A Plate of Pandemic
Published Semi-annually on the Solstices
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Briana Maley's short stories have been published in Fiction Southeast, Fictive Dream, New Flash Fiction Review, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. She received Lilith Magazine's 2019 fiction prize, and was runner-up in the 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival fiction contest. She lives in Maryland.
When Margaret enters the basement playroom, she is not surprised by what she sees, but she is enraged nonetheless. Her three children, slumped here before her, have not cleaned. They have not even tidied. That is to say, they have not even bothered to shove armfuls of Lego and My Little Ponies under […]