“When I began the final stage of my quest to take control of my holy soil, I did so from the opposite side of the world, here in my original, and yet again, homeland… more
Tag Archives: Fiction
James, Transcendent, Everyone Else, Stuck in the Mud
FICTION by Jimmy PetardWhen Mary finds him, she’s going to punish him. He will inadvertently disarm her probably, she knows, imagining a headfirst hug at the bottom of the slide, a tangled pile, wheezing and wild with laughter. The smiling cherub laughs, anger wilts.… more
Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock
FICTION by Steve Passey“We come in a rental car, white or black or silver, and we bring with us the “Notice to Quit” and the lawsuit. Sometimes the houses are empty, the owner gone with the foreclosure notice. They slink away to another place to forget this place and these times… more
Frankie Would Be Almost Nine
FICTION by Rod Siino“I could hear the echoes of boys’ voices coming from the graveyard over fifteen years before. What I’d lost, I realized, was a chance… more
The Pine Barrens at Night
FICTION by John Crawford“Our friend said he wasn’t feeling right, that he didn’t trust himself to be alone. This isn’t the first time he’s called in a moment of crisis. We don’t want to leave a man behind, so we go… more
The Weekender: Recompensate, He Said
GENRE NON-BINARY by Robert James Russell“Everett Root rolled the dented Dance revolver around his index finger and holstered it as if he were some dashing and wily roughrider… more
