June 20, 2025
bowl of cherries on a table with greenery around image - TEXT: Ice Cherries, Fiction, Tandy Malinak
Published by Tandy Malinak at June 20, 2025
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Ice Cherries

The storm’s coming was awful enough. The cherries would be ripening in a few short days, and the last thing they needed in this moment was too much water. But I couldn’t do anything about it. It would pass and leave whatever wreckage it chose to leave and I’d clean up as best I could.
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May 12, 2025
Published by Sue Cook at May 12, 2025
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The Gold Persimmon, a Book Review

The Gold Persimmon by Lindsay Merbaum is riveting and surreal. At times, I found myself so caught up in the characters' actions that it actually took my breath away, and had me yelling at my Kindle. This book was not what I was expecting from its title.
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May 3, 2025
Bright yellow roses surrounded by leaves - TEXT: Fragrance of a Rose, Part 1, Trelawny Welles, Fiction
Published by Trelawny Welles at May 3, 2025
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Fragrance of a Rose, Part 1

The dark windows gaze blankly out at her, and it occurs to Rebecca that in these months of looking at houses, she has developed an eye for the difference between those that are lived in, and those that are empty.
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April 30, 2025
pale pink rose with blurred roses in background - You Should Have Smelt the Roses - Flash Fiction - Sushma R. Doshi
Published by Sushma R Doshi at April 30, 2025
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You Should Have Smelt the Roses

You were a bright kid. You did well in school and college and in your free time you devoured books. In your mind you were part of the boarding school stories you read about. You were either the captain of the best House or the good girl who caught the petty thief amongst the girls.
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April 24, 2025
Shadowy image of framed photos along a wall - TEXT: Chandrika R. Krishnan, Fiction, Silence Can Be More Telling
Published by Chandrika R. Krishnan at April 24, 2025
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Silence Can Be More Telling

**Contains Trigger: Child Death.** Tara paused and looked at the photos along the staircase wall, feeling the waves of joy and pain crash through her. She allowed herself to look at them afresh, giving in to those feelings after so many days and months of avoiding them.
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