Dad’s out of town, so I’m tending the nursery—misting the little buds, tousling their leaves. I put some Mozart on, then Gordon Lightfoot, so Dad’s guitar-playing will feel familiar. On day four, he wants an update. No one’s flourishing yet, I tell him, but we’re all doing just fine. Tara L. Kelley is just here […]
“Become an Intergalactic Ambassador,” the sign had read. If she’d only knew then what she knew now. “Fake it till you make it,” she was told by her superiors. But it wasn’t quite so easy once they’d added four legs and two arms and removed your ears for your assignment. All things are connected. That’s […]
On my last visit, Granny fretted. Were the aliens treating Grandpa right? Until now she’d opined that if aliens could do space travel, they shootin’-sure could do the wash and fix a proper dinner. A blessing Grandpa wasn’t fussy about his meals or collars. Her faith in Him remained unshakable. Miriam N. Kotzin writes fiction […]
The kerchief was stiff with salt, sweat, and machine oil. She pressed it to her face.It was him, alright. Not much of a dad. Always working, drinking, fighting, womanizing. Never home.He couldn’t make her bedtime, but could always make her laugh.She breathed him in one last time. Paul D’Arcy tells stories. All real. Most brief. […]
She used to call every month. When we last speak, she asks if I think about her. Every day, I say. But she doesn’t believe me. She hangs up in a fury, and I stare into the last piece of artwork our daughter ever made, still taped to the refrigerator. Graham Fortier lives in Los […]
Spirit asks Flesh what he’s gonna do once that thing is through? Flesh squints, blinks, thinks. Then he puffs on the cigarette, sends a curling finger of smoke trailing up to heaven through the warm rain. “I don’t know,” he says, “wanna find out?” And she’s his. Until she isn’t. George Evans is a querulous […]
If I could do it again, I’d worry less about the package and more about the contents; less about the calories, and more about nutrition; less about the cost, and more about the value; less about being liked, and more about being likeable; less about wanting, and more about thanking. A prolific writer, Carol Reeves […]
An English student drowning in campus identity politics has an existential reckoning when she starts working for a best selling author whose novels are full of heaving bosoms. Image generated with OpenAI The gulf coast breeze blew gently through the rusted mesh on the screened porch. Del could hear the June Bugs and mosquitoes plinking […]
Mom knocked on my door after school and told me we were having dinner at 6. We always ate dinner, but when we had dinner, that meant at the table. With napkins and an important conversation. “Who died?” I asked when I sat down. “That’s not funny,” Mom said. “Grandpa.” Gracie Lyle is an emerging […]
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