The ghost of the Martian pirate boasted incessantly. In French.
John Adams is a writer, improviser, producer, and communications professional from the Kansas City area. His plays have been selected for the 6×10 Play Festival (2016 – Mission, Kansas), …
When Mahmud and Sam arrive at Aaron’s hospital room, the door is closed.
“I texted him this morning. He said he’d be awake when we got here,” Sam turns to Mahmud.
“Let’s check with the floor nurse,” Mahmud is already …
Door open, driver missing, airbags smoking, Serius playing their song.
Susan Sarver is a writer and painter based in Chicago. She completed an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University-Cascades and subsequently wrote a book, Returning to College, Continuing …
1939 Berlin
Sharon and her daughter, Monika, stood self-consciously in a cluster of commuters in the early morning’s dark. The Reich had ordered Jews to wear the Star of David sewn conspicuously over the left breast. This was the first day to …
One thing Eleanor had learned recently was that a 13-year-old boy coming down the stairs sounded exactly like a catastrophic accident. If the roof of her house had collapsed and beams and shingles begun to pour down, she would not …
Uncle Bill was among the men huddled in the garage, clustered in the corner behind the jig saw and planer table. I stared at them through the kitchen’s rusty screen door but all I could see were the ember tips of …
I see a man dying in the window. Oops. Mirror.
Based in the UK, Denise Chick writes for enjoyment. She writes on a variety of themes but most recently has been writing more poetry with the occasional flash fiction murder …
Amelia Watson, my new patient, is due at one o’clock She shows up at one ten. Her completed patient information shows she’s twenty-four and unmarried. She writes “Trust Fund” in the space for occupation.
Amelia’s a toned, amber blonde with …
Grandpa died. Josh stole leftover Oxycodone. Got caught. Hello rehab.
Kim Steinberg has lived in Boise, Idaho since 1981. Recently, her work has been published in Idaho Magazine; Writers in the Attic, The Cabin Anthology; Bewildering Stories; Shut Up and …
We got to Ipswich by market day somehow, a small miracle given the state of our cart, which was always just a crooked cobblestone from ruin. There had been no robbers on the road down either, luck be praised. Though, …