futuristic stories John Leahy medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated Monday, October 20, 2025 Do You Dream Of Oil? by John Leahy <i>Lance and his friend Kai attend a speed dating event in a world where humanity is undergoing a mysterious biological transformation.</i><br><br>The subway car smelled faintly of burnt plastic and overripe bananas. <br><br>That wasn't unusual. New York had been like that for at least six months - since the Change began accelerating. Officially, it was called <i>the Organic Transition</i>, a phrase that sounded like a Wh… Read more Labels: futuristic stories John Leahy medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated 17 comments:
Chris Reid novellas Pushcart nominated real life stories Monday, August 4, 2025 Graveside by Chris Reid <i>David, an Israeli in New York, is captivated by visiting IDF soldier Amit, but will their intercontinental romance withstand the new war? </i><br><br>Amit was lost. Gone. I must come and find her. Yair kept saying those words over and over. "David, David!" Shouting across the wire. No need for an international connection the way the man's voice crashed into my ear. "You awake? I need you … Read more Labels: Chris Reid novellas Pushcart nominated real life stories 106 comments:
David Serafino fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated Monday, July 21, 2025 Migration Season by David Serafino <i>Ten-year-old Ella's body starts developing in a surprising way.</i><br><br>Ma's been burning incense and chanting, but the bumps aren't going away. At first they itched, but now they're big and burny and the only relief is to rub them against the doorjamb, a tree or the rusty aluminum siding on our doublewide. The skin oozes pus. If it doesn't get better, Ma swears she'll take me to a… Read more Labels: David Serafino fantastic stories medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated 21 comments:
funny stories Jan Allen medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated Monday, June 2, 2025 Ms. Congeniality by Jan Allen <i>A sassy and sexually charged senior citizen takes a singles trip to New York City, with the hope of catching Husband #6.</i><br><br>The glossy paper pinned to the bulletin board at our public library advertised: "Weeklong Bus Tour to New York City for Single Senior Citizens." This sounded like the perfect way to find a new boyfriend, maybe even another husband. Husband #5 died in 2021 and I haven&#… Read more Labels: funny stories Jan Allen medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated 17 comments:
Marie Anderson medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Monday, April 28, 2025 Path of Combustibility by Marie Anderson <i>Reformed troublemaker Nomar and his wife Maria move into the suburbs and struggle to get on with the neighbours.</i><br><br>I'm not a badass anymore. Maria changed me. <br><br>We'd met in a creative writing class at the city junior college. Maria got the top grade in the class. I got the second highest, thanks to her help. It was the first <i>A</i> I'd gotten since fourth grade. Fourth grade was when my dad wen… Read more Labels: Marie Anderson medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 27 comments:
George Nevgodovskyy long stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Monday, January 6, 2025 The Cracks in Everything by George Nevgodovskyy <i>Schoolgirl Jackie is frustrated about being kicked out of her favourite teacher's classroom because of a dead rat, and starts to see cracks in the façades put up by the adults in her life.</i><br><br>The smell hit us the moment we entered our classroom on Monday morning - like my socks if I left them in my bag for a few days after figure skating practice. And that wasn't the only strange thing. Ms. K… Read more Labels: George Nevgodovskyy long stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 7 comments:
long stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Rozanne Charbonneau Friday, October 18, 2024 The Blooms of Wisteria by Rozanne Charbonneau <i>In the Italian Cinque Terre, old man Attilio is determined to resist the advances of Signora Silvana Barletta.</i><br><br><b>Liguria, April 2005</b><br><br>Attilio stands under the pergola on his terrace. The vines droop with cascades of wisteria, their petals fragrant with honey and musk. He breathes in and feels richer than any duke. Yesterday, he devised the most devious plan. It is of utmost importance to protect his f… Read more Labels: long stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Rozanne Charbonneau 17 comments:
futuristic stories June D Wolfman Pushcart nominated short stories Wednesday, August 28, 2024 The Memory Transfer by June D. Wolfman <i>Julie and her dying mother consent to a new medical procedure that allows them to transfer a memory to each other.</i><br><br>I come to the hospice with my knees shaking - a single memory. My mother and I would be transmitting a single memory to one another before she died. It is part of a new service by a nurse with an AI chip implanted in her brain. <br><br>My mother adjusts a pillow at the small of her back. She… Read more Labels: futuristic stories June D Wolfman Pushcart nominated short stories 74 comments:
Cotton O'Connell futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated Monday, June 10, 2024 CupidAI by Cotton O'Connell <i>A new AI trained on intimate personal data matches an odd couple, who must navigate their way through an awkward first date.</i><br><br>A man and woman are having dinner together for the first time in a Peruvian restaurant. She sips sangria and eats a ceviche appetizer, and he tries to catch the waitress's eye to order a second beer. The restaurant is upscale and overpriced - not what she would have chos… Read more Labels: Cotton O'Connell futuristic stories medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated 10 comments:
Chloe Hart medium length stories Pushcart nominated real life stories Wednesday, May 29, 2024 Where the Sun Sets by Chloe Hart <i>18-year-old Noelle is stuck in small-town Georgia caring for her little sister and their depressed mother, when she finds out her best friend Jenny is leaving for Miami.</i><br><br>It was the last day of my senior year of high school, and the first day of sticky summer vacation. Sticky is a word I use for the small-town Georgia air and my little sister's fingers. On the bus ride home, I sat next to my be… Read more Labels: Chloe Hart medium length stories Pushcart nominated real life stories 8 comments:
medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Sarah Banks Friday, May 10, 2024 Origin Story by Sarah Banks <i>Emily reflects on her reasons for becoming a nurse, and searches for meaning in her job. </i><br><br><i>I push morphine to pay my mortgage</i>. <br><br>The thought had bobbed around Emily's mind more than once, but it settled there this morning - the first time it showed enough gumption to stake out its own space. There were two milligrams of morphine in each milliliter of saline, and she pushed the colorless solution … Read more Labels: medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Sarah Banks 14 comments:
pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories short stories Stephen Myer Friday, April 12, 2024 The Blue Country by Stephen Myer <i>A sorrowful man shares his surreal recurring vision of the Blue Country.</i><br><br>I sit beside sorrow heading crosstown, eyes searching for the address through iridescent drops that pelt the windshield. I depart the bus and climb the steps of a brownstone. A woman answers the door. She wears a black, avian print dress that conforms to her svelte body. Where have I seen her before? Perhaps she is the doctor… Read more Labels: pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories short stories Stephen Myer 20 comments:
Karthik Krishnan medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Friday, December 15, 2023 Born Again by Karthik Krishnan <i>Meenal submits to the Maharishi's revenant ritual, and finds herself desiring nothing more than companionship. </i><br><br>The final day of the initiation was everything that her sister had warned her about. Meenal was killed slowly. Her sister had missed giving her the finer details. But as she stood before the Maharishi, his thumbnail swatting the air around her purple-veined neck, Meenal felt it: her… Read more Labels: Karthik Krishnan medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 8 comments:
Claire Wilcox long stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Friday, October 6, 2023 Vipassana Romance by Claire Wilcox <i>A 47-year-old divorcee attends a New Mexico meditation retreat to try to come to terms with her emotions; by Claire Wilcox.</i><br><br>Even with my eyes closed, I can see him. Jeff. <i>Jeff</i>. That's his name, I guess. Before I saw Jeff on his tea mug, he was just <i>him</i>. I've been zoomed in on him since the first moment of the retreat, three days ago. He picked the cushion next to me in the hall, and now...… Read more Labels: Claire Wilcox long stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 7 comments:
medium length stories ML Rubin pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Friday, September 1, 2023 The Road by M. L. Rubin <i>In rural Northamptonshire, world-weary Lydia is visited by a man she has met but once, who proposes to take her to build a new life in Canada, in this story by M. L. Rubin inspired by characters from a D.H. Lawrence tale.</i><br><br>"Geoffrey and Lydia kept faith one with the other."<br><br> D.H. Lawrence, <i>Love Among the Haystacks</i><br>Geoffrey rose well before dawn, eager to be off before anyone in his family w… Read more Labels: medium length stories ML Rubin pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 8 comments:
Chitra Gopalakrishnan criminal stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated short stories Monday, May 29, 2023 A Spoonful of Cloud by Chitra Gopalakrishnan <i>Chitra Gopalakrishnan's character describes the sublime experience of enjoying a rare Indian delicacy, and tries to learn its secrets - while harbouring a secret of her own.</i><br><br>It is a fugitive pleasure. <br><br>I talk of the act of swallowing intact a single, sweet blob from a frothy landscape of milk foam, without moving it around it in my mouth in any way. <br><br>And of polishing off an entire clay pot in t… Read more Labels: Chitra Gopalakrishnan criminal stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated short stories 6 comments:
creepy stories futuristic stories Joe Jablonski medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated Monday, April 24, 2023 Absolute Zero Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry by Joe Jablonski <i>An intergalactic delivery man spends decades in stasis with a robot looking after him, becoming increasingly detached from the beings he sees en route; by Joe Jablonski.</i><br><br><b>ONE</b><br> I wake up on a planet covered in fire. <br><br>For the first few seconds I feel nothing. I see nothing. I'm all alone: a void floating within a void. <br><br>It's everything I've always hoped death would be. <br><br>My stasis pod opens wi… Read more Labels: creepy stories futuristic stories Joe Jablonski medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated 4 comments:
John RC Potter medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Friday, March 31, 2023 Ruth's World by John RC Potter <i>In Huron County, early 1910s, eight-year-old Ruth navigates the freedoms and perils of farm life; by John RC Potter.</i><br><br>It was a Saturday morning in late spring in Tuckersmith Township. The air was moist and fresh with the promise of a renewed world. It seemed to Ruth that God had taken a paintbrush and with two broad strokes - one of deep green, the other of cool blue - had created the earth and the… Read more Labels: John RC Potter medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories 12 comments:
long stories Pushcart nominated real life stories Robert E Donohue Friday, September 9, 2022 Love, In Time by Robert E. Donohue <i>A self-assured woman seeks adventure in sex, despite the admonishment of her loyal best friend - but what happens when she wants to hold down a relationship? By Robert E. Donohue.</i><br><br>It all changed the night I told Joey I'd slept with another man. I said that my cheating had occurred once, last Wednesday, when it took place often, over several months. Joey glared, then mumbled something about a c… Read more Labels: long stories Pushcart nominated real life stories Robert E Donohue 23 comments:
medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Rozanne Charbonneau Monday, August 29, 2022 The Train to Modena: Suzanna's Story by Rozanne Charbonneau <i>Suzanna visits her Italian friend, but cuts the visit short to hide an indiscretion, and gets sexually harassed on the train back to Paris; this is the first instalment of Rozanne Charbonneau's award-nominated trilogy.</i><br><br><b>August, 1982</b><br><br>I wake in the night to fingers stroking the flesh of my inner thigh. <br><br>So do you want to go again? Let me touch your lips, let me kiss your hair. Don't rush so fa… Read more Labels: medium length stories pick of the month Pushcart nominated real life stories Rozanne Charbonneau 13 comments:
