The Rocket
Short Story The morning had a crisp chill to it that had only just started to give way to the sun that creeped lazily over scattered clouds. Between rolling clover-covered hills a red barn...
LEGENDS
50 Stitches of Cloth
Short Story Rachel looked at her class calendar in disgust. She thought for sure it was next week; now she has to cancel her burrito plans just to visit a mill in order...
Individual Of Concern
Science Fiction The tiny padded cell was devoid of any furniture except an elongated mirror that consumed one of the walls and a bright lime green button beside the door. In the centre...
Behind Eyelids – Part One
Short Story The shock traveled up his arm and twinged into his neck muscles. Rippling like a predator cat, he slowly hefted the iron bar from the sticky mess between his feet. Flakes...
How It Feels to Be Fired
Alternative Fiction Every night, as I lay silently with my siblings, I could hear her screams. Although I desperately wanted to do something, I just stayed where I was, totally impotent. From my...
Saturday Afternoon
Short Fiction The woman came by each Saturday afternoon with a record player and a considerable stack of records. The hands that dropped them into place were heavily veined and thick with age,...
A Letter to Javier Marias
Fiction Letters Dear Your Royal Highness, The Esteemed Javier Marías, I am writing to submit to you my candidacy for Duke of Redonda. In doing so, I shall list the qualities that here...
My Vagabond Shoes
Short Story He was staring at my vagabond Fred Perry’s. They make a subtle suggestion, I said, that I am a bad-ass motherfucker. He grinned condescendingly. My dark grey jeans complimenting that notion as...
