By: Linda McMullen In the final three years of our marriage, John argued exhaustively with the anonymous denizens of AITA Reddit. “Goodnight, Tommy!” he’d call upstairs to our son, his keyboard […]
Not the Asshole
Open House
By: Ranjit Kulkarni At the open house of Vidya Niketan School, all students sat in uncomfortable silence. Most of them were with their mothers. Some of them were with their fathers. They […]
Another Age
By: Anthony Ward The aged man sat aloft in his chair looking towards the fireplace. Flames danced ritually, stretching into the air, before being swiped by the wind that whirred down the […]
The Snow Family
By: Bruce Levine The snow had fallen steadily for an hour, already completely coating the lawn behind their house. The three little girls, Jane (age nine), Ellen (age seven) and Barbara […]
Riddles
By: Harvey Huddleston English came easily to Roman, as had the language of every country he’d lived in. Moving in his youth from one country of the Russian Steppes to the next, […]
Hero
By: Roliena Slingerland It’s Friday afternoon. You stand at your bedroom window wondering at the sheer destruction of the Albertan wind as it flips shingles off the roof, its fist plowing through […]
Finders Keepers
By: Eric Burbridge Is that an ATM envelope on the curb? Lamar pushed his empty shopping cart quickly towards the Citibank ATM center outside Kroger. The closer he got, the harder […]
Moses Is So Over It
By: Todd Mercer Listen up, ass-hats. I mean, friends. We’ve been wandering in circles like morons for forty years on what should’ve been a two-week hike, maximum. Life is short and this […]
Bridge Appleton Buys A Boat
By: James W. White On a sparkling day when the morning fog hung back along the horizon, a conversation interrupted Bridge Appleton’s concentration while he watched a sailboat make its way upwind. […]
Coming Soon
By: Robert Walicki Acre didn’t have much going for it as towns go, but it was as good a place as any for starting over. At least it’s how Dave reasoned […]
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