THE NEIGHBOR by Fiona Cooke
THE NEIGHBORby Fiona Cooke
Tommy was always the paranoid type; he bought 1,000 dollars' worth of security cameras and security locks, so if anyone were to show up, he’d see them. The only thing...
LINEMAN’S HUT NO. 13 by Magdalena Blazevic
LINEMAN’S HUT NO. 13by Magdalena Blazevic The shadow is alive and Sofija knows she cannot run from it. The room's walls cannot soak it in, nor can the dark swallow it up. She pulls the...
FATHER by Erik Barca
FATHERby Erik Barca
“Marcus, please stay the week. Dad needs you.”
“He doesn’t want me around. I’ll need to rearrange my work. I can only stay through Wednesday, maybe.”
“But I can’t take care of him until Saturday … Yes,...
FOURTH OF JULY CONFESSION by Amber Brandau
FOURTH OF JULY CONFESSIONby Amber Brandau
The town’s streets were lined with American flags, signaling another Fourth of July was here. I walked down the old brick streets that paved the historical part of our...
SPRING-HEELED JACK by Ernesto Ignacio Gomez Belloso
SPRING-HEELED JACKby Ernesto Ignacio Gomez Belloso
Gottfried and Freischütz were not artsy. They didn’t know the complexities of painting, nor did they ever bother to look into them. But they could see the beauty in...
FROSTBITTEN PIEROGI by Jennifer Ostromecki
FROSTBITTEN PIEROGIby Jennifer Ostromecki
Inside our house I shiver while my breath fogs the window; I draw a cake with seven candles then wipe the pane before Mama notices. Babcia bangs and clangs pans in...
WAR IS NEVER OVER by Gail Finch
WAR IS NEVER OVERby Gail Finch
It was the summer of 1954. The screams of cicadas could be heard through the humid air of the twilight. Stars twinkled in the sky as the sun started...
PAID HOLIDAY by Tina Zenou
PAID HOLIDAYby Tina Zenou
The green hills come rolling up towards us. Neat hedges of brambles divide them. In the distance the glitter of the ocean.I look at all the beauty and I want to...
GREEN EYES by Miles Hall
GREEN EYESby Miles Hall
Every time he leaves the house, Nathan feels a pair of judgmental eyes damning him for his sins. On Tuesday, when Nathan went outside to check the mailbox, he saw them....
CEDAR by Mike Dillon
CEDARby Mike Dillon
His eyes moved from the old, white wooden ceiling to the young hospice nurse with her back to him.“How long does it take to die?”She stopped what she was doing, hesitated a...