ROAD RAGE by Sharon Frame Gay
ROAD RAGEby Sharon Frame Gay
The police told our family that Jason, my husband, died instantly when his car swerved off the road and down a steep ravine. That's not true. It's what police like...
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...
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...
THE COMPANY HE KEEPS by John Garcia
THE COMPANY HE KEEPSby John Garcia
He sits at an empty table in Leon Cafe in downtown Guatemala City. Looking up, he watches the uneven, twirling blades of a dust-covered ceiling fan, and slides over...
BY NO MEANS by B. P. Herrington
BY NO MEANSby B. P. Herrington
The fly skittering across the sales counter fiddled its forelegs and sprang up in an aimless drift. In the acrid odor of fertilizer and feed, Davis slouched at the...
BROTHERS by Jeremy Ford
BROTHERSby Jeremy Ford
I wasn’t sure my brother understood what happened. I knew he didn’t understand what it all meant. You see, Jacob’s didn’t process things the way you or I would. They’d told us...
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...