DRESSING THE PART by Deirdre Fagan
DRESSING THE PARTby Deirdre Fagan
The dress was boxed in 1990. The box still had the dry cleaner's receipt attached to its slightly yellowed side. Behind the cellophane window, Eva could just glimpse the beaded...
NOTHING FOR YOU HERE by Mitchell Waldman
NOTHING FOR YOU HEREby Mitchell Waldman
I've got bad news: there is nothing for you here. Nothing.Do you want to go through life in a dream state?You are nothing but a cog in their...
A HARD CALL TO MAKE by Kristine Sarasin
A HARD CALL TO MAKEby Kristine Sarasin
Before she got to the restaurant Shyanne had thought that a pair of dark wash jeans, tiny black heels, and a white crop top was a perfectly fine...
THE NIGHT WE MET by Aimee Hardy
THE NIGHT WE METby Aimee Hardy
I opened my eyes, and it was snowing.I was all alone.I lay there wrapped up in a blanket, looking out at the snow. The TV was playing softly...
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER by Alethea Tyler
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERby Alethea Tyler
One, two, three, four taps against the side of her thigh. To ground her. To calm her. Four was the perfect number. Divisible by two. The age of untouched...
FIRST SPRING SEASON by Daniel Picker
FIRST SPRING SEASONby Daniel Picker
My father disappeared in the dark that late winter when the nights still ran long into the mornings and the day still ran short with darkness falling before dinner. ...
AFTERMATH by Libby Belle
AFTERMATHby Libby Belle
She walked barefoot along the boardwalk, as she had done many times as a child, and now an adult, she saw things much clearer. The roughness of the planks beneath her feet...