Fiction
Short stories and flash fiction, free to read. Ninety-odd stories from the Dual Coast Magazine archive, ranging from literary fiction to humor to science fiction, and a fair amount that refuses to sit in any one of those. All of it was selected by our editors, printed in the magazine, and is open to read here. The issues these pieces appeared in are still available in paperback from Prolific Press.
Obsolete, Likened to Many Things by Ken L. Jones
I use to think that days melted fast, back in the time it took you to blink forty years after the...
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A Boon from an Angel by Matias Travieso-Diaz
Norman first saw the angel on one of those November nights when the temperature is too low for air...
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Mud Season by Laura Rodley
The road was mudded out, yet still the mail must go through. Chester gritted his teeth as...
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Wagon, Ho! by Suzanne Cottrell
Afternoon thunderstorms converted the front ditch into a stream. Josh, Caroline, and Melissa...
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Twirling by C L Killgore
I remember falling down. I twirled and twirled until I couldn’t stand upright. I was giddy and...
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A Day on the Beach by Kirk Eckstine
The beach, littered with bone-white shells and coral, soaks up blood with surprising speed. My...
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