The latest offerings in NiftyLit fiction.
- about Lap Seat
Fiction
Lap Seat
"Bill looked past Joyce, out the window, imagining his son parked in the cell phone lot of the Minneapolis airport, awaiting his father’s call, like so many late nights innocently posed at the front bay window of their home, hoping his father could, at least, be home in time to tuck him in."
- about Nobody Wants a Terrapin
Fiction
Nobody Wants a Terrapin
"This was not the argument he was planning to revive. That argument was dead, withered like an ancient mummy and stuck in the closet where it would always remain out of sight, yet never buried. He sighed, 'Look. All I want is a terrapin, is that so much to ask?'"
- about The Problem with Eternity
Fiction
The Problem with Eternity
"A gust of wind blew towards him and swept his physical form away, his body dissolving into dust as those particles scattered in the air, knowing that the same fate awaited Jacob—except 2CH would not be there to save him."
- about The Mysterious Tramp
Fiction
The Mysterious Tramp
"In a week, the whole village became acquainted with Ummed Ali. Kauser never felt him a burden. When the neighbors enquired of him, she simply said, 'It is perhaps God’s will that he should get his food and shelter here at our place.'"