Daniel H. Wilson | Crystalline
“Who loves you?” I ask. My daughter looks away. Doesn’t answer. I lean down and turn her to face me, resting my thumb in the dimple in her chin. It’s the same dimple her mother has. Or had. “You love ...
2 Maalis 202327min
Sam J. Miller | His Guns Could Not Protect Him
I punched my brother because he was an idiot, because he couldn’t see what I saw, how hard mom held onto the dish rag when she came out onto the deck to tell us dad had been in an accident, which is w...
23 Helmi 202336min
Carrie Vaughn | Learning Letters
Enid sat on the front porch of Haven’s clinic with a half a dozen books, some paper, and a small chalkboard. Three days a week, when she was in town, she taught reading to Haven’s children who wanted ...
2 Helmi 202343min
Jendayi Brooks-Flemister | From the Largest Crater
AUDIO LOG BF-0003 / 2083-14-09 13:36 / This . . . feels strange. They said that it’s healthy for those of us whose spouses take Return Missions to record our thoughts. Audio journaling, they called it...
26 Tammi 202338min
Scott Edelman | A Man Walks Into a Bar: In Which More Than Four Decades After My Father’s Reluctant Night of Darts on West 54th Street I Finally Understand What Needs to Be Done
My father was so honest, people often spoke of him in cliches. For example---you know the way someone will sometimes say so-and-so was so honest they’d walk five miles to return an extra nickel they’d...
5 Tammi 202343min
Aimee Ogden | Mad Honey
The three wolves in the sun-smeared wood did not turn and run when Aran approached with his musket in hand. Wolves were supposed to run from men with guns. This was the way of the world. Sweat and nec...
22 Joulu 202225min
L.D. Lewis | Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates
STAND BACK DOORS CLOSING. Dee heard the musical bing-bong of the departure warning between song transitions in her headphones, and watched as the heads of workers in line ahead of her lolled back in t...
1 Joulu 202231min
Kristina Ten | The Noon Witch Goes to Sound Planet
The Noon Witch is not a cat person. She likes the color purple, hates police procedurals, loves breakfast foods, thinks scented bath products and anchovy pizza are gross. Hates platform shoes. Hates w...
24 Marras 20221h 1min
