Featured Fiction
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"All the Wars"
by Jamie Gill
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"Bucket"
by Christopher Nicastro
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"Eating Flowers"
by Sarp Sozdinler
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"The Gentlelady from Texas"
by Jon Pyatt
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"STRETCH"
by Nick Black
Her Scent
by Diane Douglas
“The incense of simmering figs, lemon, rose water, and memories filled my kitchen and brought me peace.”
Umbra
by Tiffany Jimenez
“I had been pre-conditioned during the procedures to understand that I could not be seen or felt by the living unless they were prone to seeing phantasms.”
STRETCH
by Nick Black
“All in all, Cecil had never felt worse in his life.”
The Gentlelady from Texas
by Jon Pyatt
“Inside the chamber, all that remained of Lucinda Taylor Jackson was a suitcase, a bent congressional pin, and one pink pump.”
Ad-lib
by Todd Easton Mills
“There was a sense that someone was in charge, an irritable engineer, perhaps, sitting in a control booth with circuits spliced extemporaneously across time.”
Just Give Me a Sign
by Sam Szanto
“Dev visited Gaynor through freeze and blossom, never quite planning it, the way you never plan to wake up in the morning.”
Meissen and Crystal
by Fran Blake
“You heard the howls like the woman locked in the tower in Jane Eyre. ‘Was she mad?’ you asked ‘or did she go mad?’”
Leftovers of Being
by Saqib Farouk
“This is what great art is about: Save yourself and you save us all.”
Autumn Sonata
by Zary Fekete
“The tangles were tough and the tugs of the brush were hard, but that wasn’t what brought the tears.”
Plumi Moos
by Shauna Friesen
“Weeks at a time pass without Loretta recognizing me, and when she finally does call me by Allister and allow me inside, the house is so full of gnats I could bite mouthfuls of them out of the hot air.”
The Argyle presents…
The Sheep Are Nervous
A Virtual Fiction (Micro)Chap by Paul Allatson
Writer Paul Allatson offers up three striking pieces of short fiction in his virtual (micro)chap The Sheep Are Nervous—all poignantly and amusingly human. YOU MUST READ THIS!!!
This mini-chap will vanish into the ether upon publication of The Argyle’s fourth issue in July 2024. Read NOW before it disappears.
