OPEN SECRET by Charlotte Freccia
OPEN SECRETBy Charlotte Freccia
Cheap white wine and good cocaine at Hen’s house. Scrimp on one to score on the other, I guess. What’s a sweetheart like you doing in a place like this, my dad...
WHO YOU’RE DEALING WITH? By Raymond Arcangel
WHO YOU’RE DEALING WITHBy Raymond Arcangel
Nothing ever looked like it did in the movies. No cozy warm lounge, a half-dozen chairs of leather and wood with their backs against the cream-colored walls, low mahogany...
A PLACE OF BUSINESS by Bill Schillaci
A PLACE OF BUSINESSBy Bill Schillaci
When I first entered its life, it was a stamp store, or seemed to be. It had no business sign, but there was a storefront window that was so...
ECHO by Andy Tu
ECHOBy Andy Tu
The first time I met Elana, during freshmen orientation at college, I thought she was a loser. There wasn’t much to warrant this judgement, just a feeling of aversion when she asked...
O MITO DA FÉNIX de Vera Lúcia Gonçalves
O MITO DA FÉNIX
De Vera Lúcia Gonçalves
Quando me debruço sobre a mitologia grega tendo a abrandar sempre no mito da Fénix. Há algo nela que me seduz, que parece ter sido urdido na malha de...
THE DELUGE by Gracjan Kraszewski
THE DELUGEBy Gracjan Kraszewski
“We’d like to extend a special welcome to any viewers joining us following that wild conclusion to the Atlanta-Carolina game. What a finish, huh, Bob?”“That’s right, Schenectady. Wild, more like hogwild...
UNUSED MILES by Richard Bentley
UNUSED MILESBy Richard Bentley
This happened in San Francisco in the 1960s, but in the early sixties San Francisco wasn’t quite as we picture it now. There didn’t seem to be an unusual amount of...
CLIO by Alicia Marie Devers
CLIOBy Alicia Marie Devers
“You have no idea what you’re doing, do you?” he asked.I stood on the edge of a high cliff where the water far below me hit the rocky enclosure. I knew...
THE HUNTED by Tinka Harvard
THE HUNTEDBy Tinka Harvard
Daniel lifted his head from Thieme’s Atlas of Anatomy and slid his glasses off, turning his ear toward the door. Being inside warm and cozy during rain storms was one of his favorite...
DARES by John Bliss
DARESBy John Bliss
March 2003, I received a flyer about a conference exploring the psychoanalytic collaboration of Masud Khan and Donald Winnicott. The two men were prominent members of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Their collaboration...