Five Minute Stories

  • Water Buffalo

    We take them out at dawn, when the sky in the east is red and the…

  • Angels

    The air smells like antiseptic in the hospital tents. Men lie in rows along the canvas…

  • Garden Faeries

    I leave a handful of seeds outside my garden gate when I plant in the spring.…

  • Spices

    We open the stall before dawn turns the eastern sky pink. Grandfather pushes the metal door…

  • Smuggler’s Camp

    The trucks come rumbling into our camp, dust rising in their wake. The beds are full…

  • Gypsy

    The fires bring them. Light blossoms into the sky, brighter than the stars, red as the…

  • Winter Nights

    The wind is howling. I can hear it outside the hut, whistling among the rocks. Blowing…

  • Ivy

    Don’t step on the leaves. I repeat it to myself over and over again. Don’t step…

  • Hiding

    In the barn, he tells me, his voice shaking with haste. There’s an old cellar and…

  • Lepers

    They come with the food at dawn’s first breath, when the light is still weak and…