Monuments

Short story by Primoz Cibej When you are a child, you never notice these things. It was the same with us. All we cared for was play and whatever it was we were chasing through the forest and across the clearing. Our worn shoes sometimes stepped onto the stones just so...

Maybe She’s Just Not a Cat Person

Short story by Anja Zupancic Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian is a short story that was published in The New Yorker in December 2017. The story follows the characters Margot, a twenty-year-old college student, and Robert, a man in his thirties, who go through a brief...

The Anniversary

Short story by Zala Jambrovic Hatic I sit down beside her and lean back against the cool stone. It’s a beautiful day, not a cloud in sight, and the sun’s rays provide me with enough warmth that I’m wearing only a deep-blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up to my elbows...

“Cockles! Mussels! Alive, alive-o!”

Short story by Veronika Mikec The sound of shutters being opened scared the crow sitting on the windowsill, where it had found shelter from the storm the night before. The town was waking up to a dewy September morning – it had been lashing down for a few days now,...

A Girl Named Hope

Short story by Patrick Gallaher Monument Valley, Arizona, 1903   The sun peered over the horizon, spilling light into the valley. As the pinks and purples of the dawn gave way to the harsh blue of the day, the shadows of the vast sandstone buttes crept away from...

Twenty-One Good Ones

Short story by Vanja Gajic It is Thursday again, which means that I have to get to school by 7 am for finals prep. One would think that in light of Easter festivities, we would be spared the torture, Jesus having undergone it for us and all that, but alas, here I am,...