Sally Knaak, (the “k” is silent, why?) had so many questions about life, about boys, about adults, about sex, about the life cycle of a cicada. No one seemed to have solid answers to questions, especially the one she asked …
Sally stared at the divorce certificate. She exhaled. Finally free.
Angelika Delf loves to laugh, to observe and to communicate with everyone and everything. In her stories and poems she keeps taunting negative ideas, stubborn phantoms or bad-smelling monsters. You …
This is how it will happen. Wearing black, I will slip on gloves of the softest, supplest leather, then I’ll soundlessly turn my key in the lock. He never bothers to slip the bolts. The lock will be silent because …
I once cheated a blind woman out of $125. She was a law student then, and I, an English MA.
My teaching assistant stipend amounted to $484 a month. My monthly rent totaled $125 including steam heat and water. Electricity …
The office had almost completely left my mind, replaced with memories of sightseeing and relaxing on the beach. My kids and I got to see the Blue Jays beat the Yankees while my wife, who didn’t care about baseball, spent some …
Me, myself and I had a clash. Irreversible brain damage.
Angelika Delf loves to laugh, to observe and to communicate with everyone and everything. In her stories and poems she keeps taunting negative ideas, stubborn phantoms or bad-smelling monsters. You …
We didn’t want to take turns, for once. They couldn’t stand the both of us looking at them, touching them the way each of us wanted to touch them, instead of pretending one of us had control of both hands. …
Hours have passed – seems like forever. We were due back in Tech right after lunch – it’s now two o’clock. “Hey, you dicks, let me out of here.” Me spending Thursday afternoon smoking weed with a bunch of lunatics …
Brain-hungry zombies raiding the House of Representatives starved to death.
Shawn M. Klimek’s stories and poems appear in numerous anthologies available at http://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/anthologies or www.amazon.com/author/shawnmklimekauthor. A comprehensive index of published works can be found at https://jotinthedark.blogspot.com…
“He looks like you,” Mavis had said of the garden gnome she’d presented to him for his birthday, which Arthur hadn’t found amusing because it was true. They had the same wispy beard and ruddy cheeks. There was, of course, …