by Jim Ruland For the sex-starved sailors of the seventh fleet all roads lead to Tijuana, and no one loved TJ more than Carter. Everybody knew he had a thing for Mexican whores, and whenever someone accompanied Carter to TJ, they always came back with sordid stories...
by K.L. Nappier PROLOGUE Yah-weh. What happened to Your promise? When I was young, when I was still called Sarai, I took my husband into me on our wedding night, sure of children to come. Abram, so young himself, though ten years my senior; strong and atop me and...
by Gabriella Herkert ‘We’re gonna take the car to the store.’ Allie’s not askin’. She never asks. She just tells. It’s okay ‘cuz she has good ideas, but then we get in trouble. I don’t like being in trouble. She says...
Ed Peaco One summer night in the not-too-distant but long-forgotten past, when Max Headroom was a cult hit on television and the home-improvement boom was in its infancy, a dense whine haunted Duane Dyer’s dreams. As his sleep receded, the noise grew louder, and...
By Laura C. Alonso Tomorrow, they’d bury their daughter . . . and still, so many questions. Why would a beautiful fourteen-year-old choose for herself such a horrible, painful death? In life, she appeared the antithesis of suicidal ideation: excellent grades,...
