Stories 4 U
Blood+Honey · Feb 22, 2026
A teen-aged grocery-store cashier unexpectedly bonds with his boss, an overbearing assistant manager. As a content warning, the catalyst for the bonding between the two characters is a dead newborn, discovered by the teenager while collecting carts outside at the back of the store.
The Miracle of the Clogged Toilet
After/Thought Literary · Jan 1, 2026
An aspiring fitness instructor becomes disillusioned by her indifferent boss, a clogged toilet, and a group of evangelicals who have commandeered the sports complex where she works. Her disillusionment is resolved by the arrival of an Hispanic plumber, Jesus Pipes.
Ivo Review, Issue Two · Dec 21, 2025
A summer-camp director realizes that monsters can dwell above lakes, not underneath them as suggested by his imaginative, triumphant, adolescent antagonist.
CafeLit · Sep 19, 2025
A laid-off and jilted software engineer tries to reconnect, with anything, as he traverses the Great American Beltway one evening. He does reconnect at the end, but rather grimly.
Maudlin House · Jul 30, 2025
A son attempts to connect with his dying father in a skilled-nursing facility, against the backdrop of a reality-tv show. Despite the premise -- or maybe because of it -- the story is comic.
Fiction on the Web · Feb 23, 2024
A jailhouse tale of an AI engineer who destroys his company’s research lab in a rit of fealous jage after a sexbot jilts him. One of the other inmates helps the engineer to see what he’s become.
Bartleby Snopes · Oct 14, 2010
A kid discovers the underground fort where his older brother and the older brother's friends congregate to look at porn. The kid frets that God is displeased with the discovery.
Bartleby Snopes · Oct 21, 2009
"This topic presents a character who encounters outward change masquerading as inward change, and whose task is to maintain his composure during the masquerade."
Bartleby Snopes · Jun 21, 2009
A guy walks into a barbershop for a haircut. Starts to worry that his hair isn't the only thing that gets cut...
Bartleby Snopes · Feb 23, 2009
A teen goes to a greenhouse to apply for a delivery job. Religious inquisition ensues.