In the kitchen, he asked, “Has it been a good life?” Such a profound question. It’s forty years together. Betrayals, indifference, hot burning anger, flashes of joy, perfunctory kisses. “Not really,” I say. It’s a revelation. “Get your hearing checked,” he shouts. “I asked, have you seen the good knife?” Brenda is a retired university […]
A girl foolishly takes the terrible risk of walking across a grass field barefoot. Image generated with OpenAI Maybe it wasn’t a great reason, but it was the honest reason, nonetheless: I was curious. Simply curious. I had seen my brother go barefoot my entire life – had seen his summer-bronzed feet padding over soft […]
Do you need a tissue?Is everything okay?Are you a person full of fear about the way we treat each other, just like me?Do you ever wonder how we found ourselves in offices, checking in and touching base under artificial light?Can you go home for the day? Nina Feinberg is a writer, photographer and distance runner. […]
At exactly midnight, the clock struck, and Ramin Taham stood before the door, though he had no memory of arriving. Behind it, another room. A man in a suit handed him a letter, sealed with no name. “Your fate,” the man whispered, vanishing. Ramin opened it. The paper was blank. Mohammad Abedi is a novelist, […]
I entered my marriage with a moving van full of living room furniture – a couch, love seat, accent chairs, a maple desk, and three nested tables. The legs wobbled. The colors clashed. I walked out of my marriage carrying a gym bag – jeans, tops. shoes, books, and a turkey sandwich. Roberta Beach Jacobson […]
You laughed when I said I wanted to be a tree. Time and age chewed on my youth, wrinkles turned my smooth skin to bark, and my bones creaked when the wind blew hard. You planted me deep down. Our great grandchildren laugh in my shade. Jenna is a religious fanatic, a marriage fanatic, and […]
You took my bliss, stripped me of warmth, a bandit of sorts.You broke me, fled. I’m guessing you think you had the last word, dear, but I’ve got a few. The July sun’s rising-rising-rising, flesh stinging as I scribble-scribble, plenty, to your pregnant wife on our fancy hotel stationery. Angela Carlton’s fiction has been published […]
Each spring, without fail, a robin builds a nest above my front door. For weeks, she sits quietly. A mate arrives, worm dangling from his beak, and feeds their brood. The pair take turns. Two weeks later, flight beckons. The nest is silent and empty. Above it, only blue sky. Upon retiring as a financial […]
I met a fox on my moonlit walk. He stopped on the roadway to look at me: eyes aglow. I paused too. Did my eyes glitter like his? When I moved, he trotted forward on the other side of the pavement. Each on our own journey, we moonbathed together. Danielle Marie Cahill is a neurodivergent […]
His teaching reputation finally did him in. Facing termination, the guests at his farewell raised a vessel from the administration decorated with a Greek meander. “Half-empty or half-full?” they asked. “Can’t tell,” he replied, balancing it on his hand. “But it smells like hemlock.” And he slowly drained the cup. Joel Savishinsky is a retired […]
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