LOVE(D) by Sasha Chinnaya
LOVE(D)by Sasha Chinnaya
Night. A stack of blank pages intimidates me. A few empty containers once filled with coffee form a wall on my temporary desk. My mind searches for answers wrapped in a pretty...
I LIVE IN THE CEMETERY by Faye Reddecliff
I LIVE IN THE CEMETERYby Faye Reddecliff
Cemeteries are not scary at night. At least the dead are not what’s scary. They’re peaceful -- the vandals and drunks, now that’s something else.I know because I...
THE LAST LIVING INDIAN by Logan Giese
THE LAST LIVING INDIANby Logan Giese
Tom Hartfield sat at his cubicle in one of many iridescent spiral towers scattered across Manhattan. He felt satisfied with his morning work crunching the daily numbers and took...
UNCLE by Amanda Gamache
UNCLEby Amanda Gamache-Mitchell
I realized he knew he was dying by the look in his eyes, by the tone in his voice, as he began to tell me about his experiences in World War II....
BASIL THE GREEK by Mark Halpern
BASIL THE GREEKBy Mark Halpern
I’d prepared meticulously – beyond any possible need – and waited at the little Starbucks tucked behind the escalator that carries dark-suited bankers and whatnot up from the station. A...
CUTTHROAT GAP by Larry Rose
CUTTHROAT GAPBy Larry Rose
THE RANCHER CREAKED BACKWARDS on his porch rocking chair. His hand shook from age, perhaps, as he pointed out to the box valley in front of us. His face was drawn,...
COWHIDE by Alan Berger
COWHIDEby Alan Berger
She grew up aware of the process of slaughter.She heard it. She saw saw it, she smelled it, she ate it.That is how it turns up down on the farm.
This little big...
THE BEST COMPANY by Ezra Brooks-Planck
THE BEST COMPANYBy Ezra Brooks-Planck
The man blinked. He looked around him. There was nothing. He stood in a vast emptiness. There was no light and no dark. All he knew was that he was...
ELECTRICITY by David Rogers
ELECTRICITYby David Rogers
The whole sky flashed, a searing electric blaze, fading to the blue-brown of the horizon. Lightning here did funny things to a man’s vision. The clouds were patchy, silver gray, like the...