Short stories published in 2023

Listing 37 stories.

In the depths of his mind, a writer tries to uncover the autonomous, nefarious motivations of his own characters.

To fulfill her mother’s dying wish, a woman tries to find the right man to have sex with just once.

An elderly Korean woman finds a picnic basket in the back of her recently deceased husband's closet, bringing back a flood of memories that eventually help her find closure.

A man working at the Met is given an interesting—and daring—proposition regarding one of the museum’s artifacts.

As a man tosses out his old things during the pandemic, he thinks back to the lives he lived with them.

A girl who can see the auras of others struggles to make sense of those auras which she encounters as she grows up.

A babysitter faces a home invasion one night and discovers the truth about the baby she has been asked to protect.

A woman in her twenties struggles to recover the memories of what happened to her and her family at a young age.

A middle aged woman finds out shocking new details about her past while cleaning out the attic of her childhood home.