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Rubber

by Maggie Mortimer In the month’s leading up to the name calling, Gladys took in clothes. Clothes too big to be worn, funeral clothes with typed name tags stitched in construction vests and flannels. Left in piles of rubbles and scraps. The smells alone, worthy of panic, took her away from the jabs and hooks […]

Moral Anticipation

by Ana Bazac Anticipation is an essential function of the mind/ the consciousness, because it precedes and prepares the reaction of the organism to the stimuli of the environment. By preceding it, anticipation is a rapid review of the possibilities and conditions and, as a result, it is the frame of the best choice/the best model […]

Gator Tales

by Douglas Young      That evening Forsythia Farmer turned into the parking lot of Gator Tales, the state’s largest strip club, to park by the private back entrance manned by a large, intimidating bouncer. Despite being one of the club’s most popular attractions, the dancer known as Domino Double-D Dean still drove a fifteen-year-old car […]

Gregory

by Zygmunt Nowak Solinski Greg, a little boy, is intrigued by the vacuum cleaner, which Mrs Williamson, the cleaning lady, says is so powerful it picks up all the dust. It must be magic, he thinks. One afternoon during their holidays on the coast, Dad is sleeping off lunch, Mum has gone to see some […]

It’s warmer that way

by Mariia Shmeleva It’s a strange and beautiful thing, to have friends. To stay over, read, be silent together. Sometimes, you have sex. Sometimes, you just fall asleep, holding each other, because it’s warmer that way.

Chasing UFOs

by Douglas Young                               “The UFOs are back!” Hampton exclaimed as soon as Helayna answered his call. “WDUN’s reporting a whole heap of ’em were just seen flying over the north end of Sam Benton County around Pitts Peak. We’re hearing […]

Guess Who’s Looking for You?

by Douglas Young      Keaton’s excitement grew the closer he got to his friend Zita’s place. She and her roommates were throwing a house-warming party that Friday night, and Keaton hoped to see many buddies from high school and college, including several not seen in years. Lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood, the twenty-six-year-old tried an […]

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