Fiction
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Overcast, 1945
1 They had him living in a gray brick apartment building on the only intact block on Hohensteiner Str. His…
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Down The Mountain
“Sounds like you’re getting new neighbors,” Dierdre said. She and her husband owned the Sunrise, the only restaurant in Manzanita,…
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The Biggest Room in the City
She hated the Sunday dress her mother had picked out for her at the Northwood Mervyn’s, which had a thousand…
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And the cow jumped over the moon
My boss Tom Skinner was a ballbuster if there ever was one, but he’d agreed to let me leave the…
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Bandit
Alynne ate her chicken dinner sitting on a broken plastic crate outside her tent. The city had opened the sanctioned camp two weeks ago. Alynne was one of the…
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Speaking of Ice Cream
Jack Preston sat patiently at the intersection of St. John Avenue and Hardesty, behind an old Chevy pickup turning left.…
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Marty and Deborah
Marty scheduled his announcement for 10:00 AM on a Monday, and the Friday before he pinned a notice with the…
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Exclusion
Velu had seen enough Hollywood romcoms and TV sitcoms to know exactly what it meant when an attractive woman lingered…
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Kim
I remember the soft pressure of Kim’s hand on mine, how she stood so upright, her petite frame sinuously curved,…
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Brothers
I’m lagging. I’m supposed to be with a group of little kids on a walk down to the river, but…