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Category: Short Stories

  • A Call to the Public

    A Call to the Public

    At about the midpoint between our very successful first issue and the highly anticipated October issue, we are looking to revamp the In Parentheses brand by opening a call to new contributors for the IP Blog. We see the blog as a very important connection to our public that runs alongside the print quarterly, and…

  • Dream Burial – Short Story Submission by J. Alston

    Dream Burial – Short Story Submission by J. Alston

    Jonathan Alston is a young graduate from CSU: Sacramento’s Creative Writing Master’s program. He believes that words change the course of existence, nothing else really matters. Writing is working, and work is writing. *** Well that’s me Just a’drinkin’ off this bottle and a’driftin’ out to sea Well that’s me Just a’sittin’ here starin’ and…

  • Geography Girls – Short Story Submission by J. Hll (Must be 18+ to Read)

    Geography Girls – Short Story Submission by J. Hll (Must be 18+ to Read)

    Jack Hill is the editor of Crossed Out Magazine, an online fiction magazine (www.crossedoutmagazine.org), and lives in Northern California. *** From the last row of geography class I move my leg back and stare at the back sides of all the girls, the bra straps and underwear elastic, a side of their breast or ass…

  • The Last Reindeer Keeper – A Short Story Submission by Ryan Rising

    The Last Reindeer Keeper – A Short Story Submission by Ryan Rising

    Ryan Rising lives in Kansas.  His fiction is forthcoming in the African American Review. **** My first love tensed in the dusk when I held her hand.  I was the first boy to hold her hand and I think I must have impressed her by catching grasshoppers off the side of our old brick schoolhouse…

  • Issue 1: July 2012

    Issue 1: July 2012

    The inaugural issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is now available.

  • Submissions for e-Issue #1

    Hello Parenthians! (Let me know if you like that word in the comments). We are currently accepting submissions for the July 1 issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine! The reading period is OPEN until June 30, 2012. Spread the word! We’re interested in reading all you have to offer, according to the following guidelines: Poetry…

  • Non the Ready (Excerpt) – Prose Submission by S Estime

    Sarah Estime is a student en route to a communications degree at St. John’s University. She has been published by Canadian literary magazine What If?, the African American Review, online literary magazine Xenith.net, literary/photography magazine Burnermag, Words Apart Magazine, and Over the Counter Culture Magazine. She also write reviews for Blogcritics and Examiner.com. You can find more information about Sarah Estime…

  • The Oak on Windsor Hill (Excerpt) by M. Pitter

     (Voice Recording dated May 1884. Location: Soothsayer Plantation, Stann Creek, Georgia) I weaved ‘round de back of my land, passin’ underneath branched exhibitions of erect fruit. I let my machett dangle and swing from my grip. The yard snakes, them no easy: If you dash the heads off a million, one million more a-come inna…

  • Not a Big Deal (Excerpt) – Short Story by P Chatelain

    Not a Big Deal (Excerpt) – Short Story by P Chatelain

    Not a Big Deal (Excerpt) by Phillipe Chatelain Author’s note: Not a Big Deal tells the story of a tragic situation that serves as a catalyst to connect very different people. New friendships are formed and old friendships are questioned, but at what cost?