by Scott Laughlin | Jun 15, 2019
Clara Jayne liked secrets. For example: 1. She liked sliding onto the wet spot after sex with Richard, her husband. 2. She didn’t want to have a child with Richard, or anybody. 3. She didn’t mind he’d gained twenty pounds since the marriage, though he didn’t...
by Ananda Lima | Apr 29, 2019
I once heard in NPR about a guy in Brooklyn who had a rat appear in his toilet. Apparently it climbed up the pipes and when the man walked in, there it was, looking up at him. No. In this story, the guy first lifted the lid of the toilet. I don’t know if...
by Babak Lakghomi | Nov 1, 2018
When Judy was taking another sip from the bottle, the car swerved to the right. Marcus grabbed the wheel, steered all the way to the left. Several minutes later, Judy pulled over and left the car. After staring at the valley beneath them, she crawled...
by AJ Atwater | Oct 15, 2018
The minister is at the Days of Jesus before the girl arrives. He is in his office, waiting. His sermon is written and placed on the pulpit and he waits for the girl to arrive as he has all summer. She comes in the side door and takes the stairs to the basement...
by Louise Marburg | Sep 12, 2018
A week after the fourth of July, my dog Speedy nipped an eight-year old kid who wandered onto my property from the subdivision across the way. Speedy was a Shepherd-Husky mix and normally pretty docile, so I thought the kid must have been teasing him,...
by Lee Ann Roripaugh | Aug 27, 2018
Fuji Bay in Sioux City, slow Monday night, and The Bachelorette’s on TV. She’s stopped on her way back from the airport, in an attempt to self-soothe with sushi. Earlier in the day, she said goodbye to The Beloved in a different airport, then dozed on and off...
