The Bel Air inside the Bog
by Jonathan Ferrini For Sale 1956 Chevrolet two-door Bel Air. Light blue and white. Blue rims and whitewall tires. Like New!
poems by Ted Reilly
In Rapallo Old Homer sleeps safe in the Protestant cemetery, the son long gone to his private Ithaka, having sung at length of ΟΥ ΤΙΣ and Jederman: a half hour spent wandering by the shore, coffee and a cold bun. The Madonna has been restored joyfully, her surcoat as blue as the summer […]
Hamlet: Some Moral Considerations
by Ted Reilly Regarding Ghosts & Sin If the appearance of a King’s ghost is not shock enough, we are reminded that it is that time of year in which ghosts do walk the wintry world, for the play is set in the period leading up to the Holy Season, from Halloween to St. Valentine’s […]
Somebody’s Going to Get Hurt
by Masimba Musodza We watched Jeremy fall in love with The New Girl. At first, there was not much to see. We were at our usual table in the warehouse canteen, sometime after 2 a.m. Davinder, Pavel and myself (Gavin), the Three ‘Avs, as the Kids liked to call us. The Kids were Jeremy, […]
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 […]
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.
Mind Shaft
by Jonathan Ferrini “Momma, please wake up.” “Let me sleep, girl!” “You’ve been sleeping for five days. “I need to drive you to the urgent care.
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 […]