Santa Rosario
It was late day in Santa Rosario, warm and muzzy and orange like a clementine. Randy Whitt walked home from the corner gas station with a...
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Mar 30, 20236 min read
Only One of Us
Shel and I wake up simultaneously every morning, our eyes fluttering in synchrony. First thing, we share our dreams. Shel dreams in...
Mar 19, 20234 min read
Come Out Where I Can See You
It comes from having an older brother. Brotherhood is a lawless fraternity, but even still my brother George was a rogue without peer....
Mar 8, 202314 min read
you can't drown a woman with just a room full of water
Bethel Sykes had always been one to do good the bad way. It was like there was an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other and the...
Mar 1, 20237 min read
I Hardly Have a Minute
“I hardly have a minute.” Denise was radiant as always, candy floss hair spun up in a midnight waterfall, eyes encrusted in purple dust...
Feb 22, 20233 min read
The Summoner's Lament
For starters, I did not have access to an uncircumcised baby. Those are traditionally rather difficult to procure. I know a guy, but he's...
Feb 21, 20237 min read
Terms and Conditions
"Death is the province of fools," said Calibast, leaning deeply into the white, wicker chair. Roald snickered. "Everyone dies." "Then...
Feb 12, 20238 min read
One of a Million
The first letter sat unopened on Lisbeth's kitchen table for a month. It was nondescript, lacking a return address or any identifying...
Feb 8, 20237 min read
Rust
The letter didn't interest Bal so much as the fact that it even got to him in the first place. "You are not an easy man to find," said...
Feb 4, 20237 min read
Motive & Means
Bertram wears his thinking cap. That's what I call it anyway. Really, it's just a silly little dog-sized Sherlock hat he lets me put on...
Feb 1, 20236 min read
CHILDREN OF APOLLO
Isaac came aboard the Eurydice at Ganymede. He was part of the crew that installed the hyperbaric chambers in the Turner-Al Saad...
Jan 26, 20236 min read
The Gash
It was dizzying. Disorienting. Mireille felt herself inexplicably pulled downward by the dark gash in the crystal white. And it was...
Jan 17, 20235 min read
A Great Day for Canada
Wayne LaFell had never wanted a career in politics. Even as a 45 year old man with a wife, three children, and an underwater mortgage, he...
Jan 10, 202314 min read
We Only Recruit Heroes
Nadia Reyes lives in this house. It’s not much of a house, but I suppose if it was anything to talk about I probably wouldn’t be standing...
Jan 8, 20237 min read
A Nest of Frost and Steel
Bassa, how the wind howls! How it plucks at my numb flesh with swarming ghost pincers. There is no escape in this white plain. The cold...
Jan 5, 20235 min read
RE: Miller Family Funeral Home (2010-2016)
It all started with Aunt Esther. She was a pink, pork roast of a woman with a heavy, beetle brow and a remora mouth frozen in a wide oval...
Jan 4, 20233 min read
A Coming Cold
The bottom edge of the painted textile sheath briefly caught fire as 0109011 walked past the low, stone basin of flame. "Lady, watch...
Jan 2, 20232 min read
All the Luck
Auggie lay horizontally across the leather sectional, his left leg elevated at the knee by thee goose feather pillows, the cast of his...
Jan 1, 20233 min read
Rory, Who Wanders
"It's Rory, you say?" Edmund rapped his fingers across the line of his jaw. "Rory Wentworth?" The man on the other end of the line...
Dec 26, 202215 min read
The Gray Shores
I remember my eleventh year the best. All the years previous to my eleventh were notable only for their monotony and repetition. But...
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