By: Sheila Vaccaro On a quiet, damp morning in Southeast Pennsylvania, a mother and her young son visit a two-block park at the edge of town.  It is a hazy, earthy smelling square.  Through the center of the park, tall…

By Robt. Emmett Doris and Bert were standing on my veranda when I awoke. I hadn’t seen either of them in nearly two decades. Why now, I wondered? “Are you going to ask us to sit?” Bert asked.  “Yeah, sure,”…

By: Martin Groff             All of this wouldn’t have been so bad if Margaret hadn’t just found out about her father. Ten years he had cheated on her mother. Ten years their family had been nothing but a lie.            …

By: Toney Dimos Georgina dropped him off at his place in the evening.  “There must be a party going on across the street,” she said, noticing all of the cars in front of Maria’s house  “Want to crash it?”            …

By: Ruth Z Deming How delighted I was to learn that Eileen was moving in with her grown son after living with her husband Bill in Florida. Bill had died a lingering death of emphysema. When they had visited here…

By Doug M. Dawson             Percy Rainbow felt he’d seen a lot in his nearly seventy years, though he really hadn’t. He started life in the deep south, migrated up to Baltimore to work in its factories in the late…

By: K. A. Williams I work in returns at abig department store.The hours are longbut it’s never a bore. “I’d like a refund,”said the man with a bag.I pulled out the itemand scanned its tag. The computer searchedbut there was…

By: Ruth Z Deming She’d kept his photo at the bottom of her jewelry box, under her stunning wedding ring that bastard Stewart had given back, after the four children were grown. She took back her maiden name, Goodland, had…

By: Todd Mercer 1. “I’m telling you James, that poor woman over there endured the whole winter by herself. The worst one since ’78, and her man left her to it. At least since November, I saw her packing those…

By: Jim Woessner After Junk ’n Haul emptied the house, Bryan took a last walk through before the demolition crew arrived. It was the first time he’d been inside since the funeral. He assumed there was nothing of value left,…