By Swoop Based on True Events 1985 It’s a beautiful California summer evening. A few miles east of Venice beach I drive slowly along a winding street patrolling the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Projects. “Hey Sanchez, got any baseball cards?” Children plead loudly from across the street. I hand a couple to the little boys [...]
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From the Snag
By Christine Stoddard I am the owl and I saw it all on that red and black night. The stars shattered the heavens with their brightness and cast an eerie light upon the scene below, like a stage light perhaps. They wanted to illuminate the drama taking place beneath them. If I remember correctly—and I [...]
Careless Mistake
By Lauren Kelly Another deep night surrendering to dawn’s burning glow, another job swiftly completed. A slight sardonic grin caresses my lips as I focus the tiny photo lens in my cell to the scene in the narrow alley lying before me. The softly rising sun giving the prostrate male a haloed angelic quality, if [...]
Things Die
By Dustin Orin Talley “Remember these things?” he asked and she smiled without acknowledgment, eyes on the computer screen like it held the secret to life. “These damn shit kickers, they saw quite a bit of…” and the familiar scream came from the next room. She looked at him and he rolled his eyes, knowing [...]
A Friend of Lou’s
Fiction, Stories by tleventhal
By Tom Leventhal Morty sat down at the kitchen table and spread open the newspaper. He balanced his coffee mug on his knee as he quickly ran through the front pages, skimming the news and sports. The table sat in the middle of his studio apartment and was the only substantial piece of furniture besides [...]
RXN
by Mitch Tirea Stop what? What are you talking about? You are nothing but a dream, a memory that needs to be repressed, an illusion that breaks my order and a feeling that asks for fulfillment. You are a hope without hope, an expectation without reward, adoration without refinement, a presence without existence and love [...]
Stones
By Tom Leventhal They were small and fragile looking in the palm of my hand. I turned each of them over, examining the delicate markings etched into them in a fine script that I could not read. The man stood next to me, hovering as though he was afraid that I would put them in [...]
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Honey, I’m home…
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 [...]
Resistance
By Janesays Come with me. I will take your hand. Let me gaze on your breast until my eyes burn. Bring me one more drink. I once asked myself why I fight for good when I can make so much more money doing the wrong thing. Last year we were in the middle of horrific [...]
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Mary’s Secret
Non Fiction, Stories by editor
By Ashley Murrell Children’s laughter and screams of joy drifted through the air around the playground on a warm spring day. Little hands flew up into the sky, expressing their hopes and dreams of the game that was most important that day. Lilly, the teacher chosen to supervise the kids’ outside time sighed as she [...]
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