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...
A FOTOGRAFIA Para João Bernardo
A FOTOGRAFIA
De João Bernardo
Dormia profundamente, como já não fazia há muito tempo, pois tinha reencontrado a felicidade e a paz de espírito. Tinha encontrado alguém com quem partilhar o bem mais precioso do mundo....
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...
THE PLANE RIDE By Kay Merkel Boruff
THE PLANE RIDEBy Kay Merkel Boruff
There is a place where time stands still. Raindrops hang motionless in air. Pendulums ofclocks float mid-swing. Dogs raise their muzzles in silent...
BOOTS By Thomas Vollman
BOOTSBy Tommy Vollman
A few months prior to what should have been the end of my final year of undergrad, my then-girlfriend told me she was going to study...
CONNOISSEUR By Tabatha Jenkins
CONNOISSEUR
By Tabatha Jenkins
I collect people like books.
I gather love from each one as if they were a meadow.
I once knew a woman who would rise at dawn to wander through her neighbor’s field, picking...
ADVICE FROM MR. WHISKERS By Wayne Hall
ADVICE FROM MR. WHISKERS
By Wayne Hall
Nonchalantly Melvin Langley pressed the green button on the over-sized remote causing the television to come to life drowning out the silence that loomed throughout the small apartment like...
THE DOLL FACTORY By Elizabeth Brewer
THE DOLL FACTORY
By Elizabeth Brewer
I once woke to find my reflection unfamiliar. No longer a human as I had previously been, I was an old doll; cracked and broken down. Face crumbling as my...
THINE ENEMY By Caleb Dudley
THINE ENEMY
By Caleb Dudley
Men talked nonchalantly around Frederick. Simmons was currently displaying a photograph of his girlfriend back in Suffolk to an uninterested Beasley. Richards was unleashing a torrent of curses, having clumsily...
REPARATIONS By Veronica Ordway
REPARATIONS
By Veronica Ordway
Jacqueline could feel the eyes of the other people in the waiting room boring into her. She bowed her head and focused instead on the celebrities splashed across the gossip magazines that...
