Category: Fiction
The Visitation by Gary Beck I was definitely feeling pleased with myself. I made it to the…
Trust Me by Dan LeichtA Charles Splints Case Halfway through ironing a white shirt using the bottom…
Before It Gets Cold by Dan LeichtA Charles Splints Case I woke up at noon. The sun…
Night Lights in Prison by Grant Tracey Broken limbs of trees darkened the way as I drove…
Summer Night, City Adjacent by Nathan Thompson “Which one’s this now?” one old-timer asked another. They sat…
Vanity Killed Me By Arielle Tschinkel ONE The sun had already set the stage for an Irish…
Ben James And The Greek Connection By Lou Normann He rushed out of his room, screamed goodbye…
King Leonidas by Keith Manos I stop eating whenever Dad tells the story about King Leonidas. How…
Riding the RAGBRAI by Mary Jo Rabe “Hell no,” Chuck Mattke said while trying to bat away…
Last Connection by James Newman It was The Bluetones, Slight Return, recorded out at Ridge Farm, ’96,…
Clovis Clayton Holiday by Frederick Foote My mother told me, “Clovis Clayton Holiday, you gonna be the…
You Know How We Are by Frederick Foote Me, I was right where I was supposed to…
The Sleeping Man by James W. Morris I was such a callow youth when hired in the…
The Fedora Angels by Jon Moray The Fedora Angels, Dominic, John, and Bernard congregated at a 50’s…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Read the other stories in this series by Tom Kropp by clicking here. Contains adult only…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Read the other stories in this series by Tom Kropp by clicking here. Contains adult…
Sing, O Muse by Wade R. DeYoung The Old Man drove home from the engine repair shop…
Good Vibes by A. M. Larouche The confirmation bubbled at the top of Langley’s screen: her most…
A Little White Lie by James C. Clar Honolulu, August 18, 1945 The early morning rain was…
Alone Again, Naturally by James Rumpel Taj scratched another tally mark into the wall of the survival…
Penmanship Lessons by David Margolin The lessons always began promptly at 3:30 pm, 15 minutes after The…
Silken Ribbon by Mehreen Ahmed Fifteen year old Dulal gets off a rickshaw. A car edges out…
Mid-morning, Ramon was at his desk when he heard Sylvia call Tish on the intercom and say…
The Great Divide by Barry Garelick The journey from Michigan to San Francisco took five days starting…
Bad Decisions by Dale Patrick Smrekar 4 a.m. “How’d you like to make fifteen hundred dollars?” The…