King Larry
by Janet Richards Larry smiled with darting eyes, his jaundiced teeth glaring against the swarthy tones of his face. The heightened intensity of his movements signaled to everyone in the office that it...
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by Courtney Patkau The truck has become a safe place, a calm place where silence doesn’t seem so loud, where tangible emotions are weaved into the fabric of the seats—boyfriends, music, the stale...
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by Elaine Kehoe You first noticed it in that restaurant in Salt Lake City. Sitting at the bar, waiting for a table, you heard the sound of a glass crashing behind you. You started, looked at him and he...
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by Angela Pilson “How was your first week?” Cali counted the seventy-sixth ruby square on Dr. Harvey’s shag carpet. For a doctor, he had odd taste. She raised her brows at him, thicker and uneven since...
View ArticleSharp Tongue of a Short Life
by Alex E. Mosier “Everyone has their story. What is it that made them who they are. What situations, circumstances, this that and the next thing as well as their reaction that shaped them into who...
View ArticlePromises by the Sea
by J. Chris Lawrence and Agnostic Zetetic Shuffling through an old shoe box, my hands seize on the smooth surface of a postcard. A chill brushes over me as I gingerly caress the laminated surface....
View ArticleLearning to Kiss in the Snow
by David Tarpley she: I love him. I think I… I do… Yes, I definitely do. He makes me laugh. He is a thoroughly reliable man. (Safe.) He is always on time. He is good to me and my family. He even...
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by Anthony DeSantis After she retired, Mrs. Quaid only belly-danced andsat on our patio with us and her husband.They werehillbillies from Appalachia.No one knew why they moved to the suburbs of...
View ArticleAvailable Fortune
by Keddy Outlaw Day upon day, year after year, it got worse. The women he met shopped desperately for marriage candidates. One woman told him she knew on the very first date whether the specimen at...
View ArticleAndy Warhol’s Greatest Fan
by Lauren McLaughlin Chase took her seat in the very first row of the cabin of the plane that was to take her from St. Petersburg, Florida to Kansas City, MO, and immediately began to notice a dozen...
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