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Tag Archives: Fiction
Our Lady of the Rockies, fiction by Eric Bosse
I meet a girl and her father on the crest of a hill. She waves as the dog and I climb, and the dog bolts so fast I think he might hit the hilltop and keep running into the clouds … Continue reading
The Smoking Ban, fiction by Caroline Kepnes
Hannah missed the way things used to be. Now, if you wanted to have a cigarette at The Tavern, you had to walk out onto the deck. But it didn’t used to be that way. It used to be that … Continue reading
Spite and Malice, fiction by CL Bledsoe
After Tommy took the PCP, KT told him to calm down three times; each time, she made a point of standing closer and closer to the shotgun, the first, moving across the room near it, the second, with her hand … Continue reading
The Troubles, fiction by Sheldon Compton
“Raise your shirt, Mr. Mullins.” “How about I just take it off?” “That’ll be fine.” She asked him to breathe heavily three or four times, moving a stethoscope from his chest to his back and then to his chest again. The assistant was … Continue reading
Running Mule Hollow, fiction by Murray Dunlap
The roads in Mule Hollow are long and wide, unfrequented by cars, and in summer months, make for the perfect place to run. The sides of the road are flat, and a beaten path threading through wild flowers give safe … Continue reading
Pyote, fiction by Shannon Hardwick
Imagine I am a body on the side of the road, maybe a girl in a skirt and a shirt that’s torn, or a boy with a briefcase and muddy boots. Imagine I am you. You’ve taken too long to … Continue reading
Loveville, fiction by Timothy Gager
Loveville is a free-wheeling town you enter without a seatbelt at 100 miles per hour down the Main Street; going so fast, a clock can’t tick. When you spin off the road you are thrown onto the grass near a … Continue reading
Benediction, novel excerpt from Charles Dodd White
Chapter 1 Lavada rose to the iron dark and stepped barefoot across the cabin floor, pausing and placing her hand to the door to test the wind's new ache. To know it as her own. Touch told her she would need … Continue reading
Opening Day, fiction by Nathan Graziano
The forecast is calling for rain on Opening Day—not showers, but a holy-shit-the-sky-is-pissing April downpour. He packs his books into the boxes he picked up at the liquor store while his wife stands in the doorway to their bedroom, her … Continue reading
Puercos Gordos, fiction by Michael Gills
She was a year younger than me and semifamous. I’d seen her all through high school, and then on the hood of a white Corvette as Miss Lonoke in the Soy Parade, a distinction that sent her to the Miss … Continue reading
