by Kenneth Cook May 1958 Laura watched the thunderstorm from the living room window. The clouds bloated and darkened, common in the Panhandle in the late afternoons, and then it poured’a gusty, whipsaw wind driving the rain sideways against the house. The rain hardened into thick, white pellets of hail, which soon sheeted the yard. [...]
Yearly Archives: 2003
Viva La Spurr by Gabriella Herkert
by Gabriella Herkert I learned more from the other writers at the Maui Writers’ Conference than I did from the presenters. True, I paid my conference fee to see the likes of John Saul and Terry Brooks but I learned the most from Janet Spurr.
Ixnay on the Three-Way by Jody Reale
by Jody Reale It was not so long after Our Ugly Wedding that I made a friendly gesture toward my husband, Alex. We were in the car, taking a springtime drive to Boulder. We were going to walk down the pedestrian mall while eating ice cream, watching the buskers and musicians perform, but not the [...]
Bernie and Me by Emily Raboteau
by Emily Raboteau Bernie-ism 18.1: It is a privilege to be able to invent oneself. It is also a burden. My big brother Bernard took great pains to learn how to talk Black. Street Black. Prophet Black. Angry Black. Which wasn’t something you heard a lot of where we grew up. It started when his [...]
The Race by Gabriella Herkert
by Gabriella Herkert She runs. Out the door, down the stairs and away. Away from the shrilling telephone. Away from them. Haunting her. Hounding her. Tonight, so close. Reaching out with cloying hands to drag her back to the past, to the pain. The rain clatters against the street, dark sheets of mind-numbing cold, the [...]
Rejection, by Genre by Debbie Taber
by Debbie Taber Like a disease, they pay no regard to age, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, financial status, or ability to dance the tarantella. Rejection letters find writers in every genre, and we all have to deal with them somehow.
The Story of Shamus Kelly by Alex Kachmar
by Alex Kachmar ‘When I turn 29, I’m gonna put a bullet through my head.’ And that’s how I meet Shamus Kelly.
Anna Louise by David Lee Kirkland
by David Lee Kirkland I stand at my window offer bare breasts, press them like lilies into the cold glass. They flatten like new moons. I wonder who watches, who might enter the space between. from Voyeur, by Karla Huston Anna Louise took us all by surprize, you might say, reading that poem. She keeps [...]
Fresh Bones by D.K. McCutchen
by D.K. McCutchen “The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale’s heart.’ – Paley’s Theology My Kiwi crewmate Simon had [...]
The Tricycle Personality Test by Gabriella Herkert
by Gabriella Herkert Tricycle technique molds personality. I know it sounds crazy but I think it’s a theory with some merit. It’s actually my mother’s hypothesis. Granted, she’s the same person who suggested sticking my toe in a hollowed potato for blood poisoning and taught me to short sheet a bed. Her judgment has been [...]