There’s not a color the sky doesn’t turn in the fall evening, if you watch long enough. Paul […]
Category Archive: The Fiction Issue
It’s lonely behind the black velvet curtain. Tammy shifted her weight and pointed the toes of her right […]
Before Magnus learned that pain must always accompany beauty, his music was wild, random, and full of noise. […]
“I’m going to tell you the truth about girls,” said Petie McKay, one sweltering afternoon in September after […]
Before Then Now When I get really hungry—not the all-the-time uncomfortable grumbling, but that clawing, scraping emptiness that […]
“Tomorrow we should go down there,” she said. It was only two blocks from the house, and they […]
I told the policeman we hid near the basement toilet. The other Manhunt team wouldn’t find us because […]
What could be more beautiful than the shafts of light that reach into the water at certain times […]
I created him because I was bored. Back then I felt boredom was the essential catalyst for inspiration, […]
Mike visualizes his little girl being told by her mother why Dad is jobless and blacklisted, his face in the paper or on the internet under the headline “ELEM. TEACHER ENDANGERS STUDENTS, FIRED.”
