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...
TAKEN FROM THIS WORLD by Alan Berger
Taken from This World
Johnny just couldn’t do it. All he had to do was go over and shake the kid’s hand and say
welcome and things that happened might not have happened at...
BLACK LOVE by Frannie Gilbertson
Black Love
Devon
She stood up and stretched her arms above her head, the sheet slipping down to her waist. I wanted to reach out and trace the line of her spine. It was so...
ZANZIBAR by Robert Gamer
Zanzibar
Short Story
Robert Gamer
“Do you mind if I sit down?”
Although, nursing a drink, the woman sitting at the bar did not stir, the man proceeded to plop himself down on the adjacent stool....
WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? By Glynn Germany
WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR?
"I don't need his ideas, okay? Or any old crap full of vacuum tubes and God knows what. I need his face. Not his ideas. And for sure not his mouth....
SAVING THE PICTURE SHOW by Ed Nichols
Saving The Picture Show
There was a rumor all over Clarkesville, Georgia. The picture show was going to close. The Habersham Theater. It had been operating since way before World War Two....
THE SHORESIDE by Sean Fisher
The Shoreside
by Sean Fisher
Erik stared at the photo, gripped tightly in his hands. The waves violently crashing onto the shore in front of him. A storm was quickly brewing. He brought his eyes up...
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...
TART by Guy Preston
Tart
Guy Preston
The global rankings had been announced the night before and on the day the athletes filed in to the stadium, some floated and some dragged their feet. In their quarters, the athletes had...