The Sweetest Smile by Jim Dawson
The Sweetest Smile by Jim Dawson Deena’s sweet smile scared me more than her right hook. I first encountered her in a two-story suburban home we both broke into. An undersized defensive tackle whose...
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The Cashier Always Rings Twice by Jon Wesick
The Cashier Always Rings Twice by Jon Wesick I was sitting in my basement office at 4th and Drucker with nothing to keep me company but a bottle of rye whiskey and a bad...
The Woman in Flowered Dresses by Barry Yedvobnick
The Woman in Flowered Dresses by Barry Yedvobnick Ben Birk stared at the wall menu with his eyes moving like REM sleep. He wasn’t surprised by the gorgeous Grand Canyon panorama. It was a...
Just What I Needed… by J.D. Fratto
Just What I Needed… by J.D. Fratto I walk in at 7:15: later than usual and Tara’s still not home; not in the kitchen, the TV room, the bedroom; not even the back yard....
I Dream Of Satan by Doug Hawley
I Dream Of Satan by Doug Hawley As a young boy, I was moved from the bedroom that I inhabited with my older sister to the room in the attic that my father had...
Taking Rosie Home by Bill Tope
Taking Rosie Home by Bill Tope After she had spent the last thirty-six hours with her sister and me, and Sunday morning had finally come round, it was time to take Rosie home. She...
Glen by Bill Tope
Glen by Bill Tope “He is drop-dead gorgeous,” remarked an otherwise erudite woman of my acquaintance. Physically, the man was a cross between Jim Morrison and a young Jackson Browne. “He undresses you with...
Two Kings For Toltan by R. K. Olson
Author’s Note: The Spearslayer Sect was annihilated at the Battle of the Golga River by the treachery of the Three Nation Alliance. A thousand years of knowledge and the perfection of the warrior arts...
Cool Load by Wally Runnels
Cool Load by Wally Runnels A black air taxi roared over on its way to JahdFo, a penal colony on Mars. Probably twenty years old and wearing a ragged T-shirt with bushy hair and...
The Zen Master by Wally Runnels
The Zen Master by Wally Runnels Rocky was nervous about Moss Briggs. Hadn’t seen him for a while. Past eighty years old, he lived below the Mexican-American Border. He was a tough ole boy...
