Saturday, 3:20 PM. The woods behind school. Our plan to get stoned hits a snag when Danny and I happen upon a four-foot-deep hole, and stand peering down at our teacher, Mr. Jacobi, immobile at the bottom. An evil, booze-infused smell fills the air.… more
Tag Archives: Kids
The Goalie
FICTION by Frank ReardonMy entire ten years of life on earth was spent keeping people from fighting with one another. “Not in front of the kid” were the famous words I heard. Grandma told me one time that I was an angel sent by God to help heal the family. None of my uncles nor my grandfather liked it much when my grandmother talked like that.… more
Doing Something is Better Than Doing Nothing
FICTION by Michelle Ross…nobody else volunteered to be the first-aid instructor’s victim after that. But victims they became, nonetheless.… more
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
What Our Fathers Knew
FICTION by Alan Stewart Carl“We think about our wives, our children, think about our fathers: they would have known how to make a loser laugh, how to get a winner to pay.… more
