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An Old Letter from El Salvador

By Ronald E. Yates

Ready for Company

By Stephen Geez

This place looks a filthy mess, Margie thought. “Three miserable years,” Babs announced, tromping around the kitchen, bagel

Veneer

By Stephen Geez

A Short Story from the book Comes this Time to Float: 19 Short Stories by Stephen Geez   In the end, bad weather

Rave On

By Beem Weeks

Ten minutes till. The clock beside my mattress flings every spent second into my lap, nudging me so much closer to whatever is

Holler Song

By Stephen Geez

Holler Song Short Fiction By Stephen Geez   Retta danced the willy-nilly, grabbed at slick branches, then lost

Bodies Terrestrial

By Beem Weeks

Jimmy McNamara’s hand lingered atop that skinny shifter, eagerly awaiting the jump from second to third gear, and the growing

Sweetie Girl

By Beem Weeks

I don’t know why I even bother. It’s not like we were ever close. You failed me when Dad died. You failed me and Jeffrey. But

Horizons

By Margaret Montrose (Aphrodite)

HORIZONS (Inspired by a vision from my little yacht-cockpit lying anchored in the river on an Autumn Evening) Oh Flight of

The Unicorn or Truth from Myth

By Margaret Montrose (Aphrodite)

The Unicorn or Truth from Myth Written as a Thank-You to ‘The Red Lion’ at Waterfall     ‘The

1013 Baker Street

By McKenzie Swenson

1013 Baker Street By McKenzie Swenson Look away, close your eyes, run back to the

A Dream

By Margaret Montrose (Aphrodite)

A Dream (From To Brave a New World) On their first meeting  - upon he saving her from having walked out of her Teaching

Krab Kaper

By Stephen Geez

KRAB KAPER Short Fiction By Stephen Geez   Some lettuce just leaves a bad taste.   I don’t know