Temple in a City is an online journal publishing micro and flash fiction and creative non-fiction, poetry, art and letters. This space is communal. Come on in and stay a while, we won’t intrude.
Temple in a City is an online journal publishing micro and flash fiction and creative non-fiction, poetry, art and letters. This space is communal. Come on in and stay a while, we won’t intrude.
Temple in a City is an online journal publishing micro and flash fiction and creative non-fiction, poetry, art and letters. This space is communal. Come on in and stay a while, we won’t intrude.
Fiction, Emily Rinkema
/in Light, Issue 2Lou The day before the Dairy Princess finals at the State Fair, Lou sits in a refrigerated room for six hours while a sculptor carves her shoulders, her neck, her chin, her cheeks, her ears, her hair out of a 90 pound block of Grade A Minnesota butter. Her mom promised this would be it, […]
Flash fiction, 2 stories, Huina Zheng
/in Light, Issue 2The Pin Inside My Body There’s a pin beneath my skin. It’s lodged under my right breast, between the ribs, like a stubborn thorn. X-rays show nothing—I’ve been to five hospitals. The doctors all say it’s anxiety. But at night, the sharp sting wakes me. My fingertips can trace its shape—sometimes upright, sometimes flat, sometimes […]
Fiction, June Gemmell
/in Light, Issue 2The Homecoming She stood in front of the old house and breathed it in. The summer breeze lifted the dust from the warm pavement, ruffled the bushes at the front door with its fingers. The windows seemed different now, darker, empty of life. But the front garden looked broadly the same, just more tired. Overgrown […]