by Cindy Dorminy It’s not that I hate Darla—she was my college roommate after all—but it should be me at the altar next to Theo. She’s lovely in her simple gown, but I would have worn something more bridal, like what I am currently...
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by Scott Bell In the days before Sam Cable became a Texas Ranger, he served as a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety. Some days on the highway patrol were fraught with danger. Others…not so much. *** My chin dipped and I jerked...
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by Diane Barnes Henry hangs the last of thirty flyers on the bulletin board inside Holy Grounds. His eyes fill with tears as he looks at the picture of Wally with the Red Sox bandana tied around his neck. Missing Black Lab, the headline...
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by Gail Cleare Bridget Reilly tugged another piece of firewood off the stack on the back porch, and added it to the pile already in her arms. She squinted up at the white sky, where large, lazy snowflakes drifted into focus and zigzagged down...
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by J. Leigh It burped. Well, Kala didn’t actually see it burp, as the gelatinous mass of black, gurgling ooze known as an ink monster wasn’t actually, physically, there. No, the being that was perched, spitting and oozing...
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by Russ Hall He went to get a drink and his tongue lapped in a harsh rasp across the bottom of the empty bowl. Across the room his upright ones were watching the fake people in the big fake window again. A dog barked and jumped into a lap. When...
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by Casey Dembowski Hannah Their one-year wedding anniversary “There you are.” Hannah smiled at her husband—now officially twice over. She saw him in suits nearly every day, but Will in a tuxedo was another sight altogether. Maybe it was the vest...
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by Claire Matturro and Penny Koepsel Jude whispered to herself: remember this date. August 22, 1972. Beside her, Camille fingered the peace symbol on a cord around her neck and eyed the crowds. Jude’s jeans rubbed hot against her thighs...
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by Densie Webb It was a prank. A practical joke. Through the haze of slightly illicit drugs inhaled in the bushes behind the house, Evan found the plan hilarious. In the harsh, flickering florescent lights of the 53rd precinct, he had lost his...
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by Erica Lucke Dean A light dusting of snow fell, making Cooper even more nervous as he pulled into the bank parking lot for the client appreciation holiday brunch. Maybe I should wait until after Christmas. He’d had...
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by Kelly Stone Gamble The storm was a day away, but the cold winds of its impending presence bit at Helen’s cheeks and brought tears to her eyes. She hurried across the tarmac and up the steps of the waiting transport turning one last time before...
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by Barbara Conrey Here’s the thing: my story’s not about an eleven-year-old kid who is so gutsy she beats the shit out of cancer. My story’s about a kid who already knows the ending and just wants to get to the last page. Think about it. Think...
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