by Charlotte Gullick SFWP’s 2001 Awards Program grand prize winner, Charlotte Gullick, was published by Penguin in August of 2002. The following is an excerpt from By Way of Water Read more about Charlotte. * * * Justy stood at the window, thinking about the...
by Tom Waltz At 8:43 p.m., on December 31st, 1999, Candice “Candy” Martin started drinking. She uncorked one of the two bottles of her favorite White Zinfandel’which she’d lined up on the kitchen table’and topped off the first...
by Adam Browne Mr Vale was allergic to advertising. Even the mildest of ads caused him severe discomfort, afflicting his skin with sharply demarcated roseate areas like some unknown species of sunburn, as though he’d been sunbathing in the curdled glimmer of a...
By Laura C. Alonso Laura is a returning writer to sfwp.org. You can check out her previous work, Honey, in our 2001 Finalists column. Laura’s bio is available in our Authors section. * * * We see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw...
by Gabriella Herkert Marty wore whorehouse red to the funeral. The cold December wind sliced at her but she refused to take refuge behind crossed arms or slumped shoulders. The muddy ground sucked voraciously at her three-inch high heels but she walked erect, striding...
by Tom Hofmann About six years had passed before I began to write about electroconvulsive therapy. I had thought about the procedure in the intervening years, but I hadn’t pulled the parts together. To do so would require acknowledging that it had occurred. It...
