GOD’S OWN by Samuel Buckley
GOD'S OWNby Samuel R. Buckley
I. Adulthood
Nick’s fists thump the counter: come on.His teeth crush his lips: come on.His eyes move from the lurid displays set about the windows and shelves to the forbidden library...
ALL OF NEPTUNE’S OCEANS by Rina Sclove
ALL OF NEPTUNE’S OCEANSby Rina Sclove
Her hands are the only part of her that isn’t scarred.Everything else is marked, claimed, her skin varying shades of angry red and blistering purple, puckered and dry and...
THE VEIL OF JUDGMENT by Pauline Duchesneau
THE VEIL OF JUDGMENTby Pauline Duchesneau
The slam of the heavy steel door and the mechanized latching of innumerable locks dropped lead into my gut. I’d tried and failed to prepare for this moment. I...
THE GERMAN by Rees Nielsen
THE GERMANby Rees Nielsen
It was the summer of 1971 and Murrow and I were stuck in Tehran waiting for the weekly bus to Istanbul. Down the hallway this barrel chested German was leaned up...
THE WALL BETWEEN US by John C. Weil
THE WALL BETWEEN USby John C. Weil We walked with the wall between us, just as Robert Frost described.We picked up the stones, each of them still cold from the winter.I stopped a moment to...
WHALE BONE by David Massey
WHALE BONEby David Massey
The young man accompanied me outside to enjoy the air and sun. So balmy out here always in July. We walked slowly toward this swing, my favorite place to watch the...
STANDOFF AT THE COUNTRY PRIDE MOTEL, STARRING BILLY FITZ by P. J. ...
STANDOFF AT THE COUNTRY PRIDE MOTEL, STARRING BILLY FITZby P. J. Gannon
A few hours after spiking some Afghan smack in Room 5 of the Country Pride Motel, Billy considered introducing a girl into the...
WILL I DIE OF HEAT STROKE? By Ruth Deming
WILL I DIE OF HEAT STROKE?by Ruth Z. Deming
My metallic gray Nissan with its red racing stripe sped confidently into the parking lot of Staples, a seven-minute drive from home. Friendly Dave installed an...
THE LITTLE DOG by Eric Massey
THE LITTLE DOGby Eric Massey
There once was a little dog. His name was Rex. He lived in a small house in a small town. He didn’t know what the town was called because, well,...
KNOCK by Nick Farriella
KNOCKby Nick Farriella
Esme was a charity care worker or “charity care officer” as she’d like to call it when discussing her job with relatives at family functions. She’d been doing it for twenty-two years,...