#1 Slipping by Margaret Finnegan
Faye had been taking the meditation class at Yoga House for six months when she realized that she could slip undetected into the thought streams of her fellow class members. All she had to do was close...
View Article#2 Downsized by Janet Aird
I’d always thought of Albert as a fairly predictable person, so when I came home from work one evening and found the living room drapes missing, I assumed he’d taken them to the dry cleaner. He’s been...
View Article# 4 Quicky by Désirée Zamorano
Inez Leon waited in the foyer of the Athenaeum. She resented the fact that she had had to cut short her krav maga workout, to shower, dress up, and then struggle for parking around the Caltech campus...
View Article#61 Rooms by Petrea Burchard
Randolph has his pompous, executive job and his overweight, red-faced golf buddies and I have our big, old, Pasadena Craftsman house–or I would, if Randolph would let me do things my way. Except he...
View ArticleThe Goddess Lounge is now available
The Rose City Sisters would love to say we discovered writer Margaret Finnegan, but that would be a major-league lie. She was a wonderful writer when she submitted the first of several flash fiction...
View ArticleDonnie Dale is dying (but that’s just part of the story)
Three years ago this week, Donnie Dale wrote the short-short story “Air Lines” for this site. More recently he’s been polishing the manuscripts of several novels he has written over the years,...
View ArticleNews flash: fiction is fiction by John Sandel
The Rose City Sisters welcomes guest contributor John Sandel. He and Tara Samuel are the co-founders of the Script Kitchen, a small class devoted to helping writers develop stories. John wrote features...
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