06/09/2024
The car screeched as a branch fell heavily upon the roof. I lunged forward, burying my head in a warmth familiar, whimpering. —DENTED ROOF by Hemanyq Vashistha in case you missed it
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06/09/2024
Shivering from bloodloss and fasting, she lies on white sheets—the monster, razor-tongued, cold-eyed, who darkened my childhood, who binds me still. —SHIVER by Amita Basu
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05/09/2024
I read their nametag. Their name was different five years ago. —BARISTA by Alyx Gilbertson in case you missed it
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05/09/2024
My mother gazes across the kitchen table toward my father’s empty chair. He left her months ago for someone else.—BECAUSE OF YOU by Jennifer Mills Kerr
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04/09/2024
If you are in the states anywhere near Salem, Massachusetts, this weekend, we hope you'll join us for MICRO MARVELS on Saturday at 1. We're teaming up with literary journal Molecule for a fast-moving event. We're also meeting up for coffee in Salem that morning. Email [email protected] for details!
04/09/2024
At seventeen, I had not yet bloomed, had barely been kissed. So after Drama class, when the conversation turned to dating and lust, and Miles pronounced girls’ bras “confounding,” I offered myself up for him to practice undoing my bra, one handed.—DYKE REFLECTING by Amanda Le Rougetel
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes/dyke-reflecting
03/09/2024
Everything dad cared about was within a hundred miles of his birthplace—it took my wedding before he took to the sky. “Wasn’t bad. Basically a bus.” —"Before Aphasia" by Zebulon Huset in case you missed it
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03/09/2024
The only way to discover this was to investigate it myself, by crawling inside, sitting cross-legged next to the skim milk, and shutting myself in. The light turned off.—THE FRIDGE by Baylee Less-Eiseman in case you missed it
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03/09/2024
It’s just after 11 and already over a hundred degrees and this lady is kneeling by the iguana on this hotass parking lot ... —THE IGUANA by Dean Hel
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02/09/2024
My father took the cane in his right hand, my arm in his left. Most of our guests hadn’t seen me in my new, less-able body. —HERE COMES THE ... by Regina Beach in case you missed it
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02/09/2024
We looked at each other, at him. We missed the point. “You can support each other, so no one falls.” —THE ACTIVITY by Krista Hanley, Fall Contest 2023 Editor's Pick, in case you missed it
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/the-activity
02/09/2024
Racing into the spotlight, I trip on my untied shoelaces, hurtle through the air in terrified humiliation, bellyflop the stage, and slide headfirst into the orchestra pit like a helpless buffoon. —AUDITION FLOP by Corey Paige in case you missed it
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01/09/2024
But let’s make believe the gelatin caps are little space pods, where for a second or two the odyssey begins, and for a second or two I am on the mend.—"Space Capsules" by Tara Dugan Fall Contest 2023 Editor's Pick in case you missed it
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31/08/2024
"Why do you want to learn something you know you'll never use beyond that?" I asked. "It's the experience, Daddy," she said, as if she knew it all. —"Soaring Free" by David Chek Ling Ngo in case you missed it
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31/08/2024
Twenty-six 8-year-olds instantly mark me as fair game. I swallow hard and collect my wayward papers. —MISSPELLING by Matt Yost in case you missed it
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31/08/2024
We meet before our entrances to “Be Our Guest.” Backstage, it glows red. —"Role Reversal" by Kaia Preus in case you missed it
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30/08/2024
Our dungeon master announces that we have less than two minutes until catastrophic impact ends the game. —QUARANTINE D&D by Misti Duvall in case you missed it
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30/08/2024
Branches and leaves moving. Crickets and mosquitoes. Bats clicking. —SUMMER by John Yohe in case you missed it
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30/08/2024
After walking through tulip-filled Windmill Island, this tired-looking family is about to leave when the older woman in the group stops, points across the two bridges, and says to her family, “I know what that is now."—WINDMILL by Diane Payne
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/windmill
30/08/2024
Thank you WOW! Women on Writing and Ann Kathryn Kelly for interviewing our EIC Susanna Baird about Five Minutes!
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29/08/2024
I brace for the rending, for the sickening scream of pain. Idiot rodent hasn’t a hope.—CONNECT by Samantha Bennett in case you missed it
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes/connect-1
29/08/2024
Tears stung my eyes as city streets morphed into hushed country roads, as the bus driver drove further from home. —SUMMER CAMP by Jeanine DeHoney, Fall Contest 2023 Editor's Pick, in case you missed it
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/summer-camp
29/08/2024
I bounce the tennis ball, one, two, three times. I consider double faulting, because that’s what my brother wants. —MATCH POINT by Alyson Shelton
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/match-point
28/08/2024
When my daughter totters to me for the first time, I’m delighted. But at the Butterfly House, I realise she can walk away too. —CHRYSALIS by Sumitra Singam
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26/08/2024
She fetches the items, mission critical for the spell. She dances in the garden, chants, waves her fingers. —LITTLE WITCH by Emma Burnett in case you missed it
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26/08/2024
I crouch and climb over cleaning supplies, leaving the door ajar to cushion darkness. In cool air, I sit undisturbed with my dreams in the belly of our abode—NEW HOME by Bella Mahaya Carter, Fall Contest 2023 Editor's Pick
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/new-home
26/08/2024
Four years since I've seen my sister in person, and four months since I've seen my mom — or anyone—without a mask. —UNMASKED by Molly Freedenberg
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23/08/2024
We are happy when you publish with us and we are happy when you publish with someone else. We shout out your successes in our Newsletter High Fives - check out this month's and then send news of your recent successes to us so we can share them next month. www.fiveminutelit.com/newsletter
23/08/2024
One busker, guitarist, soundchecks next to me while I wait for my ex. He’s wearing crunched Ray-Bans and an uneven bowl cut. —"At a Café 2/14" by Gavin Garza in case you missed it
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/at-a-caf-214
23/08/2024
It is hot enough that the smallest of baby hairs stick to your neck, but the breeze picks up and the beer is cold. —SOUTHERN PORCH by Kirsten Reneau
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