Open Journal Short Stories
Many thanks to all the short story writers who continue to submit to Superlative.
Here are the fantatsic short stories that we have selected for publication in our open journal.
If you would like us to consider your short story, please submit here.
Enjoy!
I Camp Alone Now
By Adele Villette
Virginia had received the most rain in decades that spring. The rapids overflowed with nature’s secrets, a ceaseless shouting — no need to whisper, humans hardly listen
The Sorceress of Mount Sangre
By Heather Whited
The first night after the funeral, barely twelve hours after burying his brother-in-law, he finds her in the living room staring out the window. An outline standing still in the dark. His eyes adjust and the figure takes the shape of his wife. The back of her head of curls, her hand draped at her side. A magical transformation that fills him with relief. It’s 3:00 and the cup of coffee in her hand is ice cold. A slimy film wavers on the top
When Habits Fall Away
By Yvonne Heavey
It was exactly half past five on a Tuesday evening. I was Prisoner number forty three in Sister Assumpta's study hall. The room squatted in the bowels of her private world, we were cut off from the main school by a long red corridor.
Through Winter's Veil
By Felix Bou
Kraków exhaled needles on the afternoon that three boys gathered beneath the last living gas- lamp on Świętego Tomasza.
Driving Under an Influence
By Gillie Easdon
"I'm really sorry, Sis. It's been crazy. I can't believe no one called you—I figur—"...
Katie's Tree
By Tristan Major
It was the summer I met Katie that the trees began to hum. Not everyone could hear it; it was mainly children who spoke of it, talking about the humming that started when the sky got dark.