THE PURPLE FLYING ELEPHANT by Joram Piatigorsky
Charlie, a shoe salesman, jumped out of bed, startled that it was already 8:30. His United Airlines Flight was scheduled for 10:22. Now he didn’t even have time for breakfast. He had...
ERASING by Deirdre Fryer Baird
I have no idea why I’m here. I see my distorted reflection in the shiny chrome elevator doors, but I don’t look like myself. I know I came here for a reason;...
A REVENGE STORY by Aaron Pickel
A REVENGE STORY by Aaron Pickle
Paws was the owner of a speakeasy on Lexington. During this time, it was illegal for Kitties to drink any alcoholic beverage. This...
GULF by Elyse Forbes
It had all started with the little pink heart. The pink pixelated heart, bequeathed by a virtual stranger eighteen days after his daughter had died. And now he was here, four months...
THE GIFT by Nancy Lines
Sundays in the Russell household were usually quiet – relatively quiet, at least. There were no nurses or other hospice staff bustling about, taking Rob’s blood pressure, asking him how he feels,...
AN INCIDENT WITH SOME CRACK by Daniel Senser
What can I say? I was a pot head. Of course, it was more complicated than that. I needed an escape because I was so blind to the way life really was,...
RED by Zeyneb Kaya
When they told us to stand, we all rose. When they told us to look ahead, we directed our gaze. When they told us, silence, we let the...
LIKE THEY’RE WAITING by David Biddle
Like They’re Waiting
Most mornings I drank coffee on the back porch observing as they foraged on vine berries, honeysuckle, and new grass. The cat perched on a crumbling...
PRODIGY by Mark Czanik
Prodigy
‘I’ve just been to Paris for a year.’
‘Oh, that’s nice,’ said Sadie, looking up from her decimated brassica bed to see a little...
FULL OF GRACE by Thomas Carlson
Gloria Delaney sat at her desk as her fourth graders settled in to their math quiz. She’d just begun on the stack of writing assignments she was hoping to correct when...
