Rupanjali Baruah Assam, India Rain is moving towards an obscure destination, no name, just a place, the address unknown, but the reason for its arrival is quite known. It will begin some unsavory revelations in some lives. The sky rumbles in a cloudy, cool manner. The rain, in this way, takes a shorter route to…
Tag: SHORT FICTION
A Rain-Washed Note
The Widening Gyre
Joanna Hoyt Tuesday morning was almost lovely enough to drive the memory of nightmare, the dream- images of friends and neighbors melting into a faceless mob, out of Ellen’s mind. The full moon hung low in the western sky. The east was streaked with pale gold clouds. Ellen would have lingered to savor it, to…
The Bright Drop
Inside Passages
Charlotte Lenox Philadelphia, PA USA 19104 I. No roads led in or out of Juneau, sealing off a silent city from a silent world. Traffic never clogged its only highway. Houses were vacant, the cars and boats in their driveways still bright and shiny. Yet, somehow, Brown Bear Groceries was always well-stocked with food that…
Olympia
The Jigsaw Puzzle
M. David Hornbuckle Alabama, USA The sun. It’s been one of the hottest days of the year, mid-July, but the sun is finally starting to descend behind the tree line. The laundry is clean. The dishes are clean. The kitchen and bathroom floors are mopped. Everything has been dusted. The shower curtain has been replaced…
The Dream
SWARMERS
OVERLAND SYNOPSIS
Mark Stephen Levy Los Angeles, California Magical Kabul suddenly turns dangerous as four people find and lose love in the midst of the 1979 Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. OVERLAND is a 58000 word travel/adventure love story set in this remarkable and timeless part of the world. Danny hopes to marry Heather after his final…