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The cold metal table pressed into my back, and the cork, water-stained, ceiling loomed over me. A lightbulb dangled from a tarnished-brown chain. The dim light misted through the room, emitting...
PETER-BY-THE-BAY by Thomas Belton
While others went to the Park to see and be seen, to flirt and promenade, Peter did not. He preferred to ride his bike past the long meadow where the soccer players...
PARTNERS by Olga Collazo Perez
Kimi bit her lip and did her level best not to jump at the sound of something slamming against the counter behind her.
“You’re not welcome here!”...
DUBLINERS by Iva Cvjeticanin
It was the pink velvet dress. Evelyn held it up against her body slowly dancing with it while trying to avoid tripping over the boxes that filled her new apartment. “It was...
PESSOAS by Arthur Powers
Seánce with Fernando Pessoa
1.
I, I, I, I… or should I say “we”we know the Anglo-Saxon mindthat desperately seeks and seeks to findthe Truth behind...
AN UNEARTHLY GRACE by Peter McQuade
The ice surface at the Mount Vernon Sports Complex—my home rink—was down for repairs that springtime Saturday evening in 1984. That meant I’d have to go to the Fairfax Ice Arena instead....
KEEPSAKES ARE TEMPORAL DEBRIS by Edie Meade
I comb, in lieu of packing, through a box of letters that’s been perched on the bedroom bookshelf since we leased this apartment two years ago. And although now is not the...
CHICAGO by Elsa Pair
Bloodletting
Bloodletting,but for the rage.
If I cut open my chestsurely all that will come out is the
rage, spilling down my frontlike...
SILVER SHADOW by Rekha Valliappan
'We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man
can be master of a craft, and how a craft...
WILDERNESS by Sandra Perez
She sits in the wilderness of her heart, once again balancing the dinner plate on the arm of the sofa, watching the six o’clock news. Sometimes she wipes away just a...