Dance with Me! The Dixieland set ended with a thumping drumbeat, and the cornet player took the bar stool next to Hall even though…
MRS. QUIMBY’S ROCKETING DAY (for Zachary, Grayson, Allen Kyle and Mrs. Quimby) You see, Mrs. Quimby never thought she’d go up in…
The Republic of Love (excerpt) (…) Many years later. My soul is trapped in an ice cube. The dream is so cold I wake up…
2:55 Sojourn to Sanjaiya ( Sir Gregory 07/05/12 © ) Asleep on the train to Nepal…Heard the yelping of the mountain denizens..Cries of pain or…
IF I WERE MAGGIE If I were Maggie I’d ride around in a battered old Model T with Mr. Baxter who delivered fresh eggs twice…
I took the safety off of my Glock, then I closed the door to my safe room. Sherry as usual, was brushing her hair…
The spring after her older daughter died, Jane Musick took her younger daughter, Sadie, up to Wilderness Road and told her it was time…
Subtropical-Mediterranean climate blessed the university-owned apartments, and, from Mary Liu’s studio window, magnolia branches, swinging with the summer breeze, partially veiled the view. She breathed…
Our spirit is inside the baseball rising into the light. —Robert Bly In the summer of his forty-fifth year, a time when…
Red had wasted himself on the pipe all night and was rummaging the fibers of the carpet for little imagined chunks of crack, his…
Moss first saw the little woman at the village’s waterfall where children swung on a knotted rope lashed to a tree branch. A tiny…
They lived in the woods for months at a time – no cell phones, no Internet access, and the closest general delivery was twenty-five…
The most ridiculous thing happened to me at the coffee shop yesterday. I only went there to get some work done, because it’s virtually…
Yellowman, our leader, and the rest of my mates, are gone, and I am alone – a rat at the mercy of the hawks in Benin City….
Thomas Fleming The year was 1951 and war was rumbling up and down the peninsula of Korea. Desperate for cannon fodder, the…
Walter Cummins Deep into an endless mountain tunnel, the rail carriage lights flickered and died into total darkness. Marina could feel Ellis’s fingers…
Leslie What The terriers were a barking alarm clock that wouldn’t shut off. Another Saturday ruined. “Sorry,” Letty said….
An Excerpt from the Novel George Bush Buys Coke in Mid-Eternity by Liam MacSheoinin The advert read a 1976 vair colored BMW in…
In the maze of underground corridors, nothing was denied him. Doors and gates opened with the wave of his hand. Cameras recorded his passing, never…
Line-Maria Lång Translated from Danish by Thomas E. Kennedy There is a sea by a river where only female plants grow. The girl…
Philip Henderson When I returned to my dorm that night, I discovered that I’d locked myself out; my keys were still inside my dorm….
Ishmael Reed from Chapter 52 Get this, their escort called and said that they were ready to depart for the ceremonies. Esther was…
Rita Hypnarowski It flashed on the screen over my workstation; I could barely hear it, wailing from the stoop outside the nurse’s break room,…
Jon Wesick Cliff Nardo followed the Asian woman into the limousine. The subtle perfume she’d applied to her cleavage seemed to evaporate from her…
Peter Lingard My name is Pieter van Eyken and I put pen to paper to let you know of the great injustice done…
Four independent novels about the souls and seasons, the light and jazz and serving houses of the Danish capital. Each volume can be read independently…
Thomas E. Kennedy An excerpt from In the Company of Angels (Bloomsbury, 2010) by Thomas E. Kennedy. Reprinted with permission of Bloomsbury Publishers and Thomas…
Christopher Woods He arrives in the dream already begun. Before, many times. He takes his place. On a beach, in Italy or Spain….
Tom Sheehan Hardly with a hop, skimp and a jump did Frank Parkinson come home from Tobruk, Egypt, North Africa, madness, World War II…
David Bruckshaw Campbell Everything went black. Sean clutched the steering wheel and almost jammed the brake pedal through the rusted floorboard of his aging…
D.H.R. Fishman Poor Uncle Moon had to sneak the plastic champagne glass and its illicit contents – not Dom Perignon, but drinkable – into…
Duff Brenna They go to the drive-through at Jack In The Box, order burgers and Cokes. While the two of them are sitting…
Jon Wesick Life was good. Dick Trout had a well-paying job, wife, and a sturdy car. Arriving thirty minutes before most other employees…
Sam Hamod Once upon a time, it seems, during the reign of the first strong president of Pakistan, Ayub Khan– President Khan decided he…
Jorge Luis Borges No one saw him disembark in the unanimous night, no one saw the bamboo canoe sink into the sacred mud, but…