Center of Insurance Against Villains
speculative fiction by H.M. Wheat The neighborhood was built in the seventies and didn’t seem to have been upgraded at all since then. All the… Read More »Center of Insurance Against Villains
Mirceau Doviescue
She had beautiful furniture and a number of fancy rugs. There was a bed, of course, with several well-worn quilts, a large comforter, and hundreds… Read More »Mirceau Doviescue
An American Story
by Kelly Lundgren Pietrucha
photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Just as I’m filling my mother’s glass with more wine, she tells me she doesn’t love my father.… Read More »An American Story
by Kelly Lundgren Pietrucha
The Tao of Wade, Sept. 19, 2005
Fussy, a few things: 1. I want acknowledgment that I was the one who named you Fussy (full name, “Little Miss Fussybritches”) way back when… Read More »The Tao of Wade, Sept. 19, 2005
Abducted
Every time they buzzed our house back then, me, I’d go for the barn, to keep the horses from kicking their stall doors out. But the wife, she’d run out after them, see?
10 Questions with Rachel Pastan
Rachel Pastan grew up in suburban Maryland and attended Harvard College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has published short stories in magazines… Read More »10 Questions with Rachel Pastan
Landfill
flash fiction by Stephen Ausherman Delores lived in a split-level ranch home set upon a landfill. She stored peach preserves in her storm cellar,… Read More »Landfill
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The Continuity of Light by Brent Foster Jones Richard and I moved into the house on Sunday: a white, two-story in Marina Del Ray that… Read More »12
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Tie Goes to the Runner by Debbie McCann Tie goes to the runner, in baseball, anyway. Remember? All those hot summer nights on our old… Read More »9
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In the Kitchen by Ilana Stanger-Ross I entered the kitchen and found my father standing over the garbage can, grimacing, eating cheese. “Your mother buys… Read More »6
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The Innocent by Annee-e. Wood When they said ovens, she imagined the soldiers wearing enormous bakers’ hats as they filed people through. She imagined the… Read More »4