Fiction

Remembered

You don’t like writing essays. Especially not essays to present to the class. James and his friends in the back…

5 months ago

Billy

You’re walking down a canyon road at dusk with the fireflies and a boy named Billy. He says between Marlboro…

5 months ago

Bobby Goes to the Garden

The shop was small and had a sandwich-board sign outside, 'unearthly delights inside' written on it in chalk. Bobby looked…

5 months ago

The Fifth Wife

Since 9/11, my dad refused to get on a plane; so he, my sister Vanessa, and I were forced to…

1 year ago

Key Speaking Overtime from the Lock of the Body

In class, I’m afraid to put my hand up. I’m not big enough to notice, but now I sense that…

1 year ago

Rabbit Run

He wasn’t much taller than me and looked like he’d served in the Navy, crewcut and Popeye forearms. He stared…

1 year ago

No Pennies

I would have liked to drop a penny and make a wish, but they don’t have pennies here anymore. Every…

2 years ago

Driftwood

It’s just past dawn on a Tuesday morning in early spring. Dim light filters through heavy clouds above hills to…

2 years ago

Vivisection

I found the creature in the middle of my lawn on the day that Ellie came home. I had no…

3 years ago

Shepherds Take Warning

The hum of Rudy Bartles’s crop duster made us look up over the geek tent into the barren blue of…

4 years ago

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