BECAUSE IT FELT GOOD by Nikki Munoz
BECAUSE IT FELT GOODby Nikki Munoz
Have you ever felt halved? You think that you find someone that you can share your life with. And you think that that entails being the person’s other half,...
BAD DAYS COME IN DOZENS by Gabriel Sage
BAD DAYS COME IN DOZENSby Gabriel Sage
I’ve always gotten lost or mistaken directions. It’s been happening as long as I can remember. My internal compass completely broken – a sundial at night. I was...
A FEW DOZEN EGGS by John Wells
A FEW DOZEN EGGSby John Wells
He is standing in the batter’s box in Oriole Park at Camden Yards facing Roger Clemens wearing a Baltimore Orioles uniform. The bases are loaded in the bottom of...
NUMBER SIX by Leslie Kain
NUMBER SIXby Leslie Kain
Having spent two hours testifying in court on behalf of one of her patients, Dr. Samena Burns headed to her office. It was a brilliant spring morning, with daffodils nodding their...
AQUARIUS by Robert Perron
AQUARIUSby Robert Perron
Rita appears in Stan's doorway forearms extended, middle fingers raised. A faded AC/DC T-shirt—red thunderbolt on black background—hangs past her knees. She's short, thinks Stan, but who isn’t these days? The last...
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GRACELAND by Shawn Van Horn
GRACELANDby Shawn Van Horn
Sometimes, on the worst days, I walk the paved trails that snake through Graceland Cemetery. No king rests there, just thousands of us everyday paupers. Graceland calms me when I need...
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TURKEY by E. P. Tuazon
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TURKEYby E. P. Tuazon
My colleague, Faruk Irgulu, was talking. Faruk was the head of our English Department at the school we taught at and sometimes that...
SOMEPLACE WARM by Paul-John Ramos
SOMEPLACE WARMby Paul-John Ramos
1About every 20 to 30 minutes, I put my hand on the radiators and pipes. It was usually bedroom radiator on the far right, pipe running down through the bathroom, then...
THE NIGHT MAINTENANCE MAN by John Tavares
THE NIGHT MAINTENANCE MANby John Tavares
Occasionally, when she felt lonely and depressed on graveyard shifts at the hospital, June had late night trysts with the night maintenance man in her locked broom closet and...
THE FOX AND ITS CATCHER by J.R. Night
THE FOX AND ITS CATCHERby J.R. Night
Oh, he would get him today. Months had passed, and he had maintained this charade long enough. All students were required to eat their lunch in the cafeteria....