RETURNING by Audrey Renner
Returning
By Audrey Renner
Felicity examines the halls of The Great’s Garden Museum one last time. Her footsteps echo through the dark, empty museum. She...
JUNKYARD DOG by Henry Alan Paper
JUNKYARD DOG
I was fifteen and rabid, roaming the streets of Los Angeles like a wild dog, watching videogames on TV, old boxing matches on YouTube, Tik-Tok and...
HUNGRY by Liz Shine
Hungry
It’s a typical boring Saturday. Susie woke two hours ago, but is still lying in bed, thinking. She stares at the top-bunk ceiling, breathing the air of her...
THE FIG TREE by Peter Roxburgh
Izabela’s earliest memory is of picking fruit from the fig tree that bordered the stream which ran along the bottom of her garden. She was probably four or five years old; it...
437 WILTON STREET by Zach Murphy
437 Wilton Street (A Brick Story)
Charlie’s wistful heart tingles as he pulls up to 437 Wilton Street, the apartment building from his childhood. Everything is gone but the...
LOST by Michael Emeka
Lost
By Michael Emeka
Night had fallen by the time I returned from hawking banana for Mummy. I stood the large steel tray against the wall...
PELIOS HAS DEPARTED by Reed Kuehn
Pelios Has Departed
DSM-5 Criteria for PTSD
Criterion A (one required): The person was exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury,...
MAYA by Meghana Karanjkar
MAYA
Her tiny fingers tightly clutched the backpack . A small, pink suitcase lay by her feet. She and Alice sat next to each other on the dark beige,...
UNDERLYING CONDITION by Vincent Barry
Underlying Condition
When I was mustering out—
Whoa! I’m not talking anything as intrepid as Ranger Company for Field Force II. No, no, the Peace Corps...
THE BIOLOGY OF COURAGE by Mark Blickley
Photograph by Katya Shubova
“The Biology of Courage”
by
Mark Blickley
My name is Jull Soares...