By Rhiannon Bird Every week you were gone my steps slowed, every day you were gone the emptiness trickled in, every hour you were gone it was harder to breath. People told […]
Waiting
The Truth of the Matter
By: Alexander Kemp Life is good. Life is beautiful. This is my thought as I take a final look over my notes. My students, adults with disabilities, file into the classroom. Phone […]
Memorable
By: Alan Swyer “I’ve been thinking about the wedding,” Clementine said over a dinner of coconut soup, string beans, and duck larb on a chilly February evening at their favorite Thai restaurant […]
Afloat
By Eric Burbridge It rained for twenty-four hours before Emory decided to get high. The cast on his shattered left leg and hip itched like hell. He needed relief and waved the […]
Anchors Aweigh
By: Alan Berger We told and tell people we met in Church. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral yet. That would be a falsehood, but she liked saying it. She called herself “A romantic […]
Electric Hedge Trimmer And My Missing Fingers
By: Dan Cardoza It’s late October, my favorite time of year. I can smell the damp rust of autumn leaves in the crisp air. I vow to take my sweet time on this […]
Bottoms Up
By: Alan Berger What a wonderful year it was for business. An architect with a waiting line was he. Word gets around after you do a few good buildings. Then again, I […]
‘2028’ by Vanessa Cutts
By: Vanessa Cutts The question asked to describe something complex in simple terms. Ray looked around the room at the calendar, at the clock, the laptop and then noticed an executive toy […]
The Art of Conversation
By: Alan Berger My internet bill somehow didn’t get paid on time, after time, and they finally shut it down. I guess I put it aside to cover the rent, which hasn’t been […]
Sisterhood
By: Gudrun Roy Me and my sister both applied for college the same year. She was a braniac so she graduated school a year earlier than she should have. We both wanted […]
