Short Story

Missing

Tina Lee -

1. Pepper and Sweetheart needed three walks a day—before and after work, and one in the...

Edward Abbey Walks Into A Bar

Amy Stuber -

1. When someone you’ve been dating off and on for a year calls you from the beer...

The Desert Fathers (Three Episodes from the Diary of a Retired Priest)

Daniel Hornsby -

SPOON Twenty years ago, a priest friend and I took leave of our parishes for a week and attended a retreat in the desert of...

Mary Lee

Nicola DeRobertis-Theye -

The heat was just starting to fade that October when the shark first appeared off the coast....

Doublings

Shabnam Nadiya -

The first anonymous letter arrived by mail and was addressed to me. The return address was fake. It said, ...

Long Exposure

Hala Alyan -

All week they’ve been talking about the fog. The weather channel warns of it, the vacationers bemoan...

Happy Adventure

Sharon Bala -

Hilda had dozed on the plane from Montreal and wandered out of Arrivals at St. John's in a disoriented haze. Caitlyn stood waiting at...

Auteur Theory

Fran Hoepfner -

A director was coming to Harper’s college campus to shoot a movie that fall. The night before she learned this information, Harper asked her roommate Anne...

Finding Houdini

Paola Ferrante -

Whatever Jeremy would say, the snakes were always a problem. I know if Jeremy told our story he would say he never saw the...

VJ Day

Kirstin Allio -

In August the manhole covers began to seep. Summer had the same texture as the local Eyewitness...