2017-11-09 23:15
Storychord published a total of 150 multimedia issues -- each featuring a piece of short fiction, paired with visual art and a one-song soundtrack -- from March 2017 through October 2017. As… Read More
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Every other Monday, Storychord features one story + one image + a one-song soundtrack -- each by a different, underexposed artist -- for a collaborative, multi-media storytelling experience.
2017-10-02 13:30
Issue #150 Guest Editor Joy Baglio is founder and director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop in western Mass., which offers one-day and multi-week workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poe… Read More
2017-09-11 15:24
Photograph by Elisabeth FuschiaGIGI AND LUANNby Samuel ColeBefore this round of sobriety, I was seriously contemplating how to snort my mother’s cellulite, figuring we&rs&hell…Read More
2017-08-28 21:13
Issue #148 Guest Editor Morgan Pile previously published fiction in Storychord Issue #63. She received her MFA in Fiction from the New School and lives in Brooklyn, where she founded of Writ… Read More
2017-07-17 13:32
Art by Alexis WheelerMY LIFE NOWby Lindsey BakerThe restaurant was like this: rain or sun, we opened every day at 11 a.m. and closed at 11 p.m. I was there most mornings at ten… Read More
2017-07-03 13:30
Issue #146 Guest Editor Benjamin Woodard previously appeared in Storychord's Issue #116. His recent fiction has appeared in Hobart, Corium Magazine, New South, and other literary journals. H… Read More
2017-06-19 13:30
Illustration by Andrea SparacioTO KNOW, AT LEASTby Janet FrishbergThey sat in a therapist’s office on opposite ends of a pale green couch, and the therapist asked Mina, … Read More
2017-06-05 17:35
Art by Tracy KerdmanLOOKING FOR LOVEby Evan Pellervo1: An Imagined Introduction“Hi. Sorry. I don’t want to bother you, but I’ve seen you aroun… Read More
2017-05-22 13:30
Art by Derek BowmanWAITRESSby Joe WorthenThe waitress is on a hard couch with the SEO expert, and it’s late and something is burning. The waitress has a braid that has been eroded almo… Read More
2017-05-08 21:07
Storychord.com takes a quick break from posting this week for a formal reading period. Want your work featured in an upcoming Summer issue? This reading period presents a perfect opportunity… Read More
2017-04-24 14:00
Photograph by Helena KvarnströmTHE REMAKING OF LILLIANby Rona SimmonsLillian packed everything she owned into the smaller of two suitcases stashed in the back of the closet she shared w… Read More
2017-04-10 14:00
Art by Hannah RichardsHEAVY DOES ITby Sharla YatesWe were seventeen. These guys—at least twenty-five. The shorter had a shaved head and wore jeans tucked into his Doc Martens. Introduc… Read More
2017-03-28 04:24
Painting by Tracy KerdmanA SELFISH INVENTIONby Donald Edem QuistDaYana drops the butt of her cigarette into a dingy embankment of snow lining the cracked sidewalk leading to her resid… Read More
2017-03-13 13:30
Illustration by Vrinda ZaveriTHE CASE OF THE ALBINO GORILLAby Caralyn DavisSena is a one-woman production line. She scoops mayonnaise out of a jar with two fingers curved into… Read More
2017-02-27 15:16
Illustration by Corey PandolphHABITSby Lisa GordonI woke up to goblins in my backyard. At first, obviously, I thought I was dreaming. So I went back to sleep, and when I woke u… Read More
2017-02-13 14:36
Art by Scott Michael AckermanTHE GOPHER IN RAE’S CHESTby Beth GilstrapRae took care of all her husband’s people. His parents and great uncle all moved in whe… Read More
2017-01-30 17:46
Art by Aliene de Souza HowellTHE REWARD COMES NEXTby Wynne HungerfordSomething’s going on in the shimmering green country––by invitation only. What: A large (but not fat)… Read More
2017-01-16 14:30
Issue #135 Guest Editor Sara Rauch's prose has appeared in Split Lip, Hobart, Gravel, So to Speak, Luna Luna, and more. Her debut story collection, What Shines from It, is forthcoming in 201… Read More
2016-12-06 01:41
In these last three weeks of 2016, Storychord.com takes a break from posting new issues to take stock of this past year's offerings and prepare exciting new ones for the site's 7th(!) year o… Read More
2016-11-21 14:30
Issue #134 Guest Editor Jessica Maria Johnson's writing previously appeared in Storychord Issue #101. She works and writes in Los Angeles. She was born in Panama, but doesn't have a hometown… Read More
2016-11-07 14:30
Illustration by L.K. JamesREPOTTEDby Jennifer AhlquistI found my brother again at the garden center. I was sure I’d imagined his voice, just over my shoulder in line for the register… Read More
2016-10-24 13:30
Illustration by Devyn ParkTHERE IS NO ARTHURby Eva KonstantopoulosThe sounds of the market burst in Frank's ears as he navigated through the stalls. He held his phone tightly in his hand, th… Read More
2016-10-10 13:30
Illustration by Andrea NakhlaFRANCIS FOREVERby Nada AlicSleep had forgotten me. Each night, I laid on my back waiting for it to come, but it would not come. I would say things like “I… Read More
2016-09-26 14:19
Illustration by Marni ManningBOSS MANby Alice KaltmanThere are no olives in the pantry and I distinctly remember buying some organic pimento-stuffed ones at Whole Foods yesterday. Or maybe i… Read More
2016-09-12 13:30
Issue #129 Guest Editor Jane Liddle's writing previously appeared in Storychord Issue #89. She is a friend to birds and lives in the Hudson Valley. Her short-story collection Murder was publ… Read More
2016-08-29 13:00
Art by Colleen MaynardA WOMAN'S LIFEby Andrew BertainaFinally they'd agreed; the house would be painted. They settled on a shade of yellow. She was happy about the color, and he was trending… Read More
2016-08-15 13:00
Illustration by Max PasslerCLOAKING DEVICEby Christine RiceThe first thing Marine Guard William Goynes, Jr. noticed when he stepped off the plane and onto American soil for the first time in… Read More
2016-08-01 14:02
Photograph by Joshua FinnellTHE SKY PINPRICKEDby Rachel Ranie TaubeWe are two women, one man, and two little boys.“I really need to go to the bathroom.” Tanner’s voice coul… Read More
2016-07-18 13:30
Illustration by Max BayarskyVILGRAIN AFTER ASHESby Tobias CarrollÉtienne Vilgrain arrived on the scene in time to see the last of it burn. A pile of paper a hundred pages thick, a dia… Read More
2016-07-04 23:15
Illustration by Hannah PerryLAST THINGSby Ilene Raymond RushOn the drive back from her mother’s funeral, Lily sees Ruth everywhere. On Baltimore Pike outside Springfield Mall, headed i… Read More
2016-06-20 13:56
Photograph by Candace HopeICE CREAM TRUCKby Katherine GehanWednesday night Paul and I made out in the parking lot of the Staten Island Mall, leaning up against his jeep. As we kissed and tal… Read More
2016-06-11 14:09
Storychord.com takes a quick break from posting this week for a formal reading period (Submit!) and to spotlight some of the site's recent guest editors.In January 2013, Storychord debuted t… Read More
2016-05-23 14:07
Illustration by Olivia PeciniMRS. WASSERMAN ONE, WORLD WIDE WEB ZEROby Phyllis RudinThe courtroom was SRO. As trial crowds go it wasn’t standard issue. Almost all women, and most of th… Read More
2016-05-09 16:50
Art by Marly GallardoWHERE IS THE WORD FOR WHAT I WANTBy Kara McMullenI was right in the middle of turning around and around, left and then left again, spinning in rapid circles with my chin… Read More
2016-04-25 13:46
Art by Ryan GarveyYES / CHILDRENTwo Stories by Chanel DubofskyYESKat and Jeremy go to visit his parents in San Diego on a Sunday, and on the way back to Los Angeles, they fight. On Monday, a… Read More
2016-04-11 12:00
Illustration by Laura BernardTHIS HOUSEby Katherine HubbardThe lights flicked on in the house next door. Marnie had the pleasure each morning of watching her neighbor, Celine, barely covered… Read More
2016-04-08 03:45
Art by Marissa LevienA TENNIS COURTby Leesa Cross-SmithDown there, they always peed outside. Hush-slipped their dress hems from their knees to their waists and squatted. Alabama girls. Alaba… Read More
2016-03-14 13:30
Art by Jia SungFAREWELLby Hannah SloaneTom approached weddings with deep-rooted pessimism and a weary sense of duty. Perhaps the couples sensed this because often, at the after party, h… Read More
2016-02-29 14:30
Art by Derek BomanMR. DINOSAURby Benjamin WoodardWhile Iris pours herself a mug of tea, Goldie stomps into the kitchen, eyes slick like tadpoles, and makes the announcement: Mr. Dinosaur has… Read More
2016-02-20 20:17
Illustration by Hae Jin ParkYUKATAby Eva SandovalWe're at our usual and Ben's ordering more sake and more chicken hearts and we're having one of our terrific fights – American English… Read More
2016-02-15 18:56
Issue #115 Guest Editor R.K. Thompson is a writer and teacher living in Portsmouth, Virginia, who was previously featured as Storychord's Issue #95 fiction writer. Art by Leslie RennMAN AT T… Read More
2016-01-18 14:30
Issue #113 Guest Editor Danielle Villano was previously featured as Storychord's Issue #38 fiction writer. Her work has found its way to Breadcrumbs Mag, Toska Magazine, and various other pu… Read More
2016-01-04 14:30
Art by Nicole DaddonaBIRTHDAY SUITby John GormanMitch needed to dump Iggy pronto. It was the only decent thing to do, but, if he canned the kid, he’d have all those bottles of olive oi… Read More
2016-01-02 20:13
Art by Mary Goldthwaite GagneDOMESTICATIONby Charlie ClementsMy dog is very coy sometimes, like a girlfriend early in a relationship. Often, just after I get into bed, she clambers up next t… Read More
2015-12-31 21:08
Art by Christopher BrownLOVE ME LIKE THISby Kayli Scholz1. TRISH“This is happening, Trish,” Brooke says. “Are you even listening?”Not closely so much, no. My girlfrie… Read More
2015-12-31 20:59
Digital collage by Christine StoddardTHE PROPERTY AT 6630 23½ MILE ROADby Robert James RussellThey came in the night for Lee Cabell’s things—two men, August and John, sent… Read More
2015-12-31 20:59
Art by Claudio ParentelaTHE CUTby Sara LevineThe block had changed. Money, of course. New demographic. The check-cashing place was now a baby boutique. Ed's Plumbing, in whose window a dusty… Read More
2015-12-07 17:54
In these last three weeks of 2015, Storychord.com takes a break from posting new issues to take stock of this past year's offerings and prepare exciting new ones for the site's SIXTH(!) year… Read More
2015-11-26 02:46
Issue #110 Guest Editor Chloe Caldwell is the author of the novella Women (SF/LD 2014) and the essay collection Legs Get Led Astray (Future Tense Books 2012). Her work has appeared in Salon… Read More
2015-11-26 02:46
Issue #111 Guest Editor Alice Kaltman is a fiction writer whose work previously appeared in Issue #92. She writes novels for kids and short fiction for adults. For more, visit Alice online a… Read More
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