BETWEEN THE AISLES by Jessamyn Violet
BETWEEN THE AISLESby Jessamyn Violet
Fixation: An obsessive preoccupation.Sometimes, the only thing I can do to keep my mind off of him is to go shopping—mainly for cheap, useless items that make me more aware...
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GREEN EYES by Miles Hall
GREEN EYESby Miles Hall
Every time he leaves the house, Nathan feels a pair of judgmental eyes damning him for his sins. On Tuesday, when Nathan went outside to check the mailbox, he saw them....
FOURTH OF JULY CONFESSION by Amber Brandau
FOURTH OF JULY CONFESSIONby Amber Brandau
The town’s streets were lined with American flags, signaling another Fourth of July was here. I walked down the old brick streets that paved the historical part of our...
THINK LIKE A THIEF by Jim Zinaman
THINK LIKE A THIEF By Jim Zinaman
Through the glass walls of his office on the Equities Institutional Sales and Trading floor, Brass Brothers Partner Lloyd Fuchsberg glanced at his soldiers battling on his newly expanded...
LINEMAN’S HUT NO. 13 by Magdalena Blazevic
LINEMAN’S HUT NO. 13by Magdalena Blazevic The shadow is alive and Sofija knows she cannot run from it. The room's walls cannot soak it in, nor can the dark swallow it up. She pulls the...
OBSCURA by Ian Swalwell
OBSCURAby Ian Swalwell
It was too early for the cacophony, too early for the anxiety, too early for the shame, but it was there anyway. It wasn’t late enough to grab someone by the shirt...
PAID HOLIDAY by Tina Zenou
PAID HOLIDAYby Tina Zenou
The green hills come rolling up towards us. Neat hedges of brambles divide them. In the distance the glitter of the ocean.I look at all the beauty and I want to...
THE NEIGHBOR by Fiona Cooke
THE NEIGHBORby Fiona Cooke
Tommy was always the paranoid type; he bought 1,000 dollars' worth of security cameras and security locks, so if anyone were to show up, he’d see them. The only thing...
HORSEBACK by Eric D. Goodman
HORSEBACKby Eric D. Goodman
Dustin prepared the horses for another day of riding. The sun had barely risen, but he’d already put in a few hours. Earlier, he’d made breakfast—eaten three eggs, bacon, toast, and...
SPRING-HEELED JACK by Ernesto Ignacio Gomez Belloso
SPRING-HEELED JACKby Ernesto Ignacio Gomez Belloso
Gottfried and Freischütz were not artsy. They didn’t know the complexities of painting, nor did they ever bother to look into them. But they could see the beauty in...