By: Carl Papa Palmer Dad, are you on the website? No, I’m on the telephone with you, Son.I know that. Do you have the website up on your laptop?Oh. Yes. I think so. It says, ‘Verify your identity.’ Good! Click…
By: ALI Hasnain The elevator in the Marlowe Building had buttons for twenty-three floors and one blank brass circle beneath them. Nobody mentioned the circle during Adrian’s first week at the records office. By his second week, he had learned…
By: Prin Sairungsri The house had forty-two boys that term. They were loud in the afternoon and quiet at night. Study hall at seven. Lights out at eleven. The proctor walked with a flashlight and checked the knobs of the…
By: Christopher Johnson To Ulee Newman, his grandmother’s Victorian house was a place of comfort and safety and marvels and magic, all in one. Grandmother Hanson, her name was—his father’s mother, and she lived about a mile from his house—or,…
By: Ethan Goffma Son: Father, our black cat is invisible at night and so an excellent hunter. Yet he has a white spot that can give away his position as he lies hiding, waiting to pounce. Is there some biological…
By: Garry Fourman On a mild morning during my final weeks in Fiji, I visited a small fishing village, gathering material for a project on how storytelling can be used effectively in teaching. I sat on a beach with an…
By: Barbara E. Dolan Bethany was a young lady with two children, a boy and a girl, the loves of her life. But for the first time in her life, she found herself needing to raise her children on…
By Douglas Young “Soon after the clock strikes one…” Dorsey Cullen shouted across the lawn at Waller Patton College. “Planet Pax rocks the Straight Arrow,” his bandmate Jasper Wilcox replied with a grin. “It’ll be balls to…
By Tristen Eason A handsome man, adept at growing tall in his youth, Sean always arrived through the campus buildings to greet me with a smile and offer to buy me and any other friends with me a coffee….
By Douglas Young Clyde Thompson and Sedona Watts held hands driving up the rural, two-lane highway. They had almost reached the mountainous Thadeus Holtzclaw State Park where Sedona had tried to get Clyde to go camping for years. Though…