That Paris Year by Joanna Biggar (Bethesda, Maryland : Alan Squire Publisher, 2010) is a novel that recounts the adventures of five southern California ‘Junior-Year-Abroad’ female college students (dare I say ‘co-eds’) in Paris during academic year 1962—1963 while...
The knock on his cabin door broke the mountain silence. He rose from his chair and answered. Four young women stood on the porch. “Our truck broke down,” the tallest one said. “Do you have a phone we could use?” He shook his head. “No phones up here.” “Oh.” The woman...
We’ve slowly been posting the winners and finalists from the 2010 Literary Awards Program over at the journal. SFWP is a small operation… Well, hell, it’s just me, and Ryan Sparks who volunteers his time to help me with the journal. Come the end of the Literary Awards...
Berto’s earliest memory was not of a vision but a smell. It came from under the door of the room that he was forbidden to enter. He’d been playing a game with sticks and pebbles on the floor – war, against the Austrians – while his mother simultaneously nursed the...
“That boat’s awfully far out.” We were on the beach, playing one of our games (getting your fir cones into the opposing team’s basket). One of the other boys had stopped and stretched out a scrawny arm to indicate a spot somewhere near the horizon. Shielding our eyes...
