Emma, Interrupted

✦ Fiction

Short Stories

Original short fiction by Emma Apollo. Small in length, not in weight. The essays are where I process things. The stories are where I hide them.

3 stories

No. 03

June 2026 890 words
Humor / dark comedy
chronic illness dark humor community

The Support Group for People Who Are Fine

“The first rule of the support group for people who are fine is that everyone insists they don't need to be there. The second rule is that everyone comes back next week.”
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No. 02

August 2026 1,200 words
Literary fiction
grief memory insomnia

The Cartographer of Small Rooms

“She had mapped every room she had ever slept in. Not the furniture — the feeling. The particular quality of light at 3am. The sounds the building made when it thought no one was listening.”
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No. 01

July 2026 420 words
Flash fiction
lists endings survival

Inventory

“What she kept: the good knife, the bad habit, the phone number she had never called. What she gave away: the furniture that remembered him. What she threw out: the version of herself that thought this was temporary.”
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