“So… How’re you holding up, Charlie?”
He just looked at me for a minute. And then he shrugged. It was shady on the porch but he was squinting a little. He’d taken off his sunglasses. I knew he felt like …
Five Twenty
Marco turned the key in the ignition. “Click.” Just a “click.” The car didn’t start. He checked the transmission in “park,” the brake pedal depressed, and turned the key again. Again nothing. A dead battery. Marco pounded the …
Daydreaming of golf at work, she remembers she’s never golfed.
Jason Love lives in New Jersey.
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‘I am going to kiss you so hard you’ll never forget it,’ Rod announces as I leave his yard to go home for dinner. I smile uncertainly because I want to be polite and because Melanie and a few other …
When I think about my death, which happens more frequently than it used to, I consider my quirky, beautiful objects. I love my things, not as a consumer and not exactly as a collector; everything in my home I either …
They met through a mutual acquaintance, a photographer who had a knack for bringing people together. “You’ve got a lot in common; I think the two of you would hit it off.” Though she’d heard that line before, she was …
I never thanked my stepdad for nudging me off course when I already had one foot on the fast track to ruining my life. I didn’t even know what he was up to before it was too late to undo …
Torch under my duvet, I enter a forbidden world: Imagination.
Hannah Retallick is a twenty-six-year-old from Anglesey, North Wales. She was home educated and then studied with the Open University, graduating with a First-class honours degree, BA in Humanities with …
It was a Friday night and I just came from work, the door to the sitting room was closed and from outside the house I saw that the light was on but I just assumed that County Boy was having …
Cassandra’s Unisex Hair Salon and Psychic Palm Advisory occupied 700 primo square feet in a renovated strip mall fronting Columbia Pike just minutes from the Pentagon and a nine iron shot across the Potomac River to the District of Columbia. …