Fiction Mag

Table of Contents

  • Editor’s Notes
  • Tinies – Short Shorts
  • Shorts – Short Stories
  • Novelites – Novellas
  • Biggins – Novels
  • Authors – Our Writers

Copyright © 2023 Fiction Mag. All rights returned to authors upon publication.

Girl Afraid

December 5, 2002 By Edward Morris

PDF Version In the front room, Phaedra Carter stares out the bay window of her aunt’s huge old rambling ranch house. The yard is a blasted heath of gray cracked soil, sparse yellow grass and pine straw. Above it, the ominous sky is three shades lighter gray than her eyes. Like sluggish blacksnakes shrugging off […]

Filed Under: Shorts

Mrs. Solester

November 16, 2002 By Thomas Ortega II

PDF Version Mrs. Solester wakes up at 7 am even though her appointment isn’t until 1:30 pm. She awakes alone and pushes herself out of the lonely bed. Beside herself, there hasn’t been another person in the bed for over fifteen years. Her loving husband had passed away unexpectedly, so they had no preparations. His […]

Filed Under: Shorts

Unemployment

July 13, 2002 By Thomas Ortega II

PDF Version Three weeks have passed, and still I’ve found no work. Three weeks my family has had to do without money, scraping by with the small amount left from my last job. I try hard, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Hopefully, today will be different. Today something has to happen. And if something […]

Filed Under: Shorts

Dragon Lore

July 12, 2002 By Thomas Ortega II

PDF Version Something odd happened yesterday. A human child walked into my lair. She had the scent of sweetness though, unlike the other humans who enter my lair. Their stench is usually the first indication that they have arrived. She hid behind my largest pile of gold in the beginning. I thought it odd, but […]

Filed Under: Shorts