Category: Short Stories
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Mia’s Mockingbird by J Cope
Mia’s Mockingbird Jacqueline Cope is a fifteen year old student, with a passion for Holden Caulfield. She loves her record player and her friends, and sometimes they love her back. The records, that is. She sleeps and reads and occasionally eats. They gave me a prescription slip and a diagnosis, as if that would loosen…
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A Certain Death. Little, But Seemingly Big. – By L. Breen
“Help me,” she said. They were not even sixty seconds out from fucking. He swore he could still feel her hipbones underneath him, undulating with him, still feel her legs pinning his to the mattress, silky, two silky shackles. She must have just shaved, like she knew she was going to meet him tonight, a…
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FINALE: Just by P Kim
Phillip Kim was forced to go to Boston University. He studies English Education because he wants to be a drill sergeant but he doesn’t want to join the military. He is a preschool teacher and mocks his students regularly. He writes videogame plots, slam poetry, short stories and likes cheese. READ PART 1 HERE READ PART…
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The Bell Tower by L. Breen
On cold winter Sundays, between sermons, he liked to climb up to the top of the bell tower. He bundled himself up in his winter gear, always sure to include the matching hat and scarf set that a parishioner had knit for him, and made his way up the old wooden ladder. When he first…
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Just (Part 4) Short Story by P Kim
Phillip Kim was forced to go to Boston University. He studies English Education because he wants to be a drill sergeant but he doesn’t want to join the military. He is a preschool teacher and mocks his students regularly. He writes videogame plots, slam poetry, short stories and likes cheese. READ PART 1 HERE READ PART…
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Issue 3: January 2013
UPDATE: the latest issue is available at THIS LINK. PROMO: The third issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is coming January 1, 2013. Submissions click here.
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Pizza Diaries (Excerpt) – Short Story by M. Pitter
Front-page headlines are always designed and gauged to cause worry. This July 31st issue of the Wall Street Journal smacked readers with the quite climactic and apparent truth that “US Intervention in the Iran-Israel Conflict Brings Danger to American Homeland”. Photos disclosed by the Iranian government of their new Fajr-5D missiles aimed towards the Atlantic…
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Skin By L. Breen
As a young child, she spent the summers in Florida with family friends. She was continually overwhelmed by the amount of asphalt she found there, the meeting place for the neighborhood children being the hot black tar pool at the end of the cul-du-sac. Often, in the early mornings, they could find a sheath of…
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Just (Part 3) Short Story by P Kim
READ PART 1 HERE READ PART 2 HERE JUST “You should be one hundred percent by game time,” the nurse said. I thanked her, took some candy off of her desk, and hurried to the field to tell coach that I would be missing practice. I showed up without my football gear and he was…
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Meet Sa’ide by M. Pitter
Meet Sa’ide (Sigh-Yee-Duh). She lives here in Hebron with her family: her aunts and uncles and grandparents. She arrived here three days ago after sneaking out of Gaza and onto the canvas covered flat bed of a pick-up truck due east for Jerusalem. Through the elaborate networks of Israeli Defense Force checkpoints and the sharp…
