THE CHANNEL by Sean McCarthy
THE CHANNELby Sean Padraic McCarthy
The tide rushed in through the channel, flooding over the sea bed of small jagged rocks and pebbles. Jack had taken off his flip...
CHARLIE FOXTROT: GOD BLESS by Mitch Johnson
CHARLIE FOXTROT: GOD BLESSby Mitch Johnson
Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not homeless, but these fine people don’t know a damn thing about it. I just like the...
VICTORIA by Roger McKnight
VICTORIAby Roger McKnight
“Valencia isn’t Ivy League, but better,” Sylvia Glasgow remarked, then wondered if she meant it. As an alum, she loved her college, but she’d been on...
THE CORNER, BY WALMART by Joel Smades
THE CORNER, BY WALMARTby Joel Smades Dad came out of the store only a couple minutes after he went in, and it was strange he didn’t have any plastic bags. Other people wheeled...
THE LIGHTNING MAN by Anna Schaeffer
THE LIGHTNING MANby Anna Schaeffer
The Lightning Man came to the town of Maryanne during one of Oklahoma’s fiercest thunderstorms. He burst into Kelly’s bar soaked, wild-eyed and dying...
THE LIGHTNING BUG by Adam McCulloch
THE LIGHTNING BUGby Adam McCulloch
Everyone has a type. She was mine. I could tell before we even met. I’ve always been good at summing people up. As soon...
LIFE WITH THIS MAN by Jody Sperling
LIFE WITH THIS MANby Jody Sperling
The promotion to senior management has given them more money, disposable income, but also taken him further from her and their boys: physically,...
GRACE by Christopher Foster
GRACEby Christopher Foster Past the turn off for the cemetery and farther down the trail winding around the south side of the lake the car sat quietly in the late afternoon sun—silver, languid,...
WHY I WON’T SLEEP WITH DONALD TRUMP by Judith Roney
WHY I WON’T SLEEP WITH DONALD TRUMPby Judith Roney
A surprise dinner for my cousin’s Wharton graduation. Her dad wants everyone seated before he makes his entrance — says...
THE DANCE INSTRUCTOR by Dean Jollay
THE DANCE INSTRUCTORby Dean Jollay
Nervous, unsure what to expect, Nails enters the Bougainvillea Dance Studio for his first lesson. In the empty lobby, he tries to recall what...