Tag: creative fiction

Witch Way Out

Ernestina Aggrey

I befriended a witch who detests mankind. ‘Men are rarely kind,’ Joy says often, and when she does, I resist the urge to tell her that mankind is just another word for human beings. She loathes corrections, and I don’t want to feel her wrath again. ‘The human race is Read more

Ernestina Aggrey

Ernestina Aggrey is a Black British aspiring writer. She is a law graduate and is currently working on her first novel. She enjoys reading novels filled with characters who are fictional but feel real. She was mentored by Cesca Major after a mentor-mentee match on Black Girl Writers. Her flash fiction is forthcoming in Sweetycat Press and Brittle Paper.

Cowboy in Red is Cheating

Jerri Jerreat

1: The Heroine A funeral is lace, carnations, pinks, and old flesh. For Emma, dressing hurriedly for a grandmother’s send-off, it was going to be a showdown. Emma frowned as she did up pearl buttons on her white blouse. The yellow shirt had been too happy; the pink, too gentle. Read more

Jerri Jerreat

Jerri Jerreat’s fiction has appeared in The Yale Review Online, The New Quarterly, The Penmen Review, The Ottawa Arts Review, The Antigonish Review, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, The Dalhousie Review, Room, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Everyday Fiction and in four anthologies: Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (World Weaver Press): Solarpunk Winters; in Nevertheless: Tesseracts 21 (Edge Publishing); and in a collection of international eco fiction, Solarpunk: Dalla Disperazione Alla Strategia, (Future Fiction). Her play was a finalist in the Newmarket National Ten Minute Play Festival, 2019.

Party at the End of the World

Adan Jerreat

The walls were as white as the cake box placed reverently on the mahogany oak dining room table. A few balloons in pastel green, violet, and lavender wobbled uneasily in the corners of the room like bubbles blown from a child’s toy. Cas felt the sudden urge to pop one. Read more

Adan Jerreat

Adan is a postdoc at Ryerson University in the School of Disability Studies. Their creative work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Qwerty Magazine, Soliloquies, and The Steel Chisel. Their debut novel, a YA fantasy entitled "The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass" was published with Dundurn Press September 2020. Adan lives in Kingston, ON, with their cat Dragon.

ICEBERG

Ivona Bozik

A bottle of beer smashed on the pavement. He sat there, light by a lamp-post, acknowledging no before and after; maybe, he secretly wished for another, regretting the spilled drink when he still needed it. Either way, he did not show much emotion; it was like a frozen image, seated Read more

Ivona Bozik

Ivona Bozik is a Slovenian that has lived in Paris, France for four years. She survives on meaningless jobs, nurturing herself with music and concerts, and reading in English as well as in French. "Even after trying myself in journalistic texts and running my own blog, it's prose and occasional poetry writing that stay the truest expression of my creativity and aliveness and of my attempt to defeat the absurdity of the world, as Phil Ochs would say, even though I can't expect to make it. My stories are concentrated on those fleeting moments of being that sometimes happen in our solitude, yet sometimes they offer us a door to another soul. My fiction is born out of those moments shared (or not) with another and of all the ambiguities that entails."

Caught

Jordan Hagedon

I do not know if I should cut my hair. It is very long. Some people call it obscenely long. It’s the color of wheat, and very often air dried so that it falls in irregular waves down to just above my thighs. When I brush it, the brush seems Read more

Jordan Hagedon

Jordan Hagedon is a fiction writer from Michigan, USA. She has stories in Flash Fiction Magazine and in an anthology by Stringybark Stories. Jordan is interested in the history of houses, old growth forests, and literature.

Her Unwitting Accomplices

Paula R. Hilton

As the automatic doors swished open, my mother began her search. The grocery store’s bakery was on our immediate right. Mom zeroed in on her target, pushing her shopping cart toward a plain woman in a peacock blue trench. To keep up, my short legs moved double time. Mom’s high Read more

Paula R. Hilton

Paula R. Hilton explores the immediacy of memory and how our most important relationships define us. Her work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and has appeared in The Feminine Collective, The Sunlight Press, Writing In A Woman’s Voice, Dear Damsels, The Tulane Review, and elsewhere. Her novel, Little Miss Chaos, was selected as a Best Indie Teen Read by Kirkus, and her first poetry collection, At Any Given Second, received a Kirkus star. She holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans.

Rebecca

Alicia Gatto Petersen

The landing at the top of the stairs sounded the loudest lament. Her fingers traced the expansion and contraction lines on the white-washed plaster walls as she took the first steps slowly, navigating the bowed and weakened wood on the stairs. The house and her family were accustomed to her. Read more

Alicia Gatto Petersen

Alicia Gatto Petersen’s life revolves around the shores of White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Her poems have previously appeared in Mothers Always Write. This is her first flash fiction publication and her first in the Feminine Collective. She is honored to be part of the collective.

The March on Washington

Sally Bellerose

“Call her.” Bo steers their late model Buick into the dirt driveway with one hand and flicks her Camel out the window with the other hand. “Regina worshiped President Kennedy. She won’t refuse a call today. Someone dies, you want a phone call.” It’s Bo’s week to chauffeur herself and Read more

Sally Bellerose

In her writing, Sally Bellerose loves to mess with rhythm, rhyme, and awkward emotion. Bellerose writes about class, sex, sexuality, gender, illness, absurdity, and lately, growing old. Her novel The Girls Club, Bywater Books, won many awards including an NEA Fellowship. Her poetry has been widely published and is featured in Lady Business, Sibling Rivalry Press. Bellerose’s current project, a book titled Fishwives, features old women behaving badly.