228
May, 2016
local_library Poetry
In the Butterfly Tent
by Julie Cox
Issue No. 228 ~ May, 2016
pages Micro-Fiction
Bring Me the Moon
by Katie Sisneros
Issue No. 228 ~ May, 2016
The first time you brought me the moon, I demanded you put it right back where you got it. “People need that, you know!” I said, scooting you out the door while you cradled the moon gingerly in your arms. I pointed up at the …
No Time Hath She
by Mark Crimmins
Issue No. 228 ~ May, 2016
Jim Walsh says he has all this stuff to do in town and do I want to go with him, so I tag along. We go to the bank. The post office. Taco Time. After we’ve eaten our burritos he says he needs to stop …
map Macro-Fiction
The Actors
by Audrey North
Issue No. 228 ~ May, 2016
October. The slap of the blue sky overhead. Orange leaves ran along the pavement, chased by red. They crunched under the beefy soles of my school shoes; they scudded across the black leather, itching to scratch the cracked black plastic. Yet never getting there, nature …
Strange Medicine
by Sarah Schuetze
Issue No. 228 ~ May, 2016
“We often put the old ways to work for cases like this, especially when we don’t get the results we want from other strategies.” He means when what they thought would work doesn’t. He put took his hands from the pockets of his white coat …
Mr. and Mrs. Schlossman’s Piece of Fish
by Andy Millman
Issue No. 228 ~ May, 2016
After Mendel Schlossman returned from the hospital, where he’d been treated for the food poisoning he contracted at his retirement party, he and his wife invited me over for dinner. This was a very nice gesture, especially considering I’d been in charge of the party. …