A Scream Inside
by Kiana McCrackin
Issue No. 283 ~ December, 2020
I always want to begin again. Again, begin.
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Issue No. 283 ~ December, 2020
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Issue No. 283 ~ December, 2020
Getting the Last Word
by Jim Ross
Issue No. 207 ~ August, 2014
The day before Valentine’s Day, Dad called and told me he planned to take Mom to a psychiatrist to get her drugs strong enough to “drive the devil out.”
Mother AKA One of a Couple 5’2′ Female Corporate CEOs that Ever Existed
by Darrah Scheimann
Issue No. 200 ~ January, 2014
My mother’s hair blooms into jasmine. It’s that scent. You stop your mid-afternoon sojourning to better appreciate that scent, that scent wanders over to your nose, amok, stray of some lady’s garden, sending sweet jasmine signals through axons in your brain.
Christmas – Our Style
by Helmut Egesa Wagabi
Issue No. 199 ~ December, 2013
Christmas is a great time for carousing. Men drink homemade brews that are concoctions of sorghum and millet solution, honey and yeast.
Hanoi
by Michael Barrett
Issue No. 198 ~ November, 2013
She stopped before me. A flame-tipped roll-up hung from her mouth. She seemed ancient. This could be a hundred years ago, I thought.
My Father Stood Loading His Gun
by Lucas Dean Fiser
Issue No. 176 ~ January, 2012
My father stood in the middle of the yard in front of me crushing the remainder of his cigarette into the snow. He reached for the red handkerchief in his back pocket and blew his nose. Birds still chirping, snow still falling. The pistol gleamed from his pants.
Home
by Owen Tucker
Issue No. 172 ~ September, 2011
When the earthquake struck nearby Sichuan province that May, we did everything wrong; we did not leap from the one free window. We remained calm, sought out doorways and braced ourselves, hearing the windows rattle in their loose frames and the doors above slamming as the upstairs residents fled the building in fright.
The Overweight Anorexic
by Joey Nicoletti
Issue No. 166 ~ March, 2011
The face of Jesus seemed to glare 14 karat-gold disapproval from the charm glued to the middle of the steering wheel of Fleming’s nickel-gray Buick Skylark, sticky with brown drops of Kettle One Skyy Coke.