Categoría: a short story
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DARK SIDE OF NOWHERE by Mike Steeden
Stay away from the entranceshut your eyes, you’re immuneon the dark side of nowhereyou’re a charcoal cartoonLike nightmares and dreamslookalikes never look backthey say there’s no in-betweenwhen you’re just one of the packI’ll write a brand new melodydedicate it all to youwith words you can’t count onif only you knewA…
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“Disfigured” by Bill Tope
Mary was nearly perfect. Young, intelligent, and sexy and pretty, casual observers would think that she had the world by the tail. She had but one imperfection: she had six fingers on each hand. It was something she learned to live with. But she found it increasingly problematic in her…
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he’s wrong, but he’ll never know by Bogdan Dragos
he rarely goes out in the summer mainly just sits inside in his shorts and drinks beer all day and types endless words on a mechanical keyboard it’s not even attached to anything not connected there’s nothing to connect it to he’s got no computer and no electronic devices in…
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A PERFECT UNDERSTANDING by Jeffrey Zable
Like myself, you surely have at least one friend who has a solution to every problem known to humanity. I have one that I’ve known for many years and just last week while talking with him on the phone I mentioned that I was losing my hearing— this, precipitated by…
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Kingdom by Nicole Sara
We radiate a kingdom off each otherof sun that smiles rainbows to the sea,with rays that lay warm alleys to the moona blue and yellow ever winding odyssey… We are both fate and longing to each other,a scales that weighs long hours in the skies,soon-coming moments that shimmer ratherthan older…
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“Cover of a Book” by Bill Tope and Doug Hawley
“Can I buy you a drink?” the tall, rumpled man asked the petite woman in the tavern. She was a looker, he thought, lightly licking his lips. She narrowed her green eyes at him, looked him up and down, and replied, “I don’t know, can you?” Ralph became newly conscious…
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blessed to live in interesting times by Bogdan Dragos
she had those ridiculously long and sharp fake nails that doubled the length of each finger Those on the right hand were painted silver and those on the left black and she liked to poke things with them and one of those things was my side every time we sat…
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Schools for Fools
By John RC Potter ‘Birds in the Setting Sun’ artwork by the author’s god-daughter, Nisa Winter. I always wanted to be a teacher. Well, that’s not quite true. Since childhood, I had wanted to be a writer. However, then my mom said if she and good old pop were going…
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Last Week Thursday by Uchechukwu Onyedikam
“Our scars make us know that our past was real.” — Jane Austen “Your POS… Your POS here!” A teenage girl hawks well garnished fried Ponmo from a mini-bucket strapped to her left side; waving a machine, commonly used at point of sale, for payment. At 08:00pm sharp, Friday night,…
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“I’m Freezing” by Carolyn Babjak
“Come on, Andy! Your dad has the car ready to roll!” Mom yelled up the staircase. “Yeah, I’m coming.” Bounding down the stairs, pulling on his hoodie, Andy was still half asleep. “God, what time is it? I thought we were leaving later.” “You know your father and traffic. He…
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uncompelling gravity by Katya Mills
My eyes watch the migration of charging metal beasts in an asphalt line across the desert. in most cases i want to name things — like anxiety when I am reluctant to be social; depression when i struggle to find the energy; trauma response when the mind goes blank —…
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The systhem… by Suzanne S. Austin Hill
Wants minorities, soon the majority, to exist on the fringe of society as the most tenuous of threads. From this, the outliers will be cut and the information highway gridlocked. They seek to blackout our pages of history. My mother a child of the dimly lit, segregated South sat at…
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“Spoils” by Bill Tope and Doug Hawley
Joe Jacobs spotted something lying in the road up ahead. Puzzled, he braked, and the car rolled to a stop about ten feet in front of the mysterious object. He peered curiously through the windshield. «What is that?» he wondered aloud. Climbing out of his automobile, he approached cautiously and…
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“Perfection” by Matias Travieso-Diaz
There’s no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection,we can achieve excellence.Vince Lombardi When Maria passed away, her soul ascended to Heaven and joined the scores of others seeking admittance through the Pearly Gates. She noticed that she was able to make out the appearance of every detached…
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the great gambler by Bogdan Dragos
we all know what makes an athlete great what makes a martial artist great a fisherman a chef a mountain climber a race pilot a painter a hunter sure but what makes a gambler great? Now this is rarely if ever asked Somehow the answer, “he who wins most and…
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Crime Scene of Multiple Political Assassinations by CJ Anderson-Wu (吳介禎)
The sun sheds light on the wounded palms of Jesus— Did the assassinations happen before, or after, the crucifixion? Was the slow construction of belief strong enough to endure the cruelty of oppression? The sun sheds light on the wounded palms of Jesus— Did the perpetrators ever seek His forgiveness?…
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