By: Janet Brown I was standing by the entrance to the dining area of St. John’s Mission when an old disheveled guy came waltzing in slowly, with a “far away” look […]
St. John’s Mission
Morder
By John Blair She’s gone and it’s all my fault. Loneliness is just a word, but it sure can choke you. A few steps out of the door and my sore eyes […]
Closet
By: Caroline Piermattei She heard the chirp, the squeak. Then the black blur scurried past her leg. He climbed the tree then ran, having what looked like fun. Black squirrels, She strained […]
Red
By: Harvey Huddleston He’d been there a few times before, the BARC shelter. It stood for Brooklyn Animal, then whatever starts with an R and Center. The R might be for relocation […]
The Clinch Brothers
By: T. Peer D. C. Damen entered his detective section beneath the proclamation, Our day begins when your day ends. Beyond a rather pragmatic occupational dictum the homicides, suicides, and accidents stuffed […]
Lockdown
By Ellis Shuman They were seated two rows ahead of me on the half-empty plane and without seeing their faces, or knowing anything about them, I could tell that they were totally […]
Bicycle Built for Two
By: James Bates A tandem bicycle was the last thing Liz and I bought before she left me for her personal trainer, a muscle-bound guy named Zeke. “I’m never coming back,” she […]
Pigeons and Prognostications in the Time of the Virus
By: Leon Kortenkamp Pigeons and Prognostications in the Time of the Virus They toss breadcrumbs like gods dispensing blessings from on high. The pigeons dart after each carefully placed crumb, the lucky ones […]
As It Was, As It Will Be
By: Teagan Wood On a roadway, slick with mud, a woman – feet swollen from standing, hands burned from the sun, fingers painted with dirt – stands waiting. In the underbrush of […]
Social
By Ramprasath Rengasamy I offered a ten-dollar note to a beggar, but he took it and threw it back on my face and walked away. It was like he slapped across my face. I woke up […]
