Five years I had tended to an increasingly severe depression. It had no identifiable beginning. Or if it did, we were not aware of it. The liveliness of her manner dimmed in a strange progression. Her highs were always attaining the same height, but her lows found newer and newer depths. Until the highs became a tolerable apathy, then nothing. … more
Tag Archives: Relationships
Lights Out Helena: Montana, 1992
FICTION by Joel WayneOnscreen, George Bailey is wandering the streets of Bedford Falls, pacing by the house of the girl he is meant to be with but doesn’t know it yet. I cry when he shakes her like a rabbit. You think I don’t know that love?… more
Cool Red
FICTION by Ellen Davis SullivanIf it weren’t for the rabbit, he could make it all work.… more
Will You Completely, Eagerly, Hungrily Devour me
FICTION by Marcus WhiteI reach for your hand, but you pull away, sweat splattering across the ground. You shoot me a questioning look and I pretend to read about how ostriches don’t actually stick their heads into the ground. It shouldn’t be a big deal. But it’s hot and I hate the zoo. Maybe, I should just smile… more
Master Plan
FICTION by John MeyersI will sit in my company’s unfinished office space with a woman I hardly know and tell her everything about me, from the most deeply personal details to the most inconsequential. During our interaction I will drink high-quality gin to facilitate the telling.… more
Marriage Laundry
FICTION by Mahdis MarzooghianSam was teetering underneath that fragile leave-stay threshold. She had to make it just past that…… more
Bittermoon
FICTION by Joel WayneDrunk and jealous in an exotic locale, he wonders: “What’s the opposite of a honeymoon?”… more
Parallel Lives
FICTION by Joseph RathgeberSometimes he thinks he’s living parallel lives. He was reading about some kid, I’m sure, no younger than himself, who had died in a cave—what do they call it—spelunking? One local news channel reported that. Another said he and his friends were only exploring it. They just went in and never came out. Not until… more
Crusher
FICTION by John Oliver HodgesBalloons lined the curb beside the dumpster there, a festive splash of color to coronate the grand opening of the new supermarket down the block. I found it cute, so cute that I was like the guy who missed the UFO over the splendor of an aurora borealis. When sunsets do fun things in Jersey,… more
Satan Stole Her Soul in Vain
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Zak Block“But before we ‘made love’ (or whatever you like) we went to the laundromat, and before that, we were in a bar…”… more
