Fiction
the long and the short
---


Tokyo Suicides
I will be late to work because someone tried to kill himself.
by Kaoru Tagawa



Previous Posts
- - - - - - - - - - - - -

Interior with View of the Ocean
In her profile he saw something so briefly, he wondered whether he’d seen it at all. He no longer saw the joy of a wife apparently content and much younger than he, but the bitter, withering glance of a mature woman too old to care.
by Marjorie Robertson


If Wales Win ...
He paraded naked in front of the mirror in his Mam’s bedroom, thinking, some lucky bint’s gonna have that for life.
by Vanessa Gebbie


I Am
Oh Dad, leave my drawer alone. Don’t scatter my life on the floor like trodden leaves. You won’t find her in there. That’s just words on paper. She’s ashes in a jar, in the ground.
by Alexandra Fox


Baths
On the night before I left home for good, my mother told me that she wanted to give me a bath. This actually wasn’t such a strange suggestion, coming from my mother—she has never quite had a sense of what normal mothers and daughters do. But I didn’t want a bath.
by Michelle Mounts


The Fiction 500
short stories in 500 words
---

Five Ways to New Haven (with ghosts)
by John Eklund

A Night to Remember
by Tom Gilmore

The Deal
by Neil Shea

The Failed Decree
by Jason Graff


Submit your story, short or otherwise
---


The Chekhov Collection
free short stories
---

In this series, Inversion presents the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

His work has been called the finest in short fiction. We invite you explore that conclusion for yourself with free downloadable stories in E-book format. This collection is made possible by our colleagues at Part of the Story, a former Web literary powerhouse.

Stories will be added regularly.