Broadkill ReviewFeb 1130 min"Guru to One" by Rebecca MonroeHe waved himself off the stage though the applause hadn’t subsided any. There would be another hour signing autographs – a change made...
Broadkill ReviewFeb 1121 min"Child of Unreason" by Anne WhitehouseDreary and dull is late autumn in New England. In cold billows and gusts of wind, winter arrives ahead of its official entrance, in drenching rainstorms wher...
Jeff MorelandNov 1, 201922 min"The Bath"That November was a doozy. Ice, snow, cold. Dad was on the road non-stop, zig-zagging across the south, studying golf courses. He was head greenskeeper at...
Matthew CanneloraNov 1, 201920 min"Universal Basic"Young William sat on the lowest concrete step going up to his house. He had a corroded iron rod in his hands, and just then was scrawling shapes in the loose...
Kevin Richard WhiteNov 1, 201912 min"Bad Day"We hired the cleaning girl on Monday. By Thursday we wanted to fire her. She hadn’t stolen anything. But we just didn’t want her around anymore. I have to ex...
SC MartinezNov 1, 201910 min"The Cinderella of Sunset Park"Tonight, I have the perfect venue to show off a new drop-dead gorgeous me – my sister-in-law’s brother’s wedding party. The happy couple got married at Brook...
Thomas GenevieveNov 1, 201914 min"Smile"“Where are you sitting today?” Kathy asked her son. She already knew the answer though; the discussion was had before the tutor arrived. But instead of respo...
Mary Rose McCarthyNov 1, 20198 min"The Good Farmers"“Right then,” Father announced at breakfast about a week after mother and I returned with the new baby. “The hay’s ready to bring in and the forecast is good...
Lance HowlandAug 29, 20199 min"Airport Pickup"Balthuzar al-Muhammed tried to lock with the icy blue eyes of the interrogator. But the man, who had never introduced himself, looked just past Balthuzar’s h...
Ace BoggessAug 29, 201912 min"Pretty Purple Lights"“Just saw a UFO,” I told her. I lay in bed with my cell phone pressed to my ear, my eyes full of dazzle, brain running its pragmatic subroutines to make sens...
Melvin LittonAug 29, 201915 min"Black Moon"The pickup was loaded with furniture which he planned to sell in town. He drove slowly down the highway so the canvas tarp wouldn’t blow. There had been som...
Hudson SaffellAug 29, 201919 min"Deluge"“To look at the river now,” I said. “Makes me forget it was a dry river bottom…. We used to run circles in.” Brett and I stood on the rusted-over Union Pacif...
Don StollAug 29, 201913 min"Dust"Red dust coated the top sides of the leaves of the maize and pigeon pea plants that lined the two miles of dirt road leading to the village. Tim remembered t...
Joshua LawsonAug 29, 201915 min"The Runner"Sixteen miles. Broken up, strategized, it had seemed utterly doable: two miles out and two miles back in each direction. Quantifying it. Breaking it down. Ad...
AN BlockAug 29, 201918 min"El Creepo"I don’t look more disgusting or smell any worse, not to my knowledge, but all of a sudden on October 23rd I, Stewie Marx, am re-named El Creepo. Sprawled acr...
Ivy GrimesAug 29, 20198 min"The Other Floor"The store above the love-themed café sold hats. It took Cheyenne a year of drinking red-tinged coffee almost every day before she ventured upstairs to check ...
Bonnie E. CarlsonAug 29, 201922 min"Good Intentions"She’d followed the unfolding story with the obsessive fascination of someone passing a multi car wreck on the freeway, slowing down so as not to miss a singl...
Tim MeneesJul 1, 201911 min"Down Along the Lionel Lines"Darby always wanted to own the Santa Fe. Elaine over on the sofa had never shared his passion. She said, "Hmmm." He asked asked what "hmmm" meant. She said, ...
Glen WeissenbergerJul 1, 201915 min"Nathan's Legacy"As he reached for the phone on the bedside table at 3:30 in the morning, Garth had little doubt it was his brother calling. “Garth, he’s gone.” Henry sounded...
Michael BrantleyJul 1, 20196 min"I Didn’t Care About None of That"The air was still, like it gets in July when the whole of eastern North Carolina becomes a furnace. No breeze, no movement, nothing to keep the gnats off, th...
