Sunday, October 25, 2026
A plaque beside the path we’d strayed from memorialized the meadow as a Civil War battlefield. A spring storm blew through the wildflowers like a ghostly vendetta.“There’s no meaning but what you make it,” she said…
Giulia placed the rose between the sleeping couple, the poison shimmering green in the dark.She cursed, fingertip stinging from the hole hidden in her glove.With each breath, the thieves drew closer to death.As now did…
You call me by a stranger’s name.What happened to his spots? You.Got 'em lasered off. Your father.A photograph of you and me together. Your gap-toothed grin like sloughed scales. My face, a stranger set in familiar…
I knew it was over the moment he jumped down into the dirt with nothing but boots on. The way he dashed up the ramp with ease, his manhood flopping all around, and raised his arms in victory as the monster truck hit the…
Thick, furry neck and gravel voice. Half bear, half ape. Riz. What kind of name’s that?After he caught you gawking you scared yourself out of sleep every night. Told yourself never! Not if you were down to your last…
I went to the bar alone. I wasn’t planning on socializing, but I saw a friend.“How’s it going?” he asked.“Good.” I laughed: “What was with the armful of shooters at the store last night?”“Oh, helps me stay good,” he…
Goosebumps shiver me as my niece recounts her family’s first night in their new home. They’d been sitting in their family room while, outside, rain and dark descended. Her daughter, five-year-old Elyse, ran shrieking…
Sitting in my car, which is nearly paid off, in the parking lot of the Rite Aid on Christmas Night, around 11 PM. The lot is empty except for me and one other vehicle, reindeer antlers on its hood, probably belonging to…
The path is difficult—fraught with slippery spots and broken boards. It was not always this way. Still, the journey is worth the effort. We exchange news, goods, gifts, and help in times of trouble. But years of passage…
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