FLAMENCO by Bruce Kamei
Flamenco
The last two days were extremely long for Immigration and Naturalization Service Special Agent Takeshi Tsukemoto, for the INS served a warrant for illegals at a sweatshop. Eighty-five aliens were taken into custody,...
THE SUGAR POT by Krista Creel
THE SUGAR POTBy Krista Creel
Momma says I have to go to Mrs. Verna’s for sugar. She wants to make shortcakes for my brother and we’re out. Mrs. Verna lives two houses down on the...
TOXIC – A short story by Nya Jackson
VIOLET ABSTRACTby Nya Jackson
I wasn’t able to bail Violet out of jail the third time she got arrested because she died in police custody. She’d only been in the holding cell for thirteen hours,...
DAMAGE COLLATERAL by Susannah Luthi
DAMAGE COLLATERALby Susannah Louise
part i
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure...
ENDANGERED by Simon Lowe
ENDANGEREDby Simon Lowe
A bright and perky morning in 1983. Bill Finton, a consultant ecologist, waits for the postman to deliver a bribe. Yesterday, Bill took a bribe to the hospital hoping his daughter would...
GUZZLED – By Jonathan Ferrini
GUZZLEDBy Jonathan B. Ferrini
Imagine finding a diamond embedded in the ground. You pull it from the earth and although the diamond glistens, you’re repulsed by the insects scurrying around under it. Like the insects,...
SMOKEY THE THERAPY CAT by Andrew Miller
SMOKEY THE THERAPY CATby Andrew Miller Last week Jeff Streeter drove me to the clam flats in his Ford Model T to scatter Patricia’s ashes. We went before sunrise, her favorite time of day. Jeff...