Fiction

Order and Reflex in North Jersey

This was back during a period of my life when I thought of myself as having things. What did I…

7 years ago

Feast

Om grew up in Loka village, beside mountains, wheat fields and orchards. Sometimes a late spring frost stunned the apple…

7 years ago

The Lady of Dien Bien Phu and the Senegalese Giant

     She sat by the window of her hillside stilt house with a puddle of afternoon sunlight in her…

7 years ago

Bad Bets

Jay counts out her regrets in the grooves of one-dollar casino chips, spends half of them at the blackjack table…

7 years ago

You Might Forget the Sky Was Ever Blue

The gymnasium sweats. It’s autumn by the calendar, by the start of the new school year, by the way the…

7 years ago

Orlando

1. Clover mites march out of the library’s foundation, and Alex crushes them with his thumb. They mark him like…

7 years ago

Colony Collapse

It’s ridiculous. Alice rummages in her bag and extracts a Marlboro while she steers with one hand. Well, that’s one…

7 years ago

The Eye at Night

By the time she finally made it to The Lazy Eye there were a good half-dozen cars in the parking…

7 years ago

Magic

Night Train ignored the squeeze of his wrestling mask by thinking of how badly he wanted to beat up Magic.…

7 years ago

Alleviation

Everyone wants relief. Forest Grove Psychiatric Hospital has a suicide prevention call center where I volunteer my time to alleviate,…

8 years ago

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