LIKE DESCRIBING COLOR TO A BLIND PERSON by Jim Bolone
“Put 101.9 on.”
The music we listening to no longer interested me and became noise. I preferred my own music; it helped keep me alert, the way it was on the road before losing my...
COMFORTING LIES by Jeff Dosser
Darkness fell outside DeMichael’s window, his curtains rippling with the final exhalations of a humid summer day. With a sigh, he jammed his copy of NBA 2K12 into his Xbox wishing, his mother could...
WAIT THREE MINUTES by Tanya E. E. E. Schmid
Wait Three Minutes
by Tanya E. E. E. Schmid
“Go!” she called through the closed door. The toilet lid was cold.
Sitting there, she noticed how clean Jim’s bathroom was. No dust bunnies in...
WAVING AT STEVIE WONDER by Ted Larsen
Waving at Stevie Wonder
By Ted R. Larsen
Writing as Amy Bradigan
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Hal would like to fluff his pillow, but it hurts too much to move. After considering it, he decides an unfluffed pillow will be...
REMEMBER HOW WE WERE by Jonathan Vollinger
Remember How We Were
by Jonathan Vollinger
She’s early today.
I get out of bed. I put on my robe and slippers, then I’m moving slowly down the hallway. At the end of the hallway I pass...
THE DYER’S DAY OUT by Nageen Rather
THE DYER’S DAY OUT
Reclining against the mud-plastered wall, Gulzar Khan’s soft-natured wife Noor opened the copper lid of the samovar and blew a mouthful of air into its chimney. After adding a pinch of...
RAIN AND COFFEE by Mehreen Ahmed
Sweet Callings
Another hot day in the savannah, the young man, barely 24 wouldn’t take his eyes off her picture on facebook, I wrote as I looked out at a collage of zebras and giraffes...
TOGETHER AT LAST by Ruth Deming
TOGETHER AT LAST
Thud! That’s me, playfully hitting myself in the forehead, wondering why I hadn’t thought of this before. Go and visit her. Go, even if you have to pay someone to drive you...
7513 STEADMAN ST. by Hussein Alkadhim
7513 STEADMAN ST.
After coming back home from work one night, sitting down to a bland microwaved meal and flipping through the channels in the dark, I suddenly felt conscious of myself and everything, or...
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE by Giusi Rotondo
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
BY
GIUSI ROTONDO
"A baby who’s born dead doesn't need to go through the process of living an entire life. The need to have a body has been satisfied. We must imagine that...