Tim selects the best stories himself, based on his own criteria. The story with the highest average reader rating won’t always be picked! (You can, however, see the 25 highest-rated stories in the sidebar on the right.)
As with the Story of the Week, the editor selects the winning story based on his own assessment, not just on average reader rating. Story ratings may influence the editor’s decision, however, so vote away!
| SARAH FLICK: My Mom | October 17, 2025 |
| NICK DI CARLO: Waiting | October 09, 2025 |
| JOHN SINGH: Shared Loss | October 08, 2025 |
| MICHELLE DINNICK: Back and Forth | October 01, 2025 |
| BOB THURBER: Overdue & Outstanding Beauty | September 30, 2025 |
| DAVID RAE: Echoes | September 26, 2025 |
| AISHA ANDRABI: The Last Apricot | September 22, 2025 |
| MARY WANJIRU: The Last Bus Home | September 18, 2025 |
| KATIE HEMMERLIN: Hands of Time | September 12, 2025 |
| JOHN SINGH: Showtime | September 11, 2025 |
| ELLEN TOWNSEND: Mycology Reveal | September 02, 2025 |
| FIONA H EVANS: Birralyn means the sparks of the banksia over there | August 27, 2025 |
| LILIAN POMEROY EDMONDS: The Power of Touch | August 26, 2025 |
| JOHN SINGH: Skyward | August 19, 2025 |
| AJ JOSEPH: The Taste of Forgetting | August 12, 2025 |
| STEVEN LEMPRIÈRE: Rough and Tumble | August 08, 2025 |
| NINA BASU: The Offering | August 01, 2025 |
| MEREDITH McLEAN: Omiage | July 28, 2025 |
| JEFF HARVEY: Twin Brother | July 24, 2025 |
| SHIVAM PAILWAN: Paithani Shadows | July 16, 2025 |
| ESTELLE BARDOT: The Silent Companion | July 10, 2025 |
| MARC SIMON: Aspera Ad Astra | July 03, 2025 |
| LF KHOURI: Inheritance | July 01, 2025 |
| MATTHEW EICHENLAUB: Triggered by Internet Photo | June 25, 2025 |
| PAUL D'ARCY: Inheritance | June 17, 2025 |
| KATE E LORE: Helicopter Seeds | June 11, 2025 |
| TOMIKO NANASHI: Queue | June 03, 2025 |
| NINA FEINBERG: Questions for the Woman Crying in the Office Bathroom | May 29, 2025 |
| RACHEL TURNEY: I Grow a Metropolis | May 22, 2025 |
| NATHAN JONES: Inheritance | May 21, 2025 |
| TERY GALLAGHER: The Visit | May 16, 2025 |
| SUSAN HUNT: What Remains | May 07, 2025 |
| ALICIA COX: Eye of the Beholder | April 30, 2025 |
| MELANIE WINKLOSKY: Swimming | April 29, 2025 |
| ALEXA YASMIN FERRER: Dishwasher | April 23, 2025 |
| MARI KITINA: What We Left Behind | April 16, 2025 |
| DEBORAH TAPPER: Moonshine | April 08, 2025 |
| PIPER PUGH: Cincinn | April 01, 2025 |
| LYNN WHITE: Rock Pool | March 28, 2025 |
| LI RUAN: Strangers | March 18, 2025 |
| JENNY MATTERN: The Chanterelle Hunters | March 13, 2025 |
| GABE BONNEY: Images of You | March 11, 2025 |
| ALEXANDRA KEISTER: The Little Hours | March 05, 2025 |
| MICHAEL SAMUEL: Whispers of the Woods | February 25, 2025 |
| SHARON GERGER: The Gift a Medical Power of Attorney Bestows Upon You | February 24, 2025 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: How to Move Your Mother To Assisted Living | February 21, 2025 |
| PAUL D'ARCY: Still Life | February 10, 2025 |
| MILLIE SUN: The Human Legacy | February 07, 2025 |
| CLIVE OSEMAN: The Smile | January 27, 2025 |
| FIONA H EVANS: Duplicity | January 24, 2025 |
| JENNY MATTERN: Autonomy | January 14, 2025 |
| AMANDA LaMANTIA: Morning | January 10, 2025 |
| BOB THURBER: Shivering To Death | January 07, 2025 |
| SAM HALL: Shadowing | December 31, 2024 |
| JOHN HOLMES: Punctuation Sale | December 23, 2024 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: My Mother Dreams of Christmas Past | December 19, 2024 |
| VA WISWELL: Lovely Greece | December 11, 2024 |
| ROBERT LUDEMANN: Essential Worker | December 10, 2024 |
| CHERYL SNELL: Moving Day | December 05, 2024 |
| SARAH GANE BURTON: Abduction | November 27, 2024 |
| CHARLINDA BANKS: Spring '89 | November 26, 2024 |
| MATTHEW EICHENLAUB: Secret Regret | November 22, 2024 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Remote | November 21, 2024 |
| STEPHEN TILDEN: Knife's Edge | November 07, 2024 |
| BOB THURBER: Habeas Corpus Ipso Facto | October 28, 2024 |
| STEPHEN DOHERTY: Desert Heroes | October 23, 2024 |
| LEONIE GREGORY: Crunchy Sensation in Every Bite | October 14, 2024 |
| NISSA HARLOW: Not Everyone Likes Cookies | October 10, 2024 |
| ANGELA CARLTON: Whispers | September 30, 2024 |
| SANDRA JAMES: Clouds | September 26, 2024 |
| MARLA KRAUSS: Hope Lurches | September 20, 2024 |
| BOB THURBER: Marooned Notebook Entry | September 19, 2024 |
| ED WALKER: The Pilgrim | September 09, 2024 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Raked History | September 04, 2024 |
| MATT STRUTZ: In Second Place | August 28, 2024 |
| KARRIS RAE: Ever the One Moon | August 20, 2024 |
| RACHEL HAPANOWICZ: The Case of Upside-Down Carassius Auratus | August 15, 2024 |
| MEG POKRASS: Anniversary Gift | August 09, 2024 |
| BOB LUCKY: In the Course of the Investigation | August 01, 2024 |
| SAM HALL: Collaboration | July 23, 2024 |
| WILLIAM MITCHELL: Firelight | July 18, 2024 |
| LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Sporting a New Baseball Cap | July 08, 2024 |
| BOB THURBER: Surprise Ending | July 01, 2024 |
| TREVOR: Her Solution (a true story) | June 26, 2024 |
| LESLEY WARREN: Bracing For Impact | June 18, 2024 |
| JEZ POYNER: Twenty-minute ticket to thirty years hence | June 10, 2024 |
| BOB THURBER: Midnight Rendezvous | June 05, 2024 |
| CAROL REEVES: Imagination | June 03, 2024 |
| FIONA H EVANS: Samsara | May 29, 2024 |
| DAVID DEZELL TURNER: Re: Enforcer Academy Application | May 24, 2024 |
| JENNIFER LAWSON: Monday, Midnight | May 21, 2024 |
| JEZ POYNER: Twelve Weeks | May 15, 2024 |
| DOMINIQUE GÉLIN: I love you and nothing else | May 06, 2024 |
| JOANNA NORLAND: Dot-to-Dot | April 29, 2024 |
| NINA EVANS: My neighbor is the second coming of Jesus Christ | April 24, 2024 |
| CATE COVERT: Legacy | April 17, 2024 |
| JERRY WELLER: Flying | April 05, 2024 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: Happily Ever After | March 25, 2024 |
| RÂNA CAMPBELL: Sólarkaffi | March 20, 2024 |
| RON SCULLY: The Monument | March 13, 2024 |
| JOEL O'FLAHERTY: We Have Always Played with the Faceless Doll | March 08, 2024 |
| SHOSHAUNA SHY: Widowhood @ 72 | March 05, 2024 |
| DEBORAH TAPPER: The Keen Gardener | February 27, 2024 |
| KAI WANG: Early Spring | February 23, 2024 |
| CAROL TYMANN: Out with the Old, In with the New | February 15, 2024 |
| NICO CALVANICO: A Puddle on the Bathroom Floor | February 05, 2024 |
| CHELSEA UTECHT: Time is No Thief | January 29, 2024 |
| DEBORAH TAPPER: A Ring And A Letter | January 23, 2024 |
| GIULIETTA NARDONE: The Trip Of A Lifetime | January 19, 2024 |
| ADDISON HAMMOND: Emergency Contact | January 18, 2024 |
| TIM BOITEAU: Toys | January 03, 2024 |
| KHOP MÖRICKE: Cutting Edge | December 29, 2023 |
| DEBORAH TAPPER: Breakout | December 20, 2023 |
| MICHELLE WILSON: The Shape Shifter at 50 | December 13, 2023 |
| TIM BOITEAU: Starlight | December 05, 2023 |
| JANELLE SEABOCK: The Kite | December 04, 2023 |
| LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Keeping Up Appearances | December 01, 2023 |
| CHERYL SNELL: Anniversary | November 24, 2023 |
| KELSEY MATHIAS: Psychotherapist in Need of One | November 13, 2023 |
| MEG POKRASS: Medicinal | November 10, 2023 |
| BOB THURBER: Grandma Was A Child from the Black Forests of Germany | October 31, 2023 |
| CHELSEA UTECHT: Childhood Bravery | October 26, 2023 |
| ANGELINE SCHELLENBERG: Giant Silk Moth | October 20, 2023 |
| JONATHAN KOSIK: Desert Blues in a Minor Key | October 13, 2023 |
| DAN JOHNSON: 40 Acres Done Today | October 04, 2023 |
| JACK CAMERON: Remembrance | September 29, 2023 |
| EMILY PATINO: Is This Your First? | September 18, 2023 |
| KEITH J POWELL: Blink | September 15, 2023 |
| JOAN LEOTTA: Moon Teaches Resistance | September 06, 2023 |
| WAYNE GARRY FIFE: Bluebottle | August 16, 2023 |
| BOB THURBER: The Time of Our Lives | August 08, 2023 |
| BRIAN MAYCOCK: Monday Morning | August 02, 2023 |
| HANNAH BUB: I Wish You Hadn't | July 27, 2023 |
| JC PILLARD: I watch the bones sink to the bottom | July 18, 2023 |
| BEATRICE RAO: The Healer | July 17, 2023 |
| CHIDI YOUNG: Let Me Mourn | July 11, 2023 |
| BOB THURBER: Shadow Dreams (Another Misadventure of the Broken Boys) | July 05, 2023 |
| MIRANDA KESKES: The Buddy Bench | June 29, 2023 |
| LAURA BESLEY: More Than Sleep | June 21, 2023 |
| JANN EVERARD: Perennial | June 13, 2023 |
| HEATHER HAIGH: We Call it Home | June 12, 2023 |
| NINA MILLER: Mother's First Breath | June 07, 2023 |
| CHELSEA ALLEN: The Librarian and the Time Machine | May 30, 2023 |
| CAROL REEVES: Wisdom | May 25, 2023 |
| KELLI SHORT BORGES: Woman-ness | May 16, 2023 |
| LARISSA THOMSON: Postpartum | May 10, 2023 |
| ANDREW NOSTI: Pink Horizons | May 01, 2023 |
| JONATHAN ODELL: Body | April 28, 2023 |
| BOB THURBER: A Day at the Beach | April 19, 2023 |
| LIZ MAYERS: Party Girls | April 19, 2023 |
| CAROL REEVES: Closing the House | April 10, 2023 |
| TIM BOITEAU: Widowmaker | April 03, 2023 |
| DEBORAH TROWBRIDGE: Bees | March 31, 2023 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: Porch Pirate | March 22, 2023 |
| JACQUI TOWNSEND: The Waiting Room | March 14, 2023 |
| LAURA BESLEY: Vernacular | March 06, 2023 |
| MOF AFDHAAL: Sunday Afternoon in Ward C | February 24, 2023 |
| NIKKI DAVISON: The Invisible Girl | February 10, 2023 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: Postcards | January 31, 2023 |
| THOMAS MALLOCH: Murder in Fairytaleshire | January 27, 2023 |
| CAROLINE ASHLEY: Your Umbrella | January 16, 2023 |
| SUMITRA SINGAM: Egg and Soldiers | January 10, 2023 |
| RAN WALKER: Reunion | January 06, 2023 |
| BOB THURBER: The Lost Shepherd | December 28, 2022 |
| SWAPNA SANCHITA: The Dying of the Sun | December 19, 2022 |
| MICHELLE WILSON: Urban Legend | December 13, 2022 |
| ALASTAIR MILLAR: Consequences | December 09, 2022 |
| TIM BOITEAU: Chronometrophobia | December 01, 2022 |
| YOGITA KHANDGE: Brown, Black, White | November 25, 2022 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: Eyes | November 24, 2022 |
| DEIRDRE SMITH: Phantom Pains | November 18, 2022 |
| JA AUGUST: Nostalgia for a Small-Town Park | November 10, 2022 |
| FIONA H EVANS: A Halloween Tale | October 31, 2022 |
| JACEK WILKOS: Fear of the Dark | October 28, 2022 |
| DEBORAH TAPPER: October | October 20, 2022 |
| SAAIQA MALIK: Nature | October 11, 2022 |
| SARAH GRACE TUTTLE: What Dew Felt Like | October 04, 2022 |
| BOB THURBER: Before She Was My Mother | September 29, 2022 |
| JANELLE SEABOCK: Tangled Words | September 28, 2022 |
| SAM HALL: Written in the Stars | September 19, 2022 |
| JSP JACOBS: After the Forest Caught Fire | September 12, 2022 |
| BOB THURBER: I’ll need to do some dying before I’m done | September 09, 2022 |
| ANNELIESE A BOYD: Fingers and Toes | August 23, 2022 |
| WILL TSCHIRHART: Dreams in a College Town | August 15, 2022 |
| TOSHIHISA NIKAIDO: Life Outside Boxes | August 10, 2022 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: The Enormity of Small Things | August 02, 2022 |
| AMY TURNER: Baggage | August 02, 2022 |
| EVELYN SYMES: A Tropical Sky River is Meandering | July 22, 2022 |
| DEBORAH TAPPER: Butterflies | July 14, 2022 |
| GENE NEWMAN: The Survivor | July 08, 2022 |
| BOB THURBER: Poor Devilish Me | July 05, 2022 |
| NATHANIEL MELLOR: A Second Death | June 30, 2022 |
| AJ JOSEPH: Evolution | June 23, 2022 |
| ROSIE DOUGLAS: The Green Goddess | June 14, 2022 |
| BOB THURBER: Adrift in Timeless Affection | June 06, 2022 |
| PAULA HENRY-DURU: Tricksters | June 02, 2022 |
| ALISON BERNASCONI: Blue | May 27, 2022 |
| STEPHEN GALLAGHER: Bookworm | May 19, 2022 |
| SALLY SADASIVAM: Kite-Flying | May 17, 2022 |
| JENNY LOGAN: The Guest | May 09, 2022 |
| STEPHEN TILDEN: Trading Places | May 02, 2022 |
| JUDITH DZIERBA: Handful of Gravel | April 27, 2022 |
| JOSE JOEL ROBLES: A Distant Hope | April 26, 2022 |
| ROYA NOURAEI: My Suitcases | April 21, 2022 |
| EILEEN MARDRES: Beyond the Ordinary | April 12, 2022 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Scattered | April 05, 2022 |
| REBECCA J CUTHBERT: Emissaries | April 01, 2022 |
| AK COTHAM: Mendocino Headlands | March 24, 2022 |
| LEO VANDERPOT: Inventory | March 18, 2022 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Scents | March 07, 2022 |
| AUGUST VAN STRALEN: After the Flood | March 03, 2022 |
| BOB THURBER: A Writer's Monotonous Search for Meaning | February 28, 2022 |
| CHRIS MILLIS: Quiet Time | February 25, 2022 |
| LARINA WARNOCK: A Child Overhears | February 17, 2022 |
| GIULIETTA NARDONE: Gift From the Sea | February 10, 2022 |
| REBECCA CUTHBERT: Not Yet | February 02, 2022 |
| BOB THURBER: Ripples (Another misadventure of The Broken Boys) | January 26, 2022 |
| JOHN LOVELL: Hurt is Homeless | January 20, 2022 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: After My Mother’s Stroke, My Parents Refuse Assisted Living | January 20, 2022 |
| JENNA MANLEY: A Lesson in Botany | January 12, 2022 |
| TIM BOITEAU: Cherry Blossom | January 11, 2022 |
| LAURA C ALONSO: Aging Children I Am One | January 06, 2022 |
| SALMAN ANSARI: Point Price | December 29, 2021 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: At 84 You Keep Your Glass Half Full | December 24, 2021 |
| DEBORAH TAPPER: Fish Rain | December 15, 2021 |
| MAGGIE NERZ IRIBARNE: Homecoming | December 06, 2021 |
| BRIAN MAYCOCK: Passage | December 03, 2021 |
| SAM HALL: The Sun Also Drifts | November 24, 2021 |
| NAT PARSONS: A Bridle Tames a Kelpie Horse | November 18, 2021 |
| SAM HALL: Only a Minor Miracle | November 11, 2021 |
| NICK YOUNG: Haiku | November 02, 2021 |
| GARY PAUL BALLARD: Capers | October 28, 2021 |
| LINDA McCAULEY FREEMAN: The Two-Story House | October 20, 2021 |
| KATHERINE DARLINGTON: Rain | October 07, 2021 |
| CATHRINE GOLDSTEIN: The Man at the Door | September 29, 2021 |
| FIONA KAMAL: Moment | September 24, 2021 |
| MADELYN MARKMAN: Fuzzy Blue Socks | September 14, 2021 |
| KATHERINE DARLINGTON: Scent of Tears | September 08, 2021 |
| BOB THURBER: The Return | September 01, 2021 |
| JOSHUA ADDISON: OBstacles | August 26, 2021 |
| KATI BUMBERA: Gloom | August 17, 2021 |
| LAURA DOBSON: Mummy, Daddy, and Samantha | August 11, 2021 |
| CAROLYN R RUSSELL: August and All That | August 06, 2021 |
| KATHERINE GLEASON: Storm's Wake | July 27, 2021 |
| MARIE LITTLE: They all Take her Photo in the Lounge | July 26, 2021 |
| CHERYL SOMERS AUBIN: Grocery Shopping | July 20, 2021 |
| DEIRDRE SMITH: Takiwatanga | July 13, 2021 |
| RACHEL CANWELL: Where It All Became | July 06, 2021 |
| JIM LATHAM: Eight Blocks from Here to Home | June 29, 2021 |
| LAURA DOBSON: Dot to Dot | June 22, 2021 |
| BOB THURBER: Father's Day Again (For Sarah Kate 1980-2010) | June 18, 2021 |
| H.A. PIACENTINO: This Is Definitely the Last Time | June 10, 2021 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Turning Around | June 02, 2021 |
| SUNSET: Stone Romance | May 28, 2021 |
| TAWNIA COURAGE: Righteous Defiance, Newfoundland 1951 | May 17, 2021 |
| TRICIA SANKEY: Ashes to Ashes | May 12, 2021 |
| BOB THURBER: Bedtime Q&A | May 11, 2021 |
| MICHELLE WILSON: Demon's Windfall | May 07, 2021 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Stuck Switch | April 26, 2021 |
| MARILYN McFARLANE: Cancer | April 20, 2021 |
| N WEST MOSS: A man (not her husband) | April 12, 2021 |
| MAGGIE SEREN: Bella's Bang on Trend on Buttermere | April 09, 2021 |
| FIONA McKAY: The Water Carrier | March 29, 2021 |
| FELICIA SANZARI CHERNESKY: How to Comfort a Mountain | March 24, 2021 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: For Mike | March 18, 2021 |
| ANDRIN ALBRECHT: Elsewhere | March 11, 2021 |
| ROBERT MARKOVICH: Bonkers | March 02, 2021 |
| DAVID DEREY: Unsinkable | February 24, 2021 |
| MICHAEL ANTHONY FAGAN: Juniper | February 16, 2021 |
| JENNIFER FREED: I Call My Mother | February 11, 2021 |
| MARC LITTMAN: First Laugh | February 05, 2021 |
| BOB THURBER: Impressing an Old Flame at our 25th High School reunion | February 04, 2021 |
| KARALYN WAYNE: Roxana | January 26, 2021 |
| FINN BURNETT: Homecoming | January 19, 2021 |
| BEN MIMMACK: A Country Walk | January 15, 2021 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Home | January 04, 2021 |
| CMF WRIGHT: The Tragedy of P—k | December 28, 2020 |
| LD WATER: A False Hope | December 28, 2020 |
| ZOE J WALKER: The Gift Exchange | December 25, 2020 |
| JOSIE CELLONE: Consumed | December 18, 2020 |
| BEN MIMMACK: A Chip Off the Old Block | December 16, 2020 |
| DICK NARVETT: A Temporary Interruption | December 11, 2020 |
| CLAIRE NATALE: Playground | December 03, 2020 |
| LARISSA THOMSON: Let's Pretend | November 24, 2020 |
| DAVID HOLLOWAY: Extra Time | November 19, 2020 |
| NORIKO JAYASEKERA: Songs for the Light | November 17, 2020 |
| TRAVIS D ROBERSON: The Vagrant | November 05, 2020 |
| MARIA CARGILLE: Stress Turned My Soul to Copper and Steam | October 28, 2020 |
| ANNE CATHERINE VASSALLO: A feather and a boy | October 20, 2020 |
| MARY HAYNES: She Rises | October 14, 2020 |
| LISA MARIE LOPEZ: Every Tuesday | October 08, 2020 |
| LE ANNE WELDER: Swept Away in a Sea of Gray | September 25, 2020 |
| ROBERT MARKOVICH: The Boy In The Box | September 17, 2020 |
| RAN WALKER: Drowning | September 11, 2020 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Inbox Emptiness | September 03, 2020 |
| PATRICK YU: A Lost Moment | August 26, 2020 |
| DAN BROOK: Anti-Racism Haiku | August 17, 2020 |
| LINDA VIGEN PHILLIPS: The Lion and the Lamb | August 10, 2020 |
| GRAHAM ROBERT SCOTT: I Point at the Shadows in Lieu of What I Dread | August 06, 2020 |
| ERIC PERSAUD: Kneel | July 31, 2020 |
| CMF WRIGHT: Defined | July 24, 2020 |
| JENN LINNING: Plot Hole | July 13, 2020 |
| CHERYL CAESAR: Fate and Folding Laundry | July 10, 2020 |
| YASH SEYEDBAGHERI: Cracked Lives | July 02, 2020 |
| BOB THURBER: Eating Year-Old Frozen Wedding Cake | June 30, 2020 |
| KATE FELLOWES: Whodunnit | June 23, 2020 |
| THAD DeVASSIE: In Memoriam | June 18, 2020 |
| JAYNE MARTIN: Brothers | June 10, 2020 |
| BEN FITZGERALD: Smoothness Forever | June 09, 2020 |
| MELANIE MAGGARD: Still Thirsty | June 05, 2020 |
| BOB THURBER: Stop looking at your phone, waiting for the dead to call | May 29, 2020 |
| CASEY LAINE: First Blossom | May 25, 2020 |
| DANIEL CLARK: Start Over | May 21, 2020 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Our Good Luck | May 14, 2020 |
| LAURIE KUNTZ: Lessons on Electricity, or: When in Quarantine with a Husband | May 05, 2020 |
| JO WITHERS: Home | April 27, 2020 |
| BOB THURBER: Beneath This Braided Mess Of Meaning | April 22, 2020 |
| MARIA CARGILLE: Kith | April 14, 2020 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Beautiful Things | April 13, 2020 |
| CASEY LAINE: Survived by a Daughter | April 06, 2020 |
| DONALD A RANARD: ICU | April 03, 2020 |
| VERNAE COFFEE: Aging | March 26, 2020 |
| MELODY LEMING-WILSON: Offering | March 16, 2020 |
| CASEY LAINE: Winter's Child | March 12, 2020 |
| ALISON CARROLL: Holes | March 04, 2020 |
| BEC LEWIS: Wrong Room | February 27, 2020 |
| URSULA HOULT: How Long Do You Wait? | February 19, 2020 |
| AMANDA QUINN: Shelf-mates | February 14, 2020 |
| PONTIUS PAIVA: Palindrome II | February 11, 2020 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Your Pills | February 05, 2020 |
| LILLIAN: Tree Fall | January 23, 2020 |
| ANDY HEDGECOCK: A Sense of Perspective | January 15, 2020 |
| ADAM SIROVÁTKA: The Sheriff | January 13, 2020 |
| BOB THURBER: Why I can't go home again | January 08, 2020 |
| JON FAIN: Nature | January 03, 2020 |
| ALYCE CLARK: Unopened | December 26, 2019 |
| CHAD BUNCH: Holiday | December 16, 2019 |
| CHARLIE SWAILES: Assemblage | December 10, 2019 |
| MELODY LEMING-WILSON: Balloonman | December 06, 2019 |
| CAROL ANNE HARVEY: Unfinished | November 27, 2019 |
| DMITRI CHRISTOPHER: Shadows | November 21, 2019 |
| ELLEN HANSEN: Surrender | November 15, 2019 |
| RAYMOND SLOAN: Rain Dance | November 06, 2019 |
| UNA NINE NINE: Sundays | October 28, 2019 |
| MARIYA KHAN: Grocery Run | October 24, 2019 |
| LOUELLA LESTER: Like a Crow | October 23, 2019 |
| GRAHAM ROBERT SCOTT: The Macy's Mummy | October 18, 2019 |
| MARIA CARGILLE: No Returns, Exchanges, or Substitutions | October 08, 2019 |
| C CHRISTINE FAIR: Mother Always Asked Uncle Art to Babysit | September 30, 2019 |
| ROBERT HOEKMAN JR: Super, Dad | September 26, 2019 |
| ISLA ELIZABETH: Create | September 24, 2019 |
| SETH PILEVSKY: Immortal Moments | September 19, 2019 |
| LISA ALLETSON: Decay | September 13, 2019 |
| MAURA YZMORE: Roman Holiday | September 04, 2019 |
| HADLEY LEGGETT: Upside Down | August 26, 2019 |
| LISA ALLETSON: Discordant | August 20, 2019 |
| DINI ARMSTRONG: Breathing Space | August 13, 2019 |
| JOHN B. SINCLAIR: The Lucky One | August 07, 2019 |
| GB BURGESS: The Mark | August 05, 2019 |
| MICHAEL H BROWNSTEIN: When the Dark Rain Blew Away our Home | July 31, 2019 |
| LAURA BESLEY: Today is Like Every Day | July 24, 2019 |
| JUDY DeCROCE: Lily | July 17, 2019 |
| EVAN McMURRY: After the Water | July 11, 2019 |
| ADRIAN L COOK: 1000 Yards | July 02, 2019 |
| LAURA BESLEY: Her Glorious Face | June 24, 2019 |
| BOB THURBER: The View After the Climb | June 18, 2019 |
| LIONEL RAY GREEN: Bedraggled | June 12, 2019 |
| LAUREN EVERHART-DECKARD: At the Bottom of the Lake | June 07, 2019 |
| ALAN KEMISTER: Panhandler | June 04, 2019 |
| CHRISTINE NEDAHL: Last of the Lemons | May 31, 2019 |
| TRISHA RIDINGER McKEE: Forgotten | May 23, 2019 |
| LEX T LINDSAY: Close | May 15, 2019 |
| HANNAH WHITEOAK: Hitchhiker | April 30, 2019 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: Innuendo | April 23, 2019 |
| MAURA YZMORE: Ephemera | April 15, 2019 |
| RICHARD DAY GORE: Fifty-Word Story | April 05, 2019 |
| TANYA ZILINSKAS: Before the Fall | March 20, 2019 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: Anniversary | March 11, 2019 |
| RON. LAVALETTE: Almost There | March 05, 2019 |
| MIRIAM STEIN: Still | February 25, 2019 |
| JOHANNAH LIPSCHER SIMON: Click | February 21, 2019 |
| RYAN BORCHERS: Finger | February 13, 2019 |
| GRAHAM SCOTT: Only Thing Left to Do Is What We've Always Done | February 05, 2019 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: The Guardian | February 05, 2019 |
| ROY GOMEZ: Toms | January 30, 2019 |
| JO WITHERS: Jam | January 22, 2019 |
| JANET MACKIE: Pruning for Life | January 15, 2019 |
| CINTHIA RITCHE: For Karen, from Seward, Alaska | January 11, 2019 |
| RAN WALKER: Hunting Nightmares | January 04, 2019 |
| BOB THURBER: Season Greetings And Untimely Departures | December 25, 2018 |
| SUDHA BALAGOPAL: Last Tango | December 19, 2018 |
| TARYN NOELLE KLOEDEN: Last of the Old Ones | December 18, 2018 |
| GUY PRESTON: The last time I saw my brother | December 12, 2018 |
| TPA: Everything is fine. You? | December 04, 2018 |
| KIAH MOTT: Bad Like That | November 26, 2018 |
| JO WITHERS: Archived News Clipping (Filed Under Irony) | November 12, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: Dizzy Spells | November 07, 2018 |
| J BRADLEY: Closing the Loop | October 31, 2018 |
| KHALILAH OKEKE: Sabbatical | October 29, 2018 |
| STUART ATKINSON: Pooh Sticks | October 23, 2018 |
| KATHERINE DeGILIO: Understanding | October 15, 2018 |
| NANCY LUDMERER: Disconnect | October 12, 2018 |
| PATRICK MC LOUGHLIN: 6:35 A.M. October 5th 2018 | October 05, 2018 |
| ALEX MARKOVICH: Conversation with an Artist | September 26, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: The Summer of Sweet Mary (circa 1972) | September 17, 2018 |
| STORY OF THE WEEK: September 16 | September 16, 2018 |
| JESS L: Tripod Headstand | September 14, 2018 |
| JIM DOSS: I Close My Eyes to See the World More Clearly | September 03, 2018 |
| DAVID HOLLOWAY: Face | August 30, 2018 |
| MARK FARLEY: The Recollection Collection | August 22, 2018 |
| MAURA YZMORE: Pizza Night | August 16, 2018 |
| PETER VICKLAND: Utah | August 07, 2018 |
| HARRY DEMAREST: Downhill Bike Ride | August 02, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: Another Misadventure of The Broken Boys | July 25, 2018 |
| MELANIE CRANENBURGH: Lepidop-Terror! | July 17, 2018 |
| ROBIN LUBATKIN: Pyrex-Worthy | July 10, 2018 |
| KIRAN KAUR SAINI: Too Late | July 04, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: Side Effects of Radiation Therapy | June 27, 2018 |
| CARRIE BACKER: Dependency | June 19, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: A Dozen Irons In The Fire | June 15, 2018 |
| ALANAH ANDREWS: 22nd Century Jury (a reverse story) | June 14, 2018 |
| JO WITHERS: Spider Legs | June 04, 2018 |
| ROSEMARY BOYD: Camino | June 01, 2018 |
| PATRICK MC LOUGHLIN: The Art of Disappearing | May 22, 2018 |
| EILEEN BRENNAN McINTYRE: Missing River | May 17, 2018 |
| MARK FARLEY: Home Security | May 04, 2018 |
| UZAIR SHAHED ISLAM: Animal Control | April 25, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: The Night the News Came | April 20, 2018 |
| MELANIE CRANENBURGH: Bad Seed | April 12, 2018 |
| ANNE LINDLEY KILLHEFFER: Persephone Unearthed | April 06, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: Everything you need to know about my wife's Gaelic-Green/Irish-blue eyes. | March 30, 2018 |
| ARLENE ANTOINETTE: Sidewalks | March 20, 2018 |
| LINDA IRISH: Still Breathing | March 07, 2018 |
| SHARON CALKIN: The Garden Path | February 28, 2018 |
| BEVERLY C LUCEY: Gospel | February 23, 2018 |
| JO WITHERS: Eight Months Later | February 12, 2018 |
| BOB THURBER: Lasting Impressions | February 09, 2018 |
| GWENDOLYN JOYCE MINTZ: Sugoi | January 29, 2018 |
| ANNA ASCOTT: Chill to Serve | January 24, 2018 |
| ZURINA SABAN: Promises | January 19, 2018 |
| BROOKE RANDEL: Advanced Flexibility | January 10, 2018 |
| SARAH KRENICKI: Roommate From Hell | January 05, 2018 |
| MARY STEER: Happy New Year | December 29, 2017 |
| KARA JOHNSON-MARTINEZ: They Only Ask, What's Next? | December 27, 2017 |
| DAVE NOVAK: The Cruelest Part | December 20, 2017 |
| MAURA YZMORE: Hopeful | December 13, 2017 |
| JOEY TO: New Beginnings | December 08, 2017 |
| KSENIA BEZVIKONNAYA: Never Grow Up | November 30, 2017 |
| CHIP HOUSER: Last Dance | November 23, 2017 |
| MAURA YZMORE: Ghosts | November 14, 2017 |
| VIV BURGESS: The Goldilocks Zone | November 10, 2017 |
| ALEX MARKOVICH: Compulsive Behavior | November 03, 2017 |
| KARLA DEARSLEY: A Yarn with a Foreign Twist | October 24, 2017 |
| JOHN FOWLER: Surprise | October 16, 2017 |
| CONNELL WAYNE REGNER: Grief's Special Delivery | October 10, 2017 |
| BILL COX: The Things We Run From | October 03, 2017 |
| RR BASTEK: Beneath Layers | September 28, 2017 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Fourteen | September 22, 2017 |
| MARY HAYNES: Anchorless | September 13, 2017 |
| BOOMER TRUJILLO: Mutant | September 08, 2017 |
| YONG TAKAHASHI: Mother | August 21, 2017 |
| TRACY FELLS: Multiple Choice | August 17, 2017 |
| MARJORIE ARNETT: Neighborhood | August 09, 2017 |
| JOEY TO: Out | August 04, 2017 |
| BC NANCE: Backtrack | July 24, 2017 |
| SARAH KRENICKI: Life on Earth | July 17, 2017 |
| HENRY F TONN: Ham For Tobacco | July 12, 2017 |
| MATTHEW EICHENLAUB: The Retreat | July 07, 2017 |
| LS ENGLER: Ten | June 30, 2017 |
| CHRISTINA DALCHER: Table Manners | June 21, 2017 |
| SUSAN LOZANO: Isn't She Lovely? | June 07, 2017 |
| SHAWNTA S BARNES: Ice | May 30, 2017 |
| MARGARET McGOVERNE: Uncle Clifford | May 24, 2017 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: My Father, In Worcester, Massachusetts | May 18, 2017 |
| GUY PRESTON: The fortune-teller's daughter, pt. 1 | May 10, 2017 |
| BILL COX: Look Upon My Works | May 04, 2017 |
| MK VINNE: Just a slight increase! | April 26, 2017 |
| MUNIRA SAYYID: To Err is Human | April 21, 2017 |
| SUSAN GALE WICKES: Window Shopper | April 10, 2017 |
| DANIEL DIFRANCO: Canned Laughter | April 04, 2017 |
| BOB THURBER: My Father, the Strongman | March 31, 2017 |
| JAMES P SPITZNOGLE: Faster Than Life | March 22, 2017 |
| JOHN GABRIEL ADKINS: The Feeling of Guilt Felt in Private by a Child | March 13, 2017 |
| TAMSIN SEYMOUR: Mothering Sundae | March 07, 2017 |
| JONATHAN KOSIK: Constellations | March 03, 2017 |
| ANGELA BRETT: Welcome | February 22, 2017 |
| HANNAH FROGGATT: The Bells | February 15, 2017 |
| PONTIUS PAIVA: Oneiric | February 13, 2017 |
| JOAN TRUEMAN: Over | February 10, 2017 |
| MARK FARLEY: Trapped | February 03, 2017 |
| INGRID JENDRZEJEWSKI: Arte Verborum | January 26, 2017 |
| CARMEN OLOWU: Fake Smiles | January 19, 2017 |
| ALEXANDRA KEISTER: Vampire | January 09, 2017 |
| LS ENGLER: 2:00 AM | January 06, 2017 |
| KAMALINII: If... | December 26, 2016 |
| RAPHAEL BASTEK: Pieces in Place | December 22, 2016 |
| KIMBERLY EDWARDS: The Weight | December 19, 2016 |
| BOB THURBER: Buried in the Meadowlands | December 16, 2016 |
| A ELIZABETH HERTING: Choice | December 09, 2016 |
| DAVID RAE: My Fortune | December 02, 2016 |
| PONTIUS PAIVA: Palindrome | November 22, 2016 |
| DEBRA PASCARELLA: Carry On | November 18, 2016 |
| CANDACE KUBINEC: Fortune Teller | November 11, 2016 |
| STEPHANIE SELANDER: The Multiverse Says Hello | November 01, 2016 |
| TR JORDAN: The Mole | October 28, 2016 |
| PENNY JO MCALLISTER: Patience | October 20, 2016 |
| PERRY McDAID: Other Things | October 12, 2016 |
| MAGDA KNIGHT: Audition | October 07, 2016 |
| MATTHEW EICHENLAUB: Wounded | September 30, 2016 |
| GWENDOLYN JACOB: Surrender | September 23, 2016 |
| MARK FARLEY: Moving On | September 14, 2016 |
| PERRY McDAID: Intent | September 09, 2016 |
| DARREN LESTER: Tatouage | August 29, 2016 |
| V JANE SCHNEELOCH: Alternative Fuel | August 22, 2016 |
| MARK FARLEY: Five minutes until 'I do' | August 15, 2016 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: What Carries Us Through | August 09, 2016 |
| VIV BURGESS: Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse | August 01, 2016 |
| SCOTT RAGLAND: At the Zoo | July 26, 2016 |
| ANGELA BRETT: Once, and Forever | July 20, 2016 |
| MATTHEW EICHENLAUB: White Elephant Sale on the Town Green | July 12, 2016 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Aunt Peg | July 08, 2016 |
| BOB THURBER: Mind Your Own | July 01, 2016 |
| JD LONE BEAR: The Last Gig | June 23, 2016 |
| EVA LUÇIEN: There Be Monsters | June 14, 2016 |
| OZZIE NOGG: Could You Please Direct Me to the Self-Help Section? | June 10, 2016 |
| MARK FARLEY: The Daily Check on His Enchanted Girlfriend | June 02, 2016 |
| BOB THURBER: The Leaking and the Legacy | June 01, 2016 |
| PATRICK YU: Alien Nature | May 23, 2016 |
| DANIEL SLATEN: Encroachment | May 20, 2016 |
| VERITY PARK: Alone | May 12, 2016 |
| JOHN H. DROMEY: Cryptic Quest | May 05, 2016 |
| BOB THURBER: Guillotine Guys | April 25, 2016 |
| LYNETTE HININGS-MARSHALL: First Luncheon in a New City | April 18, 2016 |
| ALEXANDRA KEISTER: The Shrimp Farmer | April 12, 2016 |
| VIV BURGESS: Terror | April 05, 2016 |
| BOB THURBER: The Stink of a Lifetime | April 01, 2016 |
| CANDACE KUBINEC: The Diviner | March 21, 2016 |
| BOB THURBER: Inside the Walls of Troy | March 18, 2016 |
| VIV BURGESS: Luck | March 08, 2016 |
| CATHY ULRICH: An Apartment on the Moon | March 04, 2016 |
| LEE DeAMALI: Salt | February 22, 2016 |
| BRENDA ANDERSON: Unicorn Heaven | February 16, 2016 |
| GUY PRESTON: Chance Encounter With a Dream Girl | February 09, 2016 |
| ALISON COOPER: S.O.S. | February 04, 2016 |
| ELDAR LEVIN: The Dead's Weight | January 29, 2016 |
| JAMES P SPITZNOGLE: Her Finest Work | January 18, 2016 |
| BRANDON BARROWS: Obsessive | January 11, 2016 |
| PAUL BECKMAN: Waiting to be a Good Samaritan | January 06, 2016 |
| MARY STEER: New Year's Resolution | December 31, 2015 |
| BRUCE MEREDITH: Surface Area | December 21, 2015 |
| DANIEL SLATEN: All Sales Are Final | December 17, 2015 |
| SALLY BASMAJIAN: All-Nighter Agony | December 10, 2015 |
| ELLIE BURKINSHAW: Fairy Lights | December 08, 2015 |
| JOANNE R FRITZ: The Magic Pencil | December 01, 2015 |
| DEVON R WIDMER: The Death of a Dream | November 25, 2015 |
| ALISON CARROLL: The End | November 20, 2015 |
| GUY PRESTON: The Last Day I Wore My Wedding Ring | November 09, 2015 |
| MATTHEW GREGORY: Blind Date | November 03, 2015 |
| LISA LYSEN: Mama | October 26, 2015 |
| JASON HUYNH: A Fleeting Childhood | October 20, 2015 |
| JON NIXON: Life Encapsulated | October 12, 2015 |
| CAROL BROWNE: Cold Callers | October 09, 2015 |
| WILLIAM SHAW: Sea and Sky | October 02, 2015 |
| PAT CAMPBELL: One Night Stand | September 23, 2015 |
| KATYA DUFT: The Missing Wallet | September 14, 2015 |
| KENNETH HAMNER: Toothbrush, Toothbrush, Toothbrush | September 10, 2015 |
| GUY PRESTON: One Job From Retirement | September 02, 2015 |
| JOE LUNNE: Southern Rim | August 27, 2015 |
| ROBERTO CARCACHE FLORES: La Costa | August 20, 2015 |
| JEFF HOLLAND: You Are Standing in My Moonlight | August 14, 2015 |
| QUENTIN NORRIS: Abducting Abby | August 06, 2015 |
| DAMIAN SEBOUHIAN: Where Does the Time Go? | July 31, 2015 |
| SD Curran: The Call | July 20, 2015 |
| DAN NIEDERLOH: Mr. Moon | July 17, 2015 |
| RAMIT DAS: Snowflake | July 09, 2015 |
| JEFFREY ALBRIGHT: Spare Some Change | July 03, 2015 |
| SARAH SCOTT: Thunderclap | June 26, 2015 |
| CONNELL WAYNE REGNER: Catching Up With a Friend | June 19, 2015 |
| BOB THURBER: These Things Are Yours | June 11, 2015 |
| MARK FARLEY: Head Case | June 01, 2015 |
| GUY PRESTON: The Writer's Son | May 28, 2015 |
| KATHRYN TRATTNER: Handyman | May 19, 2015 |
| GAGHE MACWILLIAMS: The Stranger | May 14, 2015 |
| HOLLY COOMBS: The Beast | May 08, 2015 |
| BOB THURBER: The Week The Circus Came To Town | April 27, 2015 |
| SARAH SCOTT: Duplicitous Haunts | April 22, 2015 |
| BOB THURBER: The Things We Preserve | April 16, 2015 |
| MARK FARLEY: Smaller Than You | April 08, 2015 |
| CYNTHIA FRANKS: Note Left on a Car in a Grocery Store Parking Lot | April 03, 2015 |
| COREY NILES: Be Okay | March 25, 2015 |
| MJ MARGGRAFF: On Fire | March 18, 2015 |
| GINA LYLE: Striking Twice | March 13, 2015 |
| MATTHEW D WHEATON: Paradise | March 02, 2015 |
| STEVE LUCAS: Closing Time | February 26, 2015 |
| DEVON R WIDMER: Year's End | February 19, 2015 |
| CLIO VELENTZA: Death and I | February 09, 2015 |
| CAITLIN MCGILL: Tripping | February 02, 2015 |
| BOB MCNEIL: A Presaged Day Ago | January 30, 2015 |
| CATHY ULRICH: Math Lesson | January 29, 2015 |
| PERRY MCDAID: Old Wounds | January 22, 2015 |
| FRANK SOLOMON: The Incantation | January 15, 2015 |
| PERRY MCDAID: A Honeymoon Walk | January 07, 2015 |
| CK BLACK: Auld Lang Syne | January 01, 2015 |
| BARRY O'FARRELL: Labels | December 24, 2014 |
| ARTHUR BROWN: The Learner Voice | December 17, 2014 |
| AGATA RATAJCZAK: Loyalty vs. Duty | December 08, 2014 |
| SARAH HENRY: Coffee Cups | December 05, 2014 |
| MOUSTACHE MEMOIRS WINNER: Joey To - The Useless Suspects | November 28, 2014 |
| ANTON ROSE: Commuting | November 20, 2014 |
| PERRY MCDAID: Inspiration | November 12, 2014 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: What Passes | November 07, 2014 |
| BOB THURBER: The First Time I Gazed Into My Wife's Eyes | October 27, 2014 |
| BARRY O'FARRELL: Footsteps | October 23, 2014 |
| RUBY RAY: Snowbound | October 17, 2014 |
| BOB THURBER: The Mapmaker's Calligraphist Daughter | October 08, 2014 |
| PAVARTI K TYLER: Creation | October 01, 2014 |
| SHARK TRAGER: Hector Heard God | September 25, 2014 |
| PHILIP ZUNZUNCITO SEQUOIA: Assertive | September 19, 2014 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Summer Learning, 1975 | September 12, 2014 |
| BOB THURBER: The Talking Fingers of my Great Greek Grandfather | September 08, 2014 |
| KYMBERLI ROBERSON: Guess Who | September 02, 2014 |
| KATYA DUFT: First Impressions | August 18, 2014 |
| MICHAEL COOLEN: There Goes Spot Again | August 13, 2014 |
| CATHERINE MATHEWS: Old Age | August 08, 2014 |
| ALEX MASCARENHAS: Through the Window | August 01, 2014 |
| J IAN MANCZUR: Paper Crosses | July 21, 2014 |
| JENNIFER L FREED: Sitting | July 14, 2014 |
| PATRICIA ALBELA-SILVER: Blood Diamonds | July 09, 2014 |
| AZARIN SADEGH: Dream | July 03, 2014 |