Fiction - Year I - Number 1 - December 2015

I'LL FIND MY OWN WAY OUTBy Scott Kauffman “Those two just threw themselves into everything, and we told each other that’s the pluck one must...

THE MAN IN THE IRONED SUITBy Joshua Truxton The young man in dark blue stepped gingerly around the soft piles left by stray dogs and approached the two shabbily...

THE MAGIC HOURBy Kathryn Esplin When I was growing up, dinner-table conversation often revolved around scientific discourse, the recitation of poetry composed during dinner, and the recollection of past...

COOKIES Meredith Wilson loved to bake.  She started to bake at the tender age of six, and burned her first fingers taking out the muffin from her Easy Bake...

DELUGEBy R. Leib You might as well call me Noman.  That isn't my name, but the reference will do for the purpose of our exchange.  I never had a...

FIVE WEEKS TO JAMAICABy Doug Oudin Chapter I Kurt watched appreciatively as his girlfriend Madison walked across the patio bricks, involuntarily twitching his eyebrows at the...

AIRPLANE DOWNBy Jody Rawley(Part One)Going South In A HurryTwenty minutes before the homeroom bell on a cold dry October morning, eleventh grader, Patricio Feliciano, sprinted the hundred yards from Chaparral High School’s...

PRO FORMABy Robert J. Lowenherz, Ph.D. One hour after a massive heart attack, William S. Jefferson died in his hospital bed. What followed was not at all what he...

RAVEN WINGSBy Jearl Rugh Zach poked at the small campfire with the charred end of a broken tree limb, raised the flaming stick to light another cigarette and waited...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks...