• Submit to Five South

  • Submissions are open for flash, poetry, long fiction, and non-fiction. Read our submission guidelines.

  • Recently Published

    • Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
      Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
    • Roll for Love by Cidney Mayes
      She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”
    • The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
      I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
    • Saturation by Claire Oleson
      I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.

    • Caught by Chris Bullard
      Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.

Fiction


Three Horses by Sara Dobbie
December 2, 2023

the three horses became my refuge, a glimmer of joy amidst the chaos of my life.

Read More
No Comment

Bermuda Gold by Travis Dahlke
November 17, 2023

How much turquoise would we have to swallow if we needed to become gods?

Read More
No Comment

Open Gate by Melissa Fitzpatrick
November 9, 2023

I tell her David lives in Seattle with his husband. I don’t tell her that it’s been almost a year since David has spoken to me.

Read More
No Comment

Summer of Love by Jeff Harvey
November 7, 2023

We slow-danced as he hummed a Dylan tune, the one about having God on our side. Johnny’s body was soothing like a Sunday morning.

Read More
No Comment

Mermaids of Manana by Melissa Barker
November 3, 2023

We meet at the bottom. Our skin turns green and our hair stands on end. We plant our feet and hold hands and call the storm.

Read More
No Comment