Short stories published in 2014

Listing 178 stories.

After one of his best friends commits suicide, a sixth-grader exacts his revenge on the teacher whose sexual abuse led his friend to his death.

A young woman feels trapped in her own life, bound to her convict boyfriend and young son. The woman's worldly aunt encourages her to move away and start over.

A woman is employed by wealthy individuals to eat the sins of their recently deceased relatives.

A shattered family grieves their missing infant boy's unsolved abduction, and are haunted decades following the crime.

A man's jealous wife kidnaps any woman she thinks he shows any interest in to torture and murder in their basement. Deciding to finally put an end to this and escape the absusive relationship, the man poisons his wife and frees her most recent victim.

A girl visits Puerto Rico to bond with her grandfather, and they find that music brings them together. After she returns home to the US, the grandfather struggles to converse with her over the phone.

In a near future where vampires have taken over the Earth, a young woman who has ingratiated herself into vampire society struggles to remember what it means to be human. Vampires have taken over the earth and keep humans in camps to feed off of. A young human woman tries to become a vampire herself.

In contemporary Haiti, a 17-year-old girl with aspirations to attend university in the U.S. is entangled in a multi-national kidnapping plot that changes her family forever.

A millennial in an unnamed American city recruits his girlfriend, his friend, and his friend's Home Depot coworker on a mission to circle around the moon.

An unhappy housewife lives the same morning over and over again until finally giving in to the darkness inside.