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...
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...
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...
THE FOOD UPON WHICH OTHERS FEAST Thomas Elson
THE FOOD UPON WHICH OTHERS FEASTby Thomas Elson
We mapped this route generations earlier, and irrespective of origin, the path is the same for everyone. We also dictated a...
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...
AMORPHOUS by Susie Gharib
AMORPHOUSBy Susie Gharib
ImmersionI always wonder what it is about water that lulls my nerves. Is it the fact that it is forever amorphous and constantly changing colors and...
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...
MOUNTAINS & RAINBOWS by Matthew Vesely
MOUNTAINS & RAINBOWSby Matthew Vesely
The MountainI stepped over a root crawling along the forest floor, one of the bigger roots, one of the roots that stemmed off into...
TARIFF by Richard Charles Schaefer
TARIFFBy Richard Charles Schaefer
The guy I’m replacing didn’t show up today, so Heather (who calls me Brian, even though my name’s Dustin) shows me around the office. This...
A NIGHT OF FIREFLIES by Gail Hosking
A NIGHT OF FIREFLIESby Gail Hosking
I listen to the story again, the one on the edge of memory ready to be told like something written from the future...