 05.22.2013 | Fifty
Caryn Coyle

She sits crossed legged; her camel hair slacks have stains on them. Her hair floats in old lady wisps on her skull, which is prominent. My mother we...

The Tryst

Catherine Moore | Posted 05.21.2013 | Fifty
Catherine Moore

It all started at Ron Mercer's retirement party. I had been sitting on a barstool at the Rosewood Inn with Mary, my best friend and co-worker, watchin...

Ben Franklin Is Back

Debbie Lev | Posted 05.20.2013 | Fifty
Debbie Lev

Spring arrived; it's about time! The snow is gone and it's time for sunny days and warm nights. Sadly, on this day, April 1, 2013 the weather was not...

The Widow Of Loreto

Page Lambert | Posted 05.17.2013 | Fifty
Page Lambert

As it turned out, the baby created itself without permission from either of them, announcing its existence in subtle ways after they returned from the...

The Weight Of A Feather

Judy Croome | Posted 05.16.2013 | Fifty
Judy Croome

Moyra Kincaid's bantam cock, Apollo, greets the dawn every morning with a cry far bigger than one would expect from such a little bird. On her eighth...

Featured 50 Fiction: The Unfortunate Assumptions Of A Glamorous Woman

Tony Wayne Brown | Posted 05.15.2013 | Fifty
Tony Wayne Brown

Marquessa was a woman so unique that as she walked down Via Regina Margherita to the subway station, each man's head rotated in her direction; eyes fo...

Featured 50 Fiction: Bethany Allison Sanford

Paul Cohn | Posted 05.14.2013 | Fifty
Paul Cohn

Darkness surrounded the ranch buildings. From within the house a lantern's feeble light shone through an open door and window. In this late hour the l...

Featured 50 Fiction: WTF! Watch The Face!

Mon J Gabriel | Posted 05.13.2013 | Fifty
Mon J Gabriel

It was the tingly glow of that December morning that awoke him from his daydream in his seat on a bus going to work. Oblivious to the others who were ...

Featured 50 Fiction: Reading Mother

Patricia Abbott | Posted 05.10.2013 | Fifty
Patricia Abbott

"Well, of course, you can read," my father said. It was two days after my tonsillectomy and the boredom of my sickroom led to this discovery. He barel...

Featured 50 Fiction: Georgia Hill Road

Elissa Ambrose | Posted 05.09.2013 | Fifty
Elissa Ambrose

Clamped on the steering wheel, one hand is at noon, the other at six, and with a flick of the wrists you veer left off Old Grove onto Georgia Hill Road.

Featured 50 Fiction: The Crush

Tracy James Jones | Posted 05.08.2013 | Fifty
Tracy James Jones

He touched me. Not in any way lascivious or anything. Just a simple soft brush across and down my shoulder in acknowledgement that he had seen me. No words were spoken. Just the touch. I loved him for that. I always had...

Featured 50 Fiction: In The Cold

Ronald Alexander | Posted 05.07.2013 | Fifty
Ronald Alexander

In this part of the country, winter had a way of sneaking up on one, killing the light, freezing the air and blanketing the naked trees in a leaden sh...

Featured 50 Fiction: Animal Truths

Rebecca Coffey | Posted 05.06.2013 | Fifty
Rebecca Coffey

For at least 1500 years, clans of reindeer-herding and reindeer-following people roamed up and down the Yamal peninsula of northwestern Siberia, relat...

Featured 50 Fiction: Hello Henry

Diana Friedman | Posted 05.06.2013 | Fifty
Diana Friedman

Hello Henry, is that you? Sorry, the sign-up sheet said you were six and you don't quite look... well, it's just those teeth. No, no, no, not a proble...

Featured 50 Fiction: Walk With Dad

Kimann Schultz | Posted 05.21.2013 | Fifty
Kimann Schultz

My father was a German-Ukrainian immigrant, a laborer who had married and in due course produced three daughters. Having weathered wars and oceans lik...

Featured 50 Fiction: Mary, Mary

Joan Wilking | Posted 05.01.2013 | Fifty
Joan Wilking

What MaryAnne remembered most vividly about those last few minutes alone in the fortune teller's stall was the smell, a sickening mixture of cheap per...

Featured 50 Fiction: Life Among The Bean Bugs

D.V. Wesselmann | Posted 04.30.2013 | Fifty
D.V. Wesselmann

-1- Helen Isabel Waldenschmidt was dead, and she didn't look like herself. Her face was as yellow as chicken skin fresh from the freezer. Circus ...

Featured 50 Fiction: My Blindness Is Its Own Reward

Rich Seeley | Posted 04.29.2013 | Fifty
Rich Seeley

I have made my bed in darkness -- Job 17:13 Nobody here is from here. That is what I like about LA. It is a good place to be anonymous. You can live ...

Featured 50 Fiction: The Vintage Lamp

Roger Marsh | Posted 04.27.2013 | Fifty
Roger Marsh

Most folks in town described Anita Perkins with peculiar detail. A few could talk about Anita for up to three hours without repeating a story, many co...

Featured 50 Fiction: River Road

Ruth Blank | Posted 05.23.2013 | Fifty
Ruth Blank

I'm already late to open the shop when I see that there's a police barricade down the road; sheriff's cars with swirling lights are parked at odd angl...

Vive La Prom Revolution!

| Posted 03.12.2013 | Teen

This is a regular column featuring original poetry and fiction by and for teens, provided by Figment, the online community writing site for young read...

'How To Be Popular In 10 Steps'

| Posted 03.01.2013 | Teen

This is a regular column featuring original poetry and fiction by and for teens, provided by Figment, the online community writing site for young read...

'What My Hair Cut Made Me Realize About Myself'

| Posted 03.01.2013 | Teen

This is a teen-written article from our friends at Teenink.com. By NicoleG, Woburn, MA As I sat in the passenger seat of my mother's car, stroki...

From Oral Fixations to Metaphysical Pimples: 'Skin'

Allison Kade | Posted 04.21.2013 | Books
Allison Kade

This is the story of how I became omniscient. I wouldn't have become all-knowing in the first place if not for a nonverbal understanding that led to an oral fixation, and adultery that led to a haircut that influenced another haircut.