Because
/…are you wearing your snowsuit to the beach? Her frustration with the boy, as only a mother’s frustration could, bounced through the room…
By Fran Pearce
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The Overwhelming Smell
/"Well Does It Smell…
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…afternoon turned into early evening very quickly and young Paulie made it home right before the sunlight turned its duties over to the…
By Marc OBrien
Read MoreMy Father’s Hand
/A story about loss and…
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…long time his gaze stuck to the old, square photo with the typical white border and the
brownish tones of the 7o ´s, then he put the photo from his…
By Sugar de Santo
Read MoreSuffering Pleasure
/…light candles throughout my Studio apartment not so much as to create a romantic or Gothic ambience, but instead to be able to navigate around my four hundred square foot living space with a small amount of light. Evidently, it seems my…
By Judge Santiago Burdon
Read MoreNational Best Witch
/…invigilator was at it again, distracting me with her silly talks of making sure our student ID numbers, course code and title were correctly written on the cover of the answer booklet. She smiled at my desperation, thinking it was funny. Her smile accentuated her ugly red lipstick and shifted her…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreIt Happened One Christmas
/…missed his late mother and the chicken and jollof rice she used to prepare on Christmas day while he played in the sand with his friends. He remembered the excitement on his face as he tried new Christmas clothes in his room and went out to show it to his…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreJust Desserts
/What seems to be the perfect…
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…Kathleen O’Brien walked through a narrow cobblestone passage way to St. Brigid’s Church. She hated walking by Sully’s Bar with its overpowering stench of booze and abundance of seedy characters hanging around but she was late for services…
By Nancy Richy
Read MoreMrs. Lucy
/Listen to the story things…
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…morning. I opened the front door, as I do every day, to bring in the fresh milk for breakfast. This time was a handbill stuck under the glass bottle with writing on it: Household liquidation. I read the note quickly, while I was brewing coffee for breakfast. After coffee, I got…
By Sugar de Santo
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