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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

1013 Baker Street

By McKenzie Swenson

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

Krab Kaper

By Stephen Geez

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

What People Call Love

By Marshall Shearer MD

Excerpted from Maximizing Happiness Through Intimate Communication The dynamics of a relationship that a person calls love

Friday Night Again

By Beem Weeks

Friday night again. Fridays always got there too fast. The shuffling outside of her bedroom door told on him, ratted him

Bus, Boy

By Stephen Geez

Bus Boy Short Fiction By Stephen Geez   Busboy.   André, the punk-ass busboy.   Scratchy

Yearbook

By Beem Weeks

My photograph is there in the yearbook, smack in the center of page 57, right above my full name: Thomas Alvin Rieger, Jr. I hate