SANDCASTLES by Kamila Stopyra
SANDCASTLESby Kamila Stopyra
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Dry air from the nearby desert touched Alan’s delicate face. The 13-year-old nodded politely to an old man speaking to him. Yet, the boy was too focused on desperately trying to stop...
THE COOKIEMEISTER By Stan Dryer (Frank Bequaert)
THE COOKIEMEISTERby Stan Dryer
Childhood memories come and go. An image on television, a friend’s joke or a single word can trigger an explosion of memories, a chain of remembrance plucked out of the past....
CLOSING TIME by Edith Boyd
CLOSING TIMEby Edith Boyd
Mr. Colton’s wife sounded nice on the phone. She called the store often, and when she did, I got a good feeling, except when she was upset about one of their...
STOLEN CANOES by Charles R. Stieren
STOLEN CANOESby Charles R. Stieren
Backwoods of Mississippi, Present Day
The ice-maker dumped ice into the tray and woke me. I’d fallen asleep on the couch. As I stumbled through the darkness to my bedroom I...
LUCKY PEOPLE by Christine Terp Madsen
LUCKY PEOPLEby Christine Terp Madsen
On the eighteenth anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Bubbe Jozef and Zayde Sofia gave up.We are tired, they wrote, tired of trying to become who...
ZODIAC COLLEGE by Chukwuebuka Festus
ZODIAC COLLEGEby Chukwuebuka Festus
Love seeketh not itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care,But for another gives its ease,And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.
Love seeketh only self to please,To bind another to its...
DISAPPEARED SOUNDS by J.C. Sullivan
DISAPPEARED SOUNDSby J.C. Sullivan
One night the week before last Jane Parker clearly heard the sound of an eight track tape clicking from one track to the next. She had not heard that click, that...
A WALK BY THE RIVER by Josh Greenfield
A WALK BY THE RIVERby Josh Greenfield
There are chemically induced medical conditions that require more than a good sponsor and strict attention to The Steps, many in fact. There is an entire pharmacological industry...