Comments Off on Dan Crawley ~ What Others Do About It
Theo sat in the tiny dining room next to the kitchen, trying to concentrate on a book he wanted to read for a long time now. In lieu of a dining set, there was [...]
It was their own damn fault for daytime drinking. You don't wave wads of cash around in front of a woman who can't afford to buy the drug that keeps her alive [...]
The dining room, electric with the shifting of wool and the static that hums over the tables in the form of speculation and vibrating conversation, leans [...]
Wayne knows that the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library downtown opens at 10 a.m. on Tuesday-Saturday and never one minute earlier, not even when it’s raining and [...]
Comments Off on Graeme Carey ~ Expelled from Eaton Park
Another head poked through the small opening in the door. This time it belonged to Rory, the floppy-haired kid from next door. He was wearing a Santa [...]
Comments Off on Abigail Greenbaum ~ Beauty Is Pain
The hospital where Petra was born, her mother would later tell her, ran out of drugs the week of her birthday, so her mother screamed for hours, and her [...]
Soupmann is Superman’s third cousin twice removed. Unlike his relative, Soupmann set his priorities logically and succinctly. He fights for truth and [...]
Comments Off on Kim Magowan ~ Wheels Inside Wheels
Her death is sudden, so there is no time to prepare—no protracted sickness. A stroke: Henry wakes to find her dead beside him, stiff and cool.
You have [...]
Even prolific swingers like us had morals. Rules to our carefree promiscuity. Rules each of us took seriously. Beth and I had been happily married, you [...]
I trace the scars that tattoo the dark skin of your shoulders in the back seat of my Volvo s80 and tell you to stop popping benzos so often. I like the way you [...]
Comments Off on Wyatt Bonikowski ~ Teenage Boy in Polaroids
The teenage boy drove a black Trans Am with an eagle on the hood. He was friends with my babysitter Rita and her friends, and she would invite them over to [...]