If you’ve read Regal Comic Books, you know the pose. Hands pressed together, thumbs crossed, held just below the nose. With my left foot forward, right pointed out, my small … Continue Reading I am Promilla by T.L. Sherwood
Don’t eat that donut. If you touch that last donut, I swear to God I’ll throw this coffee in your face. Meg’s cup was little more than room temperature, but … Continue Reading Sizzle by Shannon Connor Winward
Arriving home, long office hours stretched out behind him, Akio sees light in the window of his flat and something clutches at his heart. Dread or excitement, it is hard … Continue Reading Hired Help by Sarah Evans
Underneath the sheets, my foot finds Dean’s. I press my little toe against his. “You okay?” he asks. “I’m worried about Finn.” He slips his arm around my waist. “The … Continue Reading The Mother by Kathy Renee Jeffords
I am five-years-old, and my favorite escape plan starts with Mom asking us kids if we want to run away with her. We all say– Yes! She says, especially with … Continue Reading Thrown Down and Banished to the Basement by Alice Morris
Pendleton and I were scooping peanut butter straight from the jar onto our fingers when the earthquake hit. Our mouths were full and sticky, so our shocked yelps came out … Continue Reading Pendleton on the Rise by Joe Baumann
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson is a Minnesota-based writer who works in multiple genres, reads multiple books at a time, owns multiple dogs, shoots multiple photos, and is often sucked right into … Continue Reading Fiction Contest Winner – Kathleen Mickelson
The staff at Postcard Poems and Prose congratulates Kathleen Cassen Mickelson for her winning story “A Shot in the Light”. We would also like to thank the groundswell of reader/voters … Continue Reading Fiction4ADay Contest Winner Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
I’ll be Oregon-bound, baby, once I sell this house. Once I sell this house and sign the papers and have a yard sale and pack up what’s too precious to … Continue Reading F4AD – A Staging by Bonnie Ditlevsen
He could hear the buzz of the fluorescent lights. That was the first sensation. Then someone calling his name, but he was dreaming. Wasn’t he? He was inside a dry … Continue Reading F4AD – The Impossibility of Time Travel by Bob Simms
God made the world in six days, on the seventh he made a mistake. He had made man, and separated the sea from the sky. He had distinguished life from … Continue Reading F4AD – How to Make a Mistake by Barry Charman
Mona picked up her boarding pass from the check-in kiosk, grabbed the handle on her green rolling duffle bag, and strode across the airy San Diego terminal. She admired the … Continue Reading F4AD – A Shot in the Light by Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
I have been waiting for this day forever. Not “forever”, I shouldn’t say that. I hate when words are used in a less than literal sense. I think that is … Continue Reading F4AD – Tempus Fudge-It by Robert Emmett
Here I am. In a box. Well, part of me is in the box, part of me is in the bathtub, and the rest is in the stock pot boiling … Continue Reading F4AD – Chrysalis by Jennifer Courtney
Xanthe Elliott is the alter-ego of a mild-mannered Maryland accountant. After counting beans by day, she seeks the meaning of life in the written word. While she pretends that she … Continue Reading Make A Wish by Xanthe Elliott
Kirk Nesset is best known for Ryan, his charismatic and well-traveled mini-Pomeranian, presently vying with Boo as “world’s cutest dog.” Nesset is also author of two books of fiction, … Continue Reading Backing Up by Kirk Nesset
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