BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE by Toni Morgan
BETWEEN LOVE AND HATEBy Toni Morgan
After a fitful sleep, Ken was relieved to see dawn shredding the last vestiges of night. Outside his bedroom window, a thick glaze...
THE PAINTED BOX by Emily Peña Murphey
THE PAINTED BOXBy Emily Peña Murphey
After my Abuelo Isidro passed away, María Elena began to nag at me, “When are you going to get rid of the old...
GO FISH by Maryetta Ackenbom
GO FISHBy Maryetta Ackenbom
There it was! A flash of scarlet and white, just at the corner of his vision. But his lungs were bursting; he had to go...
LOVER’S QUARREL by Jack Coey
LOVER’S QUARRELBy Jack Coey
Rod couldn’t have told when he first noticed her through his windshield signaling him to stop at the intersection of the middle school. It wasn’t...
THE APOLOGY by Janel Brubaker
THE APOLOGYBy Janel Brubaker
I held the phone to my ear and listened, stunned to the point of silence. I had known this would happen. Indeed, I had walked...
NOT FUNNY by Lisa Rutledge
NOT FUNNY
By Lisa Rutledge
I took a seat across from a man with black hair, a matching mustache, and eyes as icy blue as my...
ABOUT THE OLD MAN by Skyler Nielsen
ABOUT THE OLD MANBy Skyler Nielsen
After months of begging Dad let up, and the day couldn’t have gone better. He said if I worked hard, I could come...
THE LADYBUG by Jeanne DeWitt Voorhees
THE LADYBUGBy Jeanne DeWitt Voorhees
Mabel Hopkins and Norman Chadwick tied the knot on November 23, 1981. The wedding was at the Hopkins family homestead, then occupied by Mabel’s...
“36” by Mike Dorman
36By Mike Dorman
He did, of course, know when it had happened. Which is to say he had no clue precisely when. It had occurred, not at one decisive...
THE BEAUTY IN BEREAVEMENT by Anders M. Svenning
THE BEAUTY IN BEREAVEMENTBy Anders M. Svenning
Judy Tremont stroked her dying husband’s hair. Augustus had been sick for nearing five years and now the end was near. His...