THREE AND A HALF MURAS by Mark Budman
THREE AND A HALF MURASby Mark Budman
Mura 1
Mura (with the emphasis on the first syllable) is a generic name of a female cat in...
HARMLESS PERVERSION by Donald Zagardo
FROM THERE TO HEREby Donald Zagardo
My head doesn’t hurt so much anymore, not like it did back in Iraq or where the hell we were. Maybe I’m getting...
GRANDMAMA’S FLOWERS by Susan Zurenda
GRANDMAMA’S FLOWERSby Susan Beckham Zurenda
The day before Grandmama came to get me, I planned how to stow the cat in her car and take him to her house...
HOW THEY MET by Carole Langille
HOW THEY METby Carole Glasser Langille
He knocks on the door and goes in. He was told the door would be open.“Rachel,” he calls out. “It’s Henry. Just bringing...
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...
AT TAFT POINT by Liana Andreasen
AT TAFT POINTby Liana Andreasen
Bouncing from boulder to boulder and all around the Valley, shrill voices blend with the cries of high-flying birds.By early November, Glacier Point Road...
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,...
SHRIVELED HEARTS by John Danahy
SHRIVELED HEARTSby John Danahy
Cassie rounded the bathroom corner, slid under the sheets, and nestled her body against the middle-aged man who’d said his name was Thomas Prow. “It’s...
