By Zondra Lynn I believe it’s safe to assume that around about now he’s arriving home from work, finding that the kids have been home for about an hour now, alone. I believe he’s looking at the kids and has asked them, rhetorically, “Where’s your mother?” I can hear him calling my name as he [...]
Head Injury
By Naomi Taylor Did she jump out? Was it an accident? Why won’t he tell me? I ask him, “Where is she? Where is she right now?” He spreads his arms out and says, “Right here, she’s right here.” What does he mean? There’s nothing there, just his dirty shirt and leather jacket. The porch [...]
Click x 6
by Tom Leventhal 1 I wonder sometimes why I am so scared of people. Because of these fears I spend a lot of my time alone. I am most alone when I am out in public, surrounded by seemingly happy people, paired off or in groups, laughing, drinking and having a good time. I am [...]
Lilith
by Ron Metzger She was beautiful, loving and created by the same Earth as Adam. Lilith was Adam’s first wife. When she wouldn’t accept subservience from Adam, she was banished by God from the Garden. It wasn’t easy back then to be born as an adult with no experiences from childhood. God just plops you [...]
Snow Shelter
by Lia Mier The sun came up early, but all around her she felt shadows. Eva awoke as she always did, acutely aware of the cold. After being raised in the long dark Alaska winters the sun-filled mountain crispness should not have bothered her as much as it did, but this cold was the kind [...]
The Channelers
by David Thomas Sometimes it seems as if there is scant hope for mankind and we humans little more than shaved apes. In our pettiness and ignorance and avarice, we clumsily stumble along, rarely seeing the shimmering beauty all around us, and certainly not in our own eyes as we gaze in the mirror. Religion [...]
