What am I supposed to do with your toothbrush now?
Alex Moersen is the former Managing Editor of Innovation & Tech Today and is a current MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans.…
I was asleep when the phone rang. I looked in the lounge, the kitchen and Gloria’s bedroom. I found the phone in the hallway, where it had always been, I suppose. That’s what she always tells me when I can’t find things, it was always there. But if …
The articles Olivia had read said, within three days of arriving at the Garden Grove Sanctuary, Iyla had rooted to the ground. Within ten days she didn’t need food anymore, just the occasional watering.
It had taken Olivia an hour …
He lost his family but gained a book. Publication awaits.
Taylor Dibbert is a writer based in Washington, DC.…
Grandma Ruth lived for canning – almost anything that grew on trees or in the ground. Summer and Fall, sealed bottles of preserved this and that began to line up, three and four deep, on the rough board shelving she …
“You have a bed you know” said Dad
“I sleep better on the floor” I tell him even though I know that is not true. In reality my back hurts, my ribs hurt, I’ve slept maybe four hours a night …
Her trusted lover lied to her. He now lies underground.
Lisa Molina is a writer and educator in Austin, Texas. She has taught high school English and theatre, served as Associate Publisher of Austin Family Magazine, and now works with …
The sun hasn’t risen yet as I hunt for breakfast, sleep elusive and sorely missed. Following close behind me is my faithful Australian shepherd, Ace, somewhere between herding me and hunting for whatever scraps I drop, knowing I won’t let …
Donner’s Pass:
sweet, starved lass,
colder,
bolder—
bit my ass!
Ken Gosse prefers writing light verse with meter and rhyme. First published in FLR–East in 2016 and since then by Pure Slush, Spillwords, The Ekphrastic Review, and others. …
The United States deployed the first American combat troops to Vietnam in March of 1965.
Dad enlisted in the Marines in the summer of 1966, one semester shy of his college graduation from the University of Kansas. He was 22. …