Archive for July, 2010:
After Dinner
The intention had been for a celebratory evening. But in the taxi, on the ride home at the close of the night, silence prevailed and neither Eric nor Nedra felt [...]
The Cat and the Gun
My flatmate Chris was being bothered by a cat.
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TLC: Tender Loving Care
‘So how’s Gilda doing today, Grace?’ Mrs Cooper asked.
‘Last night we thought she was a goner,’ said nurse Grace, as blunt as ever, ‘but she’s hanging on. She’s a fighter.’
‘She [...]
Leonard’s Spaceship
A poem by Rebecca Box.
Fennizwig Lilly (part 2)
The city of Rosedale Palm was the kind of place not even a cockroach would go to die. The cloud of pollution that engulfed its streets blotted out the sky [...]
Into the Night
Kyle had always been a levelheaded type of person. The difference between dreams and reality was never blurred for him; it was a crystal clear barrier distinctly separating two states [...]
The Hunter
The Hunter crouched in the soft brisk snow. The light from the fading sun, already a gentile purple, brushed the tops of the unclothed trees, their leaves had [...]
Lisa
A poem by Jean-Michel Brawand.
Seventeen
An alarm sounds in the distance. Buzzing, barking, mauling the intricate silence of my slumber. My eyes wretch open much like a bird’s long retired wings — slowly and [...]
Martha
In short, Martha is a librarian. Her life is lived according to achievable goals, won through repetition and ritual that give order and meaning to her tidy existence.
At 5 [...]
Linen (part 1)
May 24, 1986 – A woman and an infant were found stabbed to death in their California home on Friday. The two were found wrapped tightly in bedsheets in the [...]
I Have Not Showered for Days
A poem by Lucas Cellar.
The Time Traveler’s Ex-Wife
He materialized naked and shivering like he always did, his head swimming with the dizziness and disorientation that was common with the time shift. As it passed he felt a [...]