A Short Story By Manelle Oliphant Tiffanie ran into her father’s office and slammed the door. “Father,” she gulped for breath, “quite by chance I’ve found out the information we need.” Mr. Barton looked up from the documents spread over his desk. Tiffanie held on to the wingback chair across from him with one hand, while she…
A Short Story By Manelle Oliphant Joseph stood on the ship’s deck where he’d served for the last three years and stared at the miniature painting his wife had sent. The picture showed his smiling two-year-old son in a sailor’s outfit. “I show him your portrait and tell him about you every day. We are…
Hans My Hedgehog A Short Fairy Tale Retelling by Manelle Oliphant A year ago I promised my father I would marry a hedgehog. Today I married him. Father met him when he was lost in the forest. It frightened him to meet a man all hedgehog on his top half, but the hedgehog introduced himself…