Quantum Eurydice - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Eurydice has never felt as if she fits in her own myth. It doesn’t belong to her, not really, because the story doesn’t end when she leaves it.
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The Colossus Stops - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com When the Colossus stops moving, the silence hits the island like a thunderclap.
The Mummy Gets Adopted - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Some days—today— / the mummy doesn’t have the spoons / to change her linen.
All-Sky Survey - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com With shaking hands, I touch the eyepiece and the field of view oscillates, streaks of light rushing by without names or fixed position.
Hikari - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com The house is long abandoned. The furniture is gone, and in Hikari's favorite room, there's little more than tatami matting left.
Caring For Your Damage Sponge - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Do not be perturbed if you notice any or all of the following symptoms: pallid skin, plaintive eyes, crusting around the orifices.
Caring For Your Damage Sponge - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Do not be perturbed if you notice any or all of the following symptoms: pallid skin, plaintive eyes, crusting around the orifices.
Submission Guidelines - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Small Wonders is looking for original flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), reprint flash fiction, original poems, and reprint art.
Fancy and Fish Hearts - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com The first night you stay, I weave a fish to remember. I sew bone through flesh, white and flaked, and think of you lying in bed, the tiny smile as I sneaked away to do my work.
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See You on the Other Side - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com I'm dying today. It's happening. It's okay. I didn't have any plans for the weekend anyway.
Dream the Sea - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Kai leans their bare abdomen into the rush of water and forms their front leg bristles into a basket. They strain food particles from the flow before cramming them into their mouth. Squelchy.
Gravity - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com When you need to feel roots grasping / Earth, when you must traverse muddy terrain / to feel fear leave your body, / think of sailors in their little boats
All of Us Witches - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com the crones gather at the / tea shop wearing funny hats / and brighter plumage than / birds of paradise
Your Good Neighbor - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com I tried not to curse under my breath as I opened the front door. Anything said aloud now was part of the exchange.
All My Mother Is - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com My mother thinks she’s a mermaid. Her doctor says not to worry. "Delusions aren’t uncommon."
When We Were Infinite - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com "The faster your ships, the smaller the universe. The smaller the universe, the more important it is to live harmoniously."
Complexity Captured - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com I am a bean counter in a beanfull universe / My success gauged by the smallness of failures
The Sovereign - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com On my cat’s tenth birthday / she produces with a flourish / one (1) weathered family tree sporting a royal seal
The Sovereign - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com On my cat’s tenth birthday / she produces with a flourish / one (1) weathered family tree sporting a royal seal
Waiting With the Milk - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com Whenever you’re away, I’ll go shopping and be struck that the use-by on the carton of milk I’m buying post-dates your return. Hell, I’ll think, if the milk can wait to see you, why can’t I?