Five on the Fifth is an online literary magazine founded in September 2015. We publish 5 fiction/nonfiction pieces on the 5th of every month.

Mahdis Marzooghian

Mary-Anne Nelligan

Rhea Dhanbhoora

Five on the Fifth

A note on what we don't want: We do not publish novels. We do not publish fan fiction. We do not publish experimental pieces. We do not publish articles or research papers. We do not publish erotica, though there can be erotic and/or graphic elements in your fiction, as long as they are tasteful and for the purpose of telling a great story. 

Multiple submissions are permitted. However, for longer pieces such as general fiction, horror, fantasy/science-fiction, or nonfiction, please only send two (2) pieces at once. For shorter pieces such as flash fiction, please only send three (3) pieces at once. You may also send one longer piece (general fiction, horror, fantasy/science-fiction, or nonfiction) and one flash fiction piece at once, so two (2) pieces total. 

General call

It was Dostoevsky or Nabokov, or some other -ski or -kov, or maybe a -lov or -kin that coined the canals of Saint Petersburg veins and, if they were right, Saint Petersburg is dead, frozen solid.

Teacup

A girl dressed in flowers came out of the woods. It was night and the stars were swirling.



The Madman and the Flower Girl

A surreal flash fiction about a woman searching for her troubled brother after he disappears in a dark forest.

Follow Me

If the hitchhiker noticed the question’s disapproving tone, she ignored it. “I’m a poet,” she said as breezy as the air flowing through the open windows, the car gaining speed. “I’m walking the poem I write, and I’m writing the poem I walk.”



Walking the Poem

On Monday, I went for lunch at a vegetarian restaurant in Lviv that I used to go to last year and ran into S___, a waitress I knew from that time.

Gone

When Olive was nervous, she removed parts of her body. Eyelashes, dead skin, blackheads. Hangnails, bitten off. Chin hairs, plucked out. Nothing anyone would miss. 

The Most Beautiful Thing In The World

A Somber Timbre spans a short stretch of highway as a daughter and father find themselves growing further apart while they sit side by side. The pair struggle to understand each other in the shadow of the mother’s untimely death.

A Somber Timbre

“Think of it like a wilderness retreat,” I tell Tina, as we pull rocks from the sunken hollow where we aim to sleep. “We can pretend we're on one of those adventure leadership courses and not on the lam from some overpriced rehab.” 

California

"My father died so unexpectedly that a panicked part of my brain froze, thinking it was still August for months afterward. I caught myself incorrectly dating documents until a new calendar year shook me loose."

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