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Tag Archives: Fiction
Waiting for the Man, fiction by Don Jennings
He didn't flinch when the metal roof popped on the far side of the trailer. Just kept looking outside, eyes level, gaze steady. Fingertips resting lightly on the windowsill. Cops has been watching Lester from the pine forest out back … Continue reading
First Water, fiction by Court Merrigan
The sandcherries and chokecherries are in full blossom in their ordered rows along the boundaries of the set-aside and in irregular swathes branching into the grass, erect blossoms at full attention to the sun and the bees at them … Continue reading
Wounded Knee, fiction by Jason Stuart
"They picked me up in their spaceship about noon," Austin Grantham says to me while pulling up an apple crate to use as a stool. I’m sitting outside the Smith’s Farm Supply and General Store shelling peas because my dad … Continue reading
Education Pays, fiction by Deana Nantz
Everything was moving at a normal pace until he showed up. Eleventh graders listened to their teacher’s unremitting spiel on a work of literature. Miss Sheila Singleton, a first year English teacher, reeked of green skill and floral perfume, and … Continue reading
Cooks, fiction by Ben Werner
After work, Clint and Danny rolled through the orange streetlights on Main Street and into the darkness on the far side of town. Danny thought about telling Clint to turn around and take him home, where his father would be … Continue reading
Goodman at an Outhouse, fiction by Brian Tucker
Outside a dilapidated outhouse a man by the name of Goodman waited impatiently for his turn. He stood on his right toe with his left boot heel, trying to not think about the deep burn that was welling up from … Continue reading
New Fiction from Nathan Graziano
Not for Vegetarians I. I had never killed anything other than bugs, and I told Jay, who laughed and put me in a headlock. “You need to go duck hunting with me tomorrow afternoon,” he said, and it wasn’t a … Continue reading
The Crystal Ball, fiction by A.M. Amodeo
Joe and Pearl sat on either side of the kitchen table, a crystal ball between them. “Can you get that thing to work?” Joe said, pointing his chin at the crystal, which rested on a small pile of black velvet … Continue reading
Fleshy Things, fiction by Stefanie Freele
In his hand, the Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake. Around his neck, green stripes of the Rosy Boa. “You want to touch him don’t you?” “Never have.” She says, abruptly realizing how inexperienced this sounds. “Cold-blooded.” Taking her hand, he holds her palm … Continue reading
Della, fiction by Jarrid Deaton
Dan says he’s getting tired of me talking in my sleep. Says I mumble like a child and toss and turn, flail my arms. What I see is the inside of the school bus. I see forty kids laughing. Then … Continue reading
