YOUNG MAN’S SLAVE by Bo Fisher
Young Man’s Slave
There’s a security car that passes the house every three hours. It makes a slow left hand turn about the cul-de-sac at the end of Poplar Hill Loop before retracting its path...
BAR HARBOR, MAINE by Luke Black
Bar Harbor, Maine
by Luke Black
A radiant heating element hummed over a plane of wet tile as the mothers feigned interest in their children's cannonballs....
BAD COFFEE by Alicia Young
BAD COFFEE
By: Alicia Young
Kira twirled her index finger repeatedly around the metal utensil submerged in her caramel latte. She despised the waiting game...
THE SERPENT QUEEN by Christina Holbrook
“Holy Crap!” Caroline screamed, and scrambled back into the air-conditioned house, slamming shut the sliding glass door to the patio. She should have softened her blasphemy to, say, “Crap!” But in her terrible fright,...
LOVE AND REBIRTH by Esther Neema
LOVE AND REBIRTH
The bell was ringing. They heard it! It was grand! Three times it rung! Each time it rung louder than the last. Gong! Gong! Goooooong!
“Another one has died!” Bibi whispered, as...
SCHOLARSHIP by Maria Tsirona
Here she is, then – sitting across him. In the armchair, in front of his desk.
Efstathia.
And exactly what he was afraid of, is happening....
THE FIREPLACE by Foster Trecost
The Fireplace
I recall that morning with clarity rarely present in my memories. Fallen leaves chased across frosted grass, their paths directed by an unseen force. Church bells cracked the frozen air, marking...
SIREN SONG by Elizabeth Gauffreau
Siren Song
Galen did not think to check the gas gauge when he made his final exit from the parking lot of the Bay View Apartments. He left...
LIKE DESCRIBING COLOR TO A BLIND PERSON by Jim Bolone
“Put 101.9 on.”
The music we listening to no longer interested me and became noise. I preferred my own music; it helped keep me alert, the way it was on the road before losing my...
NUCLEAR GEOPOLITICS AND PLATO by Gracjan Kraszewski
NUCLEAR GEOPOLITICS AND PLATO
in a Bunker thirty feet below ground,
100 years in the future
By Gracjan Kraszewski
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