WRAPPING THINGS UP RIGHT by Susan Swanson
WRAPPING THINGS UP RIGHTby Susan Swanson
A little more than a week after surgery I brought Ma home. She was still “Ma” even though Bill, roommate at Yale, had...
A TWINKLE IN THE NIGHT by Don Himelstein
A TWINKLE IN THE NIGHTby Donald Himelstein
Stan Waltman was tired. He had driven almost two hours in the cold and wet snow and as he entered the town...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
VIOLET ABSTRACT 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...
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...
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...
