At first, Jessica thinks it’s the darkness that her body needs to escape. Their tent’s air pocket of darkness. The forests’ surrounding miles of darkness. She is scrambling away from the darkness. Not the explosions opening wounds into that darkness.… more
Tag Archives: Guns
All the Birds Scattered
Fiction by Raima Larter“Look here,” he said. “A good hunter knows his weapons.”… more
Daddy Said I Had To
Fiction by Caralyn DavisThis was different than squirrels—revenge not supper.… more
Dog
Fiction by Stephen Hundley“Have you ever shot anything before?” Mary aimed the gun at Byron’s foot, and watched him step back. “You can kiss me again.”… more
The Gallows Fifty Cubits High
Fiction by Katie ArmstrongAll I can do is search the room for someone who can help me. But Marie went home a half hour ago, Saul’s sitting with his head buried in an ice chest, and all the cousins are dancing, bunched up in front of the DJ, wasted. I’ve seen worse—it’s Purim—but it might be time to panic.… more
Ventura
Fiction by Ryan Glenn Smith“We been friends a long time, Barry. But if you ever even think about goin’ to the police I will blow your goddamn head clean off… more
My Father’s .45
Fiction by Sean Sullivan“push the recoil spring into the slide chamber, forge the marriage between the barrel bore, chamber and action. Faster, he would say, when I ran the slide… more
