Fiction - Year V - Number 29 - October 2019

LUZCINDAby Adrianna Zapata Sitting at the bench under her window sill, Luz Rivera could make out the entirety of her street. The road separating the two lanes of houses is narrow, making it so nobody...

MELANCHOLYby Dell R. Lipscomb “I got an application from somebody at Alton Diabetic Supplies,” Paige stated. “Lanesha Timmons. She listed you as a reference.”It took a few moments for Louisa Barrow to remember her erstwhile...

FIRE OF THE GODSby Nofel Nawras ‘Your darn right I’m het up. I want to know who that varmint is and what he’s a doin’ on my land.’Maisy Lou was low down trailer trash from...

DOWNTOWN WALDOSby Mark Massaro  Riley, my pot-dealers girlfriend, arched her body over the enormous yoga ball in front of my while I sat on their couch as he weighed out quarter bags on a digital...

ZAMBONI PUDDLEby Joe Miller “Can’t now,” she says. “You’re going to have to take him.”He knows an extra shift for Stacey means time and a half, and extra cash for them, but the alternative feels...

LUCAS PARRABy Jose Recio  It’s the year 2010, and Lucas Parra can’t wait to be there! He’s returning to his old town in Spain, where he was born and raised. His parents immigrated to America...

WHERE THIEVES BREAK IN AND STEALby Chase Dearinger Friday Afternoon             As Carl took the exit marked SH 33, confidence dissolved into panic.  His veins narrowed with the road.  The two-lane state highway meant that the Cimarron...

COMPANIONby Mark Hurtubise In a small round city park, Timothy, an almost unconditionally-loved young boy, frequently played alone under 16 oak trees sharing the perimeter with eight wooden picnic tables. Unlike imaginations around him, he...

NOTE TO THE CHILDRENby Claudia Geagan For Reese, for Randall in heaven, for Betsy, Helen, Carol and you too Patti-Cake, April 21.This is one letter from Dad for everybody so you all get the same words. ...

THE SPECTRUM OF GREATNESSBy Jared Alexander Introduction The South Side Bandits were a Chicago-based youth organization football team. John O'Reilly, a retired blue-collar worker with balding hair and green eyes, coached the team, yet the athletes...