Story Sunday Archives

Fiction, StorySunday

A Backwards Story of a Backwards Man

The night A.W. thought he won the megabucks he flicked on a small lamp in the corner of the room and rushed a Yuengling from ...

by Litro | July 14, 2012June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Some Really Bad Things that Have Happened at Sea – for Context.

Before we even left port I found that both of the drawers underneath my bunk were filled with jars of pickled herring. Later, while I ...

by Thomas Chadwick | July 8, 2012June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Surprised by Joy

So I thought I’d cheer her up, take her mind off things, you know, lighten up the old load, no more ‘n that. I’m good ...

by Litro | July 7, 2012June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Bennett Paris — Exu’s Fedora

Franklin had left Jersey City during the real estate boom. They sold their house, he and his Brazilian wife, and with the profit, built a ...

by Litro | April 25, 2012June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Nana Howton — Interquad

My first cousin Daniel liked to sleep with his penis between my thighs when we shared his mother’s bed while she worked a graveyard shift ...

by Litro | April 20, 2012June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Craig Pay – Quarter Cherry Lips

“Quarter cherry lips,” the shopkeeper says. “Fifty-seven pence.” Henry looks at the tall jar of sweets. Then he looks at the pile of sweets in ...

by Litro | December 12, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Fay Franklin – Hunger

I don’t feel responsible for what happened. Yes, I was young and eager, and ambitious, and may not have thought things through sufficiently but, in ...

by Litro | December 6, 2011January 24, 2022
Fiction, StorySunday

Don’t Beat Yourself Up, Anton the Destroyer by Andrew Pidoux

Setting out from his home somewhere in the south of England, Anton the Destroyer boards a ferry to France. His face is a mess, due ...

by Litro | November 11, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Nilam Ashra-McGrath – Rouen

The February evening is sharp as I step out of the hotel. A walk through the cobbled streets of Rouen clears my head and brings ...

by Litro | November 5, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Gary Siebel – Kerouac Drank Here

I am a stinking drunk, old, dissolute, grizzled, unkempt; a writer. Like so many other decrepit desperadoes in search of their long-lost orgasm, the bars ...

by Litro | October 26, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Leah Griesmann – The Knothole

Haight Street smells like bong residue left on a beer-soaked couch overnight. The smoke from sandalwood incense wafting out of the Liquor and Vitamin store ...

by Litro | October 19, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Fiona Glass – Spark to a Flame

Nick felt a fierce surge of joy as he struck the match. He cupped his hand to shield the sudden flare, the hot tang of ...

by Litro | October 10, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Rob McClure Smith – Every Pitcher Tells A Story

It took the combined efforts of Rich and MacPherson’s maid to pour the little man into his clothing. They shuffled him out the door braced ...

by Litro | July 27, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Eden City

Nick drives the green-and-gold Gennaro Financial Recovery Chevy to the levee but, it being August, the levee is dry. The moment the name and address ...

by Guy Ware | July 20, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Pacific Littoral

The wind from the Pacific was stronger and cooler than the time of year suggested it might have been. Salt sea wind and hot sun ...

by Geoffrey Heptonstall | July 13, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Extract from “New York”, from the collection, So, Here I Am.

“New York” is Sabrina Mahfouz’s first ever piece of short fiction and is from a collection called So, Here I Am. Yeh so they shot him. ...

by Litro | July 6, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Dave Early – The Cold Front

Life seemed so much simpler to Gavrilovich Gikalov during his youth. The Soviet regime was liberating the third world against the tyrannical US and her ...

by Litro | June 22, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Liza Costello – In Kalamazoo

When Sofia and her granddad passed through the archway and into the square, everything was still under one big shadow. Her hand felt hot inside ...

by Litro | June 6, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Paige Sinkler – Brain Care

After a short quiz and an eye exam, the chubby middle-aged man in dark green coveralls inspected Hazel’s fuse box. His experienced fingers prodded gently ...

by Litro | May 16, 2011June 3, 2013
Fiction, StorySunday

Letters from Prague by Ruth Brandt

Hotel Koruna Opatovicka Prague 29th July 2009 Dear Damek, I am in Prague! Surprised? I am. I’m here for the weekend, till Sunday, arriving this morning. ...

by Litro | March 17, 2011June 3, 2013