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NO BOYS: By Konrad Hartmann 23 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
“Mum-Mum, what’s a Wolfssege?” Katie asked, sitting at her grandmother’s kitchen table. “Dunnerwetter!” Katie heard her grandmother curse under her breath, dropping a glass into the sink. “Are you o...
CORKSCREW BOB: By Andy Evans 22 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Your internet date is coming. His name’s Brian Plath. He looks cute from his profile. You have high hopes. The email said 7.30pm. You’ve rearranged your hair for the thirteenth time, freshened your br...
MEMOIR: By George Brannen 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
That’s me, in the photo; all dressed up like a little girl. My long curly blond hair flows so natural down to the pretty frilly bows that cover the dress mother had bought at JCPenney. My sister accom...
AND THE DARKNESS FELL: By Dawn Napier 20 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
She wasn’t frightened, not yet. Her heart pounded steadily, and her breath quickened only a trifle. But she wasn’t afraid. She was alert and deeply aware of her surroundings. But she was not afrai...
NO GOOD DEED: By P. J. Metz 19 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Thin white socks, washed to gray shapelessness. Clumpy, lace-up, old lady oxfords, scuffed and black. Faded, oversized, print house dress. He put on the fly-away gray wig, and with it firmly in pla...
RED FLAGS: By Richard J. O’Brien 5 Aug 2013 | 04:47 am
For years, I tried to go the straight and narrow route; but then I got hungry for the old days. My luck turned for the best when I was called back to Greenwich College by Claude Maynor, the English De...
HI THERE, SWEETIE: By Michael Johnston 1 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
“Hi there, sweetie.” “Hey, Mum.” This thing in my room was not my mother. “What’re you up to? Sleeping?” “Yeah.” It was 2 am. I was in my room. I had woken to the sight of my mother standing at ...
FREQUENT DONOR: By Konrad Hartmann 19 Jul 2013 | 08:09 pm
“Why don’t we go ahead and do your hand today?” Tina asked. “Are my veins that bad?” I asked. “Oh, no!” she said, looking down at the blood draw kit. “It’s just a good idea to give them a rest once ...
THE SOLIDARITY OF COWS: By Reed Beebe 18 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
The cows woke Brennan that morning. She heard the cows’ mooing, unusual because the farmhouse was a good distance from their gated pasture. She looked down from her room’s window, and despite the th...
FLOATERS: By Ray Laskowski 12 Jul 2013 | 01:05 pm
At night. They come to me at night. Not the middle, sound asleep, REM kind of night, more like that twilight time between awake and slumber. At first is was the subtle, nondescript, almost colorless h...
