Pensive pondering about childhood past
by Derek Alger
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
The woman gazed across the table at a young man and uttered a phrase I will never forget. "Chad, you look pensive," she said.
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portrait One on One
Lou Rowan
interviewed by Derek Alger
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
Lou Rowan is the author of the novel, My Last Days (Chiasmus Press, 2007), and the short story collection, Sweet Potatoes (Small Press Distribution, 2008). He's currently finishing another novel, in the mystery form.
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Sundays
by Subhadra Eberly
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
I never run on release; I duck and cover. This is how I was taught to handle emergency situations like earthquakes and nuclear attacks in elementary school.
Tadpole
by Jennifer Blood
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
It wasn’t ‘til late that night after he got hit that I decided on bringing Sidney back to life. I’d been playing around with the idea my whole life – cutting worms into two pieces and watching them wriggle on both ends like a magic trick God come up with just for me.
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Visiting Hours at McLean Psychiatric Hospital – Waltham, MA
by Victoria Thompson
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
Strawberry
by Kathleen Radigan
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
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Discards
by Sharon Erby
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
Then she dreamed she was in the yard again, and the wind swept across it and blew down a rain that grew the grass as quick and high as buckwheat, and bowed it low.
The Death of Caesar
by M.E. McMullen
Issue No. 171 ~ August, 2011
RC kicked back with an Iron City Beer, listened to all this hog talk from beneath his mop of ratty hair. His eyes never settled and were always peering in from just outside the local time.