WHERE THE SPIRALS LEAD by Jenny Hayes
WHERE THE SPIRALS LEADby Jenny Hayes
We were drinking iced coffee and watching a cheesy talk show with some model whose life had gone from fabulous to tragic and...
ASK ME AGAIN by Andy Spisak
ASK ME AGAINby Andy Spisak
Leah finished her call with the client and reached into the drawer for her handbag. She had agreed to meet Doug for lunch at...
THE BIG MOVE by Maria Frangakis
THE BIG MOVEby Maria Frangakis
After nine years in San Jacinto, without electricity and indoor plumbing, we were finally leaving. We were moving to la casita hermosa, the beautiful little house, as...
DORA THE EXPLORER by Terry Engel
DORA THE EXPLORERby Terry Engel
I used to watch the news all the time, especially this little blonde girl that covered the afternoon shift on CNN. Her name was...
SUMMER STORMS by Omar Essa
SUMMER STORMSby Omar Essa
The geese are unkind. They stand militant along the border of the pond like NYPD officers during parades in Manhattan, as if the pine trees...
WHAT IF by Erin Bank
WHAT IFby Erin Bank
“Can’t I have your seat?” The young woman fails to notice any pertinent details of the world around her, besides the five large shopping bags...
APPROXIMATE by Mark Jacobs
APPROXIMATEby Mark Jacobs
“So how much does Beth tell you about me?”“You know us, Edna. We talk.”“About my sex life?”“We talk about a lot of things. It’s what keeps...
YOUNG by Nicole Reinholdt
YOUNGby Nicole Reinholdt Wednesday morning, when Kyle picked me up for school in his dad’s grey Buick Skylark, he had Neil Young's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere playing over the stereo. Since the two of...
DEMOCRACY AT WORK by Thomas Kearnes
DEMOCRACY AT WORKby Thomas Kearnes
Den Mother, of course, was not her real name. While she spoke, Jameson swished the name Greta around his mind. Greta, Mother Greta, the Den Mother....
HELPING DAD by Sue Brennan
HELPING DADby Sue Brennan
The holiday wasn’t going well, and finding out that Dad couldn’t swim after we’d jumped off the boat wasn’t the half of it. Mick and Andy had...
