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by Jonathan Ferrini Victor grew up inside a trailer park with dilapidated trailers packed together like tuna in a rusty old can. His grandmother’s trailer smelled of cleaning supplies; the scent she brought home from cleaning offices overnight. She raised Victor alone after his mother abandoned him for a life as a hippie drifting from […]
by Douglas Young Moxley Sorrel’s office door was the open one. As intimidated as he had been in college approaching a professor, Dr. Sorrel did all he could to make students feel comfortable getting help with a course, continuing a compelling class discussion, asking for advice on a major or what courses to take, […]
by Douglas Young You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. [William Faulkner] It is breathtaking how much phenomenal music Jimi Hendrix squeezed into a recording career of not even four years. In addition to four authorized original albums released during his lifetime, many more would be […]
by Dana Manoli November, 1355 The horses’ hooves pound near my carriage like stones against my flesh. “Princess Ana.” The commander’s voice cuts through the padded walls, making me frown. “It’s the Red Tower. We’re close.” Our seven-day journey through a plague-stricken land is nearly over.
by Douglas Young “Wisteria Falls Hideaway Inn – let’s make your vacation a big win.” Marigold McTaft answered the phone behind the front desk moving from side to side in her swivel high chair grinning at Furman Chase, a long-time friend. It was a Friday night in June at the ten-room motel nestled in […]
by Kevin Johnson Murillo Chance. By chance. What? A muttering. A muttering, sputtering fool standing by the sidewalk. Change in its pocket? No, no change, just drool drip dripping from its chin incessantly. Passersby do their best to ignore this mongrel human, which isn’t too difficult for most, seeing as it’s immobile. It might be […]
by Ignatius Fernandez “What we are communicates more eloquently than anything we say or do.” [Stephen R Covey] A job applicant was told to complete a form. One question in it read: ‘Length at residence?’ He wrote: ‘About 30 feet’. He figured that the question was on dimensions, because meanings are found less in words; […]
by A.R. Ispas Fire is a living organism Blood melted the snow in tones of crimson. Hector grunted as he pulled the knife out. Boiling sinew followed the blade on its way out. The Forest witnessed the act in silence, waiting for the fire to fade.
[fragment de roman] de Ancuța Manea -1- S-a întors, cumva împotriva voinței ei, pentru a privi încă o dată. Nu știa să își explice motivul. Curiozitate? O dorință uitată? Sau pur și simplu voia să își dea seama dacă, în acele câteva momente, a identificat bine silueta îndepărtată.
by Steven W. Burgess With the following scrap scribbled in pencil I am off to say something too brief about the concerns of my late dearest friend and associate, Gordon Keller: Notes Respecting a Natural Order of Archeo-Pithanological Analysis. A definition, and the brief MS, folded or stuffed as in hiding between […]