TELL HER by Denise Cloutier
TELL HERby Denis Cloutier
Ellen had been married to Richard Miller for twenty years and three months on the day he died. He’d been losing his battle with cancer for the better part of a...
THE LADY WITH THE TWENTY-FIVE-LETTER ALPHABET by Richard Rose
THE LADY WITH THE TWENTY-FIVE-LETTER ALPHABETby Richard Rose
The bookshop had been quiet for most of the morning but on hearing the bell signifying that a potential customer was entering, Mr Hope glanced towards the...
WATCHING by Leandro Almeida
WATCHINGby Leandro Almeida
Have you ever gotten the feeling someone is watching you? Those chills down your spine? That sense of unease, or the prickling on your neck? Objects no longer in the spots you...
THE BOY IN RED by Sean J.H. Rubin
THE BOY IN REDby Sean J.H. Rubin
JOSEPHINE
The concert took place outside the kindergarten. Blue spruce strove to survive the prolonged dry days of Armenian summer, but the war had not helped. Dawn's light shone...
LEGEND OF THE MAGIC WOK by Lynn Dowless
LEGEND OF THE MAGIC WOKby Lynn Dowless
John Burman was as sporter. The label, sporter, was a euphemism on the phrase, front line soldier, on this new arm of the free born people called, The Patriot's Liberation Front. To...
THE DYING ROOM by Vince Barry
THE DYING ROOMby Vince Barry
“Nervous,” my wife goes, I think, ’cause she’s in the laundry room, which comes off the garage and is narrow and low beamed; so, if somebody says something, let...
GRAVITY by Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb
GRAVITYby Yvette Schnoeker Shorb
The two professors might as well have been talking in another language, for their conversation was most definitely beyond the interests of those who considered themselves ordinary. The Comparative Literature and...
CHEAP DATE IDEA: DEFILING A GRAVE by Michael Gillen
CHEAP DATE IDEA: DEFILING A GRAVEby Michael Gillen
The sun was transiting Capricorn, his tarot reading that morning was an upright star, and he had done self-affirmations all morning. David was ready to put himself...
ENTER JOSIE by Joseph Austin
ENTER JOSIEby Joseph Austin
Enter Josie. A raven-haired beauty with blue eyes sprinkled with saffron. Barbara knew her kind the moment her son, Darren, brought her through the front door. This girl looked like trouble....
ASTRAL FEARS by Dylan Ward
ASTRAL FEARSby Dylan Ward
On an icy Christmas morning Hunter is frozen in front of the Orion SpaceProbe. It gleams black in the winter light, like a mystical entity electrifying the speechless boy. When he...