CHRONICLES OF THE GODS By Victor Bade
CHRONICLES OF THE GODS
(An excerpt from the novel)
By Victor Bade
Chapter 1
(This part of my journal has a very distinct feature about it that makes it quite unlike the previous ones. I know that...
ROOT By Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt
ROOTBy Jeffrey Ihlenfeldt
The elm had to go. It had been diagnosed and determined—Dutch elm disease. The broad branch with the rope swing was already yielding yellowing and twisted leaves, and they had begun to...
ACTION HERO’S EULOGY By Ben Inks
ACTION HERO’S EULOGY
By Benjamin Inks
Her Nike trainers splash by, crossing our path for the second time this misty, black morning, and she looks me in the eye (if only for the briefest of curious...
THE STORY OF HENRY: CHAPTER & VERSE By Elizabeth Gauffreau
THE STORY OF HENRY:CHAPTER AND VERSEBy Elizabeth Gauffreau
When Francis strolled into Carney’s Restaurant for his morning coffee, a newcomer sat at the counter having coffee and doughnuts and reading the morning paper like a...
ALMOST ANYTHING GOES By Tony DAloisio
ALMOST ANYTHING GOES
By Tony D'Aloisio
A bunch of guys in striped shirts were trotting out onto the playing field, holding large metal plates piled high with whipped cream. They carried them across a shallow pit...
THE MOON GARDEN By Jan Marin Tramontano
THE MOON GARDENBy Jan Marin Tramontano
Jillian stood in the kitchen. She put her coffee cup in the sink and leaned against the counter. “I’m sorry, Blake, but it’s sick. If I were you, I’d...
TWICE A WEEK THE WINTER THOROUGH By Dan Berick
TWICE A WEEK THE WINTER THOROUGH
By Dan Berick
“This is another one of my mother’s great ideas.”
That was all that I could think of as I stood in the gray slush on the sidewalk...
SHADOWS IN EMPTY ROOMS By Mike D’Angelo
SHADOWS IN EMPTY ROOMSBy M. Cid D’Angelo
There’s Pat Methany on the radio: misty music somehow in the somber glow of the dash lights. A lonely train chugs through the tune and the trucker...
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SIGHTSEEING By Read Trammel
SIGHTSEEINGBy Read Trammel
The moment she saw the inflatable pink rabbit drunkenly folded over in decreasing tumescence, Samantha longed to kick it. More, she wanted to beat it, to feel that smack slap of hands...
(IN)SIGNIFICANT OTHER By Kelly Smith
(IN)SIGNIFICANT OTHER
By Kell Smith
Attraction is a science, they say, all chemicals and hormones, a type of alchemy that turns strangers into gold. The right physical proportions, the right smile, temperament, were each components in...