Tag Archives: Fiction

Father’s Day

{May 20, 2020}

The women had left us when the heatwave began. At dusk, they had buried their heartjars in the earth and walked away. A line of women, mothers and wives, drifted through the valley. … more

Life was nothing like that. Most people repeated the same tasks over and over day after day. They got up. They went to work. They came home. If a publisher wanted realism, that was as real as it gets.… more

Barmaley Fountain

Fiction by John Talbird

{Feb 17, 2020}

In his mind, he goes to a place where he holds the hands of his school chums as they laugh and run in a circle, a snapping crocodile at the center of their daisy chain of limbs. His cousin, Elizabeth, just misses losing her black shoe in the snapping jaws and the children laugh. … more

An International Incident

Fiction by Vern Smith

{Dec 23, 2019}

“An International Incident” finds Toronto Fraud cop Alex Johnson on vacation in Cuba with a woman and a dilemma. Trouble is, an East German is videotaping a topless French woman, and Alex is inclined to let it slide. His girl, not so much.… more

Praactice

Fiction by DS Levy

{Dec 23, 2019}

I do not stare at my finjers when I type. I am su[osed to toucj the keys lightly.… more

One Bird In-Hand is Worth Ten in the Bush

Fiction by Michael Hammerle

{Nov 11, 2019}

My grandma was glaring at Trixie’s fixings willing her to lie in the neat bed she’d made. Pearl was lying on her back with that piece of wood in her mouth. She was dusty and had her straw bedding stuck to her in small patches, some on her underbelly. All of her paws were outstretched to the sky. She was letting the piece of wood fall from her mouth and recatching it. Trixie’s phone was face-up flat on the dining table. The phone rang and we all looked to her expecting it to be Croker. Trixie quickly silenced it. … more

Notorious Thugs

Fiction by Josh Olsen

{Nov 11, 2019}

As soon as we finished packing up our 40s, and taking our open bottles along for the ride, we were headed to the cornfields, our commute narrated by The Notorious B.I.G.… more

Shadow Boxing

Fiction by Stephen G Eoannou

{Oct 14, 2019}

An older man’s confrontation in a gym parking lot leads to consequences… more

Googly Eyes

Fiction by Shane Stricker

{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

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