The World’s Best Barbershop has a sign in the window with a number below the words Call Flame, and when you call Flame says he’ll be there in ten or fifteen minutes and eight minutes later rolls up in a ten-year-old Cadillac, tinted windows a quarter-rolled down so you can see his dry cleaning hanging… more
Category Archives: FICTION
Two Stories
FICTION by Jason ArmentA Man’s Life as Wet Dog Story There is nothing more lied about than a man’s life, because there are usually at least two groups of people lying: the man’s kingdom and those loyal to the man himself. A man goes to war and fights for his country, comes back to an indifferent horde of… more
Floater
FICTION by Greg JenkinsAnd everything stays fine for a while. During this time life smells pretty fragrant to me even if the basic facts that comprise it haven’t really changed. … more
Bringing it all Back Home
FICTION by Colin Brightwell“I’ll take the I Love You Today,” I say. I take out a crumbled five dollar bill and hand it to her.… more
Boys Play
FICTION by Robin GowShe should have gone grocery shopping, she thinks. She has to go anyway. Who was she kidding? She wanted to spy on him—she wanted to see what he was up to.… more
On the Brink of Making my Big Move
FICTION by Amy LyonsIt’s just me and the stack. I adjust my chair. I breathe deep. I plant my feet. I Google productivity tips. I play a round of e-solitaire. I stare into my screensaver and see Marie laying with me in pixilated fields beneath a trademarked sun. … more
Long Night in Olongapo
FICTION by Sean WarrenA weapon slung over his shoulder looked like a portable machine gun, and a child no older than 6 or 7 years old was crouched over the cop’s boots, shining them.… more
Mr. Sentimentality
FICTION by Alex MattinglyI wanted to reassure him, but I didn’t know how to explain that I was just storing things here because my roof had caved in, or that I had to leave soon for a night of driving drunks home from a strip club, or that I didn’t need to stay here because I was sleeping in a bouncer’s garage. Explain that to Dad? I wasn’t even sure I understood it myself.… more
A Grifter in the Heartland
FICTION by Kenton SmalleyHe turned his face in the direction of travel and imagined that the world was upside down and he was running very fast to correct it.… more
Sitting Ducks
FICTION by Meagan LucasShe remembered the seconds of joy as she flew through the air, the crash of the bubbles fizzing their way up her body, but then how the chlorine burned her eyes when she opened them; when she discovered she couldn’t breathe, that she’d somehow got lost on her way back up.… more
