I calibrate three times a day. I recalibrate constantly. In the time before continuous glucose monitors, I assaulted my finger a dozen...

"I will not eat a single hazelnut, unless you are by my side…" - a Black Sea folk song Akçay and his wife Semra lived in the province of...

Memory is a strange thing. When I was 5 years old, I had surgery on the muscles behind my eyes. All I remember from the day before the...

Mellow, easygoing, that’s how Jamie’s friends and family described him. Some tied it to his frequent pot smoking. Others linked it to his...

It is a mild winter day in Buenos Aires, August of 1990, and my uncle Cacho, dark eyes convivial, is introducing me to an old friend in...

Once a proud and majestic feline, I now spend most of my days curling up in the corner of a bombed-out building, trying to avoid the...

If the Lagina brothers would visit me in the dream world, I could show them right where to dig on Oak Island because I’ve discovered that...

(Writers note: "Inspired by a reputed affair between Herman Melville and Sarah Morewood in 1850’s Massachusetts as he was writing Moby...

Much of the Latine identity today comes from past trauma. History reminds us of the colonization of the land belonging to Indigenous...

By the expression Animal Magnetism I mean one of the universal operations of Nature, the action of which, when directed on our nerves,...

(Content warning: this story contains sensitive material related to child sexual abuse, rape. Please read at your own discretion.) At the...

Corporal Maxwell had progressed faster than Space Force Sergeant Jackson had anticipated. In a few short months, he had already logged...

I’ve lived five years next door to Ira Schwartz, but we never exchanged more than a brief hello. I stopped in to check on him a few...

In the midst of training for a trail race, I traveled to a conference in Phoenix. Thinking of the pain I would be in if I didn’t keep up...

Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...

As a labor and delivery nurse of 25 years, I worked with many doctors. One of the anesthesiologists I worked with for 20 years placing...

(Note: occasionally, Story Sanctum will publish the first chapters of upcoming novels. Here is one from writer Doug Dalglish) Justo The...

(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in...

1 It was a cool fall evening, the sky gray and the air still. I tied the goldenrod with a blue ribbon and held it in my hand as I walked,...