By Eva Marloes The mud splashes on her white tights as she hurries down the path. She trips over and makes a big thump. ‘That’ll teach me,’ Tess remarks, now with mud […]

By Eva Marloes Morning at the Roberts’. The radio is chucking out news. Two slices of bread jump out of the toaster. Susan fills the kettle with water, puts the toasts on […]

By: Michal Reibenbach One day on our way to visit my fiancé’s daughter at her boarding school, Carl and I became lost. We’d taken this chance to do some house-hunting in the […]

By: Alan Berger If the votes come in the way my wife wants them to, I may be able to get into my wife. Please allow me to explain.She is a Republican.She […]

By: Ramprasath I never go alone anywhere. But this one didn’t go as planned. Me and my friend were planning to go for a trek in Cherokee National Forest. But he turned down […]

By: Austin J. Dalton The editor is a professional, and for that reason he typically doesn’t have time to answer questions for prying pissants like me. He punches into his shift early, […]

By: Karl Miller Prologue – Jibacoa, Cuba: July 4, 1868 In the darkness behind a large, white, two-story mansion just outside the small fishing village of Jibacoa, three rows of twenty balloons […]

By: Patricia Black-Gould “You only spit on the boys you like,” said Nancy. “Spit?” I didn’t understand. “Yeah. My cousin Renee says if you like a guy, you spit on him.” Renee just […]

By: Brooksie C. Fontaine The young woman had an unfortunate pageboy haircut that didn’t at all flatter her rotund face, somewhat emphasized by her slightly bloated skin. The pale, ashen clay of […]

By Alan Berger My pop told me instead of hanging on to crap, flush it. Got it? Yeah pop. My father was a cop. My father didn’t have a best friend. Didn’t […]