Fiction

Passes

K.C. Wolfe -

The first week I was back in Syracuse, Pat met me at my parents’ house, where I would be living again, three months after...

Cut

Peter Orner -

San Francisco (1997) She’d hurt herself in small ways. Nobody knew about it. She’d take a knife and slowly deliberately gently slice her thigh....

The Waterproof Bible: an excerpt

Andrew Kaufman -

1 The woman who couldn’t keep her feelings to herself The limousine taking Rebecca Reynolds and Lewis Taylor to the funeral had stalled in...

Hexbreaker

Rob Benvie -

Mere days before my brother-in-law Richie was shipped off to southern Afghanistan, and seven months before the LAV III he and two fellow light...

Margene’s Two-Year Anniversary

Michelle Miller -

Margene is all the way out of bed and into the bathroom before she realizes what day it is. It's Gladys who reminds her....

Evening Meal, Streambed, Bicycle

Gary Barwin -

THE EVENING MEAL My father rolled up our house and walked into the forest. When he arrived at the world’s edge, he turned, pulled up...

The Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird

David Laskowski -

The Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird When asked by the Committee on Acknowledgment for A Purpose to Be Named Later to choose a...

Thirty-Seven Women

Carolyn Black -

We were a community of thirty-seven women. Each woman lived alone in one of thirty-seven apartments in our six-storey building. The tall caretaker with fine...

Crossing the Rubicon

Holly Flauto Salmon -

I watched the road, the lines, the median, and the trees. I drove beside a bicyclist, and I could feel the steering wheel wanting...

Coyotes

David Ross -

The reason I ended up alone in Marta’s closet was that being caught by her parents would have changed everything, and in those days...