by Ryan Sparks
I woke up to news reports but somehow didn’t understand them until I’d come back from the shower. The force of the fuselage of a giant airplane knocking out major support beams and the ensuing explosion had caused a building to fall. Odd. Then the same thing happened again. Then I knew. We [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Franklin Street Noise: Leonine Sees the End by Ryan Sparks
The Fat Lady Sings by Gabriella Herkert
by Gabriella Herkert‘At least tell me why. I deserve that much.’
‘Over is over, Ron.’ Liza folded her favorite red silk blouse and put it into the suitcase. The bedroom closet was still full of crisp white blouses and tailored slacks. She closed the half-full suitcase with a snap.
The End of the Line by Bobby Goldsmith
by Bobby Goldsmith
For Ray Younessi, life had all but lost its sense of wonder. Only the occasional inconsistency of time still held the power to make him marvel at life’s possibilities. Even if, for him, those possibilities lay buried in bygone years, only to manifest themselves in the abstracted, tortured cataracts that haunted him, teased [...]
Caris Underground by Susan Jane
by Susan Jane
Caris, you idiot. How many times did I tell you that it would kill you?
The Ascension of James G. Wetheart by Matt Jaeger
James G. Wetheart levitated once. Just the once, briefly, he was that much closer to heaven. No one witnessed his ascension, so he carefully transcribed the experience in an onionskin journal with a calligraphy pen. Among the details he wrote, “Who knows? But something providential came in and gathered me up.”
On that [...]
It’s Not Your Hat by Cate McGowan
“That’s my hat.” Your accuser’s black hair frizzes in a calamitous scribble–she really needs the hat more than you.
“No, it’s mine.” A lie. The words, monosyllabic, feel wrong rolling off your tongue. But it’s January; it’s Upstate; it’s finders keepers. To make your female accuser go away, to make her leave you alone with your [...]
Special Friend By Rawlins McKinney
A Short Story
By Rawlins McKinney
Seated next to her twin sister on a banquette at the Magnolia Grille, Mary Willie casually, almost flippantly, dropped the name of her latest married lover. They were celebrating their sixty-eighth birthday. Flossie did not appear to be surprised but the look of disgust on her face was evident to her [...]
Franklin Street Noise: Poetic Drift by Ryan Sparks
by ryan sparks
Bailey sat in the booth across from me, smoking an Ultra Light that was pointed towards the sloping ceiling above us. We were sitting in Ray’s Place underneath the stairs in the early afternoon. This is the only sane time to approach Ray’s, especially if you are with an older woman. So [...]