Morning light edging in, New York City streets shine wet while Allison and Amy dance, sing and laugh through them. Honey sweet and seventeen, blissfully exhausted, folded umbrellas, top hats and tails, safe in their neighborhood.
Jasper now liberated from …
Madness runs as deep as the marrow in the Tate family. I just didn’t realize how far until recently.
It’s not that we’re criminally insane. That’s a bit nutty, thank you very much. We are simply eccentrics. No murderers, no …
One hanging judge; one hung jury: thirteen new strangler victims!
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…
The train pulled in, last stop on the Slovak border. I leant out, the snow was pelting down but the platform was crowded with heavily wrapped up folk. A young woman in grey pressed a wrapped package into my hand …
It’s funny how one thing leads to another. I was cruising along, enjoying the open road, the Harley was purring and the fresh air on my face reminded me of how much I like the outdoors. Connecting with nature is …
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 …