Featured Fiction
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"Tangerine Strands"
by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
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"Animals"
by Sarah Holloway
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"A Notion of Limbs"
by K.M. Elkes
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"Steel Wings"
by Stephen Wunderli
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"They're All Rough at This Point"
by Roberts Jekabsons
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"Cracked Eggs"
by Evan Burkin
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"Grapefruit"
by Margaret Cahill
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"The Nairobi Paper"
by Tom MacFarland
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"Son"
by Junaid Ahmed Ahangar
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"Scarecrow"
by Robert L. Penick
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"The Amazing Story of Dr. Megrelian's Itinerant Circus and Human Zoo
by L. B. Polk
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"Coming To"
by Matthew O’Brien
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"Occupied Territories"
by Daniel Sofaer
The Argyle presents…
Rag Doll Symposium
A Virtual Fiction (Micro)Chap by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi, author and Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, weaves a narcotic, surrealist thread through three amazing short stories about everyday people in one of The Argyle’s latest (mirco)chaps.
This mini-chap will vanish into the ether upon publication of The Argyle’s third issue in May 2024. Read NOW before it disappears.
The Notion of Limbs
by K.M. Elkes
“Then something drops through the gauzy edge of his vision. Dark against the deep afternoon blue.”
Elena
by Alejandro Gabriel Leopardi
“She left a clear reminder that happy people aren’t happy. Not all the time.”
The Rashomon Effect
by Karen Schauber
“Blood flowing like watercolour paint. Dark Jurassic shadows weaving figure eights just below the surface.”
Eyes
by Francois Bereaud
“He wondered if the rat could feel anxiety. Doubtful..”
Animals
by Sarah Holloway
“Patricia’s shaved skull sported a tattooed target where radiation was beamed into her brain by a linear particle accelerator on weekdays. She got weekends off.”
Occupied Territories
by Daniel Sofaer
“Jack paused for a larger sip of wine. It was the good red stuff and had loosened his tongue.”
Teeth
by Amy DeBellis
“I purse my mouth like an overripe strawberry, beckoning future rot.”
Table Talk
by Ed Walsh
“I’ve noticed since that people like Gabriel tend not to be contradicted…just avoided.”
Tangerine Strands
by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
“Everyone who stole glances of Mia, who never saw—but must have felt— the judging eyes.”
Son
by Junaid Ahmed Ahangar
“The world is passing me by, my life is passing me by, and I cannot do a single god damn thing about it. “
War Torn
by Corey Villas
“You come back to me the same. Don’t let over there ruin you.”
Tita’s Sister’s Boyfriend
by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
“Tita admires his golden skin, his muscles - not too big - carving their way through the water. She pretends not to stare, but he always smiles and makes her feel good.”
The Nairobi Paper
by Tom MacFarland
“So went his first exposure to bad guys who thoroughly hate Americans…”
Scarecrow
by Robert L. Penick
“Sometimes, this culminated in a rocket or shell from a railway gun, rending grandmothers and children into irregular meat.”
Grapefruit
by Margaret Cahill
“I’ve discretely inscribed those three Chinese characters onto all of my patients before I close them up.”
The Deal
by John Fain
“By now, I decided that I’d misjudged things badly, that all the talk was her slow-walk of turning me down.”
Steel Wings
by Stephen Wunderli
“The wind begins. It rolls across the sand and sage, like an ancient ocean…”
Two Micros
by Swetha Amit
“She savored the rich taste of this simple recipe passed down through generations…this alchemy of rice and lentils soothed her nerves.”
The Amazing Story of Dr. Megrelian’s Itinerant Circus and Human Zoo
Fiction by J. B. Polk
“The Doctor’s headaches turned out to be aneurysms that one day exploded like quasars, so they buried him under a saguaro cactus…”
Cracked Eggs
by Evan Burkin
“There’s not a single thought left in my head. My OCD has nothing left to say.”