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Fiction: How To Survive As A World-Hopper

1. You are not the tangled Spider Plant your seventy-five-year-old foster mom (five worlds ago) made you water every day. So stop sending...

Flash Fiction: Mount Barry

It was a misty, rainy night when it appeared. I sat in my car, feet up in the passenger seat, sipping a coffee as I admired the view. A...

Short Story: The Binoculars

Kevin craved the binoculars, a 40th birthday gift for Father from Mother. For two weeks he fantasized about spying on the farmer who wore...

Flash Fiction: Obsession

Janet wandered slowly down the street; she had an hour before she had to meet Mandy for lunch at Sushi Supreme. Her eyes roamed over the...

The Integration

The ice house raised out of the blank desert canvas like a wart, larger and uglier than everything around it, a boil on the finger of...

An Accident

Samantha is steadfast in her determination to tempt, as she holds a spoonful of peanut butter in front of Brutus’ face. Brutus looks at...

Short Story: Always a Good Boy

“You silly little boy.” Silvia laughed at Antonio as she taunted him into a rage. She had challenged him to prove that he was really the...

Short Story: A Grandfather Clock, a Pick-Up Truck, and a Bald Man

It is raining (though barely). The temperature is a cool and steady sixty-one degrees. It is early morning in a Chicago suburb. Birds...

Leipzig Mantra & Other Poems

TO JACKSONVILLE Peg-o-my-heart, you promised I could help feed the bass sluicing like bastards in your farm pond; that you’d let me...

Flash Fiction: The News

They say the loss of a twin is akin to a ghost limb, an itch never scratched; a sore never healed. David is not sure. He is visiting his...

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