Tag Archives: Infidelity

Two Stories

{Dec 8, 2023}

He sobbed as he thought of her thick shins and dimpled thighs and how organized she was with paying the bills. He fantasized about how the thick black hair that grew from the right corner of her top lip tickled him when they kissed and how she held him at night.… more

Art’s Wife

FICTION by Ken Rodgers

{Dec 6, 2023}

His eyes blinked like a machine gun’s stutter. He swirled his Chivas and mumbled something—I couldn’t hear it well over the racket of wild fucking in the bedroom. Maybe he said, “Mother would never have written that.”… more

This Is Not A Toy!

FICTION by Kristen M. Ploetz

{Apr 8, 2019}

It’s when Mitch brings her to Barry and Minnie’s 14th Annual Grillin’ & Chillin’ Cookout that Barry begins to covet. A childish craving, the kind that happens when another’s new plaything renders yours boring and lame and obsolete. He takes her in from behind mirrored shades. The way she laughs at their dumb jokes, like… more

Many Ways to Find Out

FICTION by David Biddle

{Oct 30, 2017}

I might have let timidity be my guide had Hannie not started in with her Saturday sojourns. She just started disappearing. I would be in the backyard mowing the lawn or moving boxes into the attic. I would return to the kitchen for something or to make lunch and she would be gone.… more

The Bass

FICTION by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

{Sep 28, 2017}

I know I can get better if I want to. Everybody can get better if they want to. At the Duck Thru the black ladies are talking ‘bout the Bradley man that used to be sheriff in Halifax County. He killed himself yesterday. Melissa’s rescue squad was called out to it. They say he… more

The Prince

FICTION by Scott Gould

{Jan 27, 2014}

“I have discovered in previous retellings of this tale that a lack of background results in confusion, especially at the point of the second jumper cable incident… more