Memoir Excerpt: The White Deer
by Paul LisickyI can't exactly say why I went to church on Saturday for the five o'clock mass, but that's just what I did.
The Sea Crest
by Jeff W. BensI didn’t have anywhere else to go. Jillian had left me. I was living in a basement apartment in Bensonhurst whose only window looked out to a dry cleaner's vent.
Novel Excerpt: Keep No Secrets
by Julie ComptonYou smell the scent.
It’s happened before. The first time, when you and your wife Claire cut through the cosmetics department at the mall, your heartbeat soared with such trepidation that you clutched at your chest, startling her
Navigations in the Gene Pool
by Juditha DowdNature trumps nurture. Ellen believed it even before science arrived at the same conclusion, believed it even after science changed its mind again. Believes it now.
One Potato, Two Potato (Web exclusive)
by Mark WolvertonAckerman traced the fiber optic cable leading from the control unit under the customized sofa-lounger to the I/O port in the side of Mrs. Frimmel's skull.
Heritage Trails
by Liz Abrams-MorleyI was the new girl at Coltrane’s. I’d come down from Jersey for my grandfather’s stupid-ass wedding and couldn’t figure a reason to go back—Mom gone, my brothers all married and cheating, just like every guy I’d been involved with.
The Lip
by Tom LarsenFor days afterward Leo’s life was like a dream. He thought about Julie and Mario driving across the country. In his head they were always whooping it up. He wished them dead in the desert, their bodies black and bloated. The image so disturbed him he wished them back to life.






