Charlie Dims It was her last chance. A girl just out of college, she needed to find her identity before entering the world. Since birth, she had been in search of a name that she could be satisfied with. She needed to understand who she was as a person, which had not come easy. During…
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TOWARD THE LIGHT
Phil Richardson 7010 Cornell Rd. Athens, Ohio 45701 richardc@ohiou.edu Thomas’s wife stood with him at the entrance to the crumbling lighthouse, but she would not go in. “I don’t think you should climb up there, Thomas,” she said. “What do you think you’ll find?” Thomas ignored her and opened the heavy wooden door, which moaned…
Chance Encounter
Paulina Shur Address: 10 Starboard Way, Latham, NY 12110 As always during rush hour, passengers on the subway train were so crammed, there was hardly any room to move an elbow. The train’s abrupt stops shoved them into each other, and in order to exit, they had to thrust their way through the crowd. Such…
Stranger Things
Jamie Wilson Seattle, Washington Squirreled away on the second floor with the customer service girls, the collection guys, the loan processors, and other invisible employees, Paul wonders if the fluorescent lights ever stop burning. The lights—hidden behind frosted plastic panels that play hopscotch with gray ceiling tiles—are on when he arrives in the morning, when…
The Mirror
Excerpt from Novel -The One Percent
Clutter
The Cookie Man
An. Ray Norsworthy Boise, USA Because the sun kills the improvident, and the cookie man is nothing if not provident, he always comes into town about an hour before dusk, his elongated shadow preceding him down Main Street. The only sound is the wind whistling the day’s last fevered breath. No dog scampers out to…
Snapshot
Mitanjeli Tischler Kansas, USA The Separation Everything is arranged. The lights are on, and the groceries sit on the counter. The coffee pot is clean, the tea boxes stacked on the shelf. Yellow peppers and green bananas remain in their plastic bags on the floor. The man and the woman argue at the front door,…