by W.A. Smith At first I figured we all arrive with our innocence enclosed, or attached like a novitiate’s insignia. Then (I guessed) we mislay it somehow or cast it off during the flight to knowledge and adulthood and all those rich discoveries life has...
by Ryan Sparks I woke up to news reports but somehow didn’t understand them until I’d come back from the shower. The force of the fuselage of a giant airplane knocking out major support beams and the ensuing explosion had caused a building to fall. Odd....
by Gabriella Herkert’At least tell me why. I deserve that much.’ ‘Over is over, Ron.’ Liza folded her favorite red silk blouse and put it into the suitcase. The bedroom closet was still full of crisp white blouses and tailored slacks. She...
by Bobby Goldsmith For Ray Younessi, life had all but lost its sense of wonder. Only the occasional inconsistency of time still held the power to make him marvel at life’s possibilities. Even if, for him, those possibilities lay buried in bygone years, only to...
by Susan Jane Caris, you idiot. How many times did I tell you that it would kill you? You thought you weren’t pretty when I told you that you were. You thought you weren’t skinny, when I told you that you were. And now I am standing here with your bloody...
James G. Wetheart levitated once. Just the once, briefly, he was that much closer to heaven. No one witnessed his ascension, so he carefully transcribed the experience in an onionskin journal with a calligraphy pen. Among the details he wrote, “Who knows? But...
