CONFETTI PINK AND ASHY by Brian Riley
CONFETTI PINK AND ASHYby Brian Riley
Burbank, California, the November after September 11 and Brice Cooper has come home early from work yet again. Watching his 3-year-old son, Tyler, barreling towards him in a yellow...
SWEET DREAMS by Jasmine Dalrymple
SWEET DREAMSby Jasmine Dalrymple
It’s just a dream it’s just a dream I keep telling myself.My eyes jolt open and my heart begins to race, I’m in near sweat from that nightmare. The rhythm of my...
THOSE LOVELY FAMILY MOMENTS by Wendy Thornton
THOSE LOVELY FAMILY MOMENTSby Wendy Thornton
Once when I was a single parent, I took my daughter camping. At the time, I was determined to do all the fun things I did when I was...
HORSE AND GARDEN by Norbert Kovacs
HORSE AND GARDENby Norbert Kovacs
Gene Stamp was proud of his flower garden. He had set its plot in the middle of his backyard where any visitors would see it immediately through the bay window...
A TABLE SET FOR FIVE by Jacqueline Rosenbaum
A TABLE SET FOR FIVEby Jacqueline Rosenbaum
I think back to the map she drew, scanned and emailed to me. Addressed to My Precious Daughter. Arrows that pointed my theoretical, my inevitable movement. X’s to indicate the...
IMAGE AND VOICE by Liz Whitt
IMAGE & VOICEby Liz Whitt
It was the first time he ever saw her. He was ten years old and he could feel the warmth seeping from his skin as it rested on the smooth,...
ALL SHOOK UP by JW Burns
ALL SHOOK UPby JW Burns
No one except Katherine Duff noticed when the room began to vibrate.The papers were neatly stacked in the center of the table, stamped, initialed, factored, weighed, sealed and hyperlinked. Now...
DISTRACTIONS by John Himmelheber
DISTRACTIONSby John Himmelheber
My arms full of groceries, mostly light stuff but a couple heavy things, I was just leaving the Giant Grocery south of Baltimore. I had to adjust the load once to avoid...