Tag Archives: Fiction

Googly Eyes

{Sep 16, 2019}

If Jeff hadn’t told folks it was my birthday damn-near every time we went out to eat growing up, I’d have thought someone got cute with their lighter games in Bob Evans and things had gotten out of hand. … more

Bogey

FICTION by Zachary Lunn

{Apr 8, 2019}

Over the last six months Bogey had been to a hundred different VA clinics, but this marked the first time he entered one with the aid of a crowbar.… more

To Harry’s Mother

FICTION by Kevin McFadden

{Jan 28, 2019}

Your son is a tough little bastard who can take quite a load of punishment.… more

Sparrows

FICTION by Zsombor Aurél Biró (translated by Timea Balogh)

{Dec 19, 2018}

“Meanwhile I’m thinking about how this is what a rehabilitated heroin addict should look like. Not like me, or the others. Imi has a job, money, a fiancé. In short, a life. It’s all worked out for him. Of course, it all depends on your perspective. I’m alive, so if we look at it that way, it worked out for me too.”… more

The Legend of Jon Bamboo

FICTION by Leland Cheuk

{Nov 8, 2018}

“Porn isn’t calculus.”… more

Empty by Breaking

FICTION by S. Grady Barrett

{Oct 1, 2018}

He looked in the mirror, turned to the side and sucked in his gut. Then he faced the mirror and flexed his massive arms and his stomach. He turned to the other side and extended his arm so that his triceps stiffened into the soft shape of a horseshoe. He faced the mirror again, letting his arms relax at his sides. He unfurled his body, letting his wide shoulders hang, letting his stomach out. … more

Trot Trot to Boston

FICTION by Hugh Burkhart

{Jul 2, 2018}

My wife’s mother has been with us for nearly a week. Our first few days home with our son were tough and we asked if she would fly in from the east. The request, we both agreed days before her arrival, was premature, erupting out of the seething stress following two nights in hospital after… more

Higher Ground

FICTION by Julia Hogan

{Jul 2, 2018}

For two weeks last fall, my friend Deno and I went into business together as snake removers. The reptiles had been flooded out of their normal recluses in the swamps and woods surrounding Meridian, and they had invaded people’s homes and gardens. Normally, I worked as a landscaper, HVAC repairman, and the odd handy man,… more