Semi-Detached by Victoria Stewart
When they lived in a Victorian terrace, they used to joke that there was a body buried in the cellar, Dr Crippen-style. Now they’d moved to a 1930s semi, Paul said Emma…
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The Used Car Salesman by Will Musgrove
Used car salesmen don’t smell like their dealership counterparts. Doesn’t mean we don’t try. We douse expensive colognes and deodorants on our wrists and armpits, but you can’t duplicate a dealership’s newborn…
What Do I Wear to My Friend’s Funeral? by Zach Murphy
I didn’t reply to Jacob’s last text message to me, but I did show up to his funeral. I’d spent the entire morning deciding what to wear. A lot of the clothes…
One Penny Sit-up, Two Penny Hang by Karen Walker
The boy smells of straw and stretches his s’s. When he asssks my name, the gas lamp on my corner hisses do not tell him. From Ssshropsshire, he says he is. And me? From the…
What the Books Told Her by Salena Casha
It all started when the books began speaking to her. It was innocent enough at first, just instructions on when to water the plants and recommendations for a new eyeliner. A recipe…
Obit_v1.docx by Andrew Cominelli
Ella XXXXX, age 10, of Medford, died passed away entered the next life passed away on November 9, 2005. Ella was the daughter beloved daughter of XXXXX and XXXXX XXXXX, and the…
New Frontiers by Ciku Gitonga
He got skittish when I called him beautiful. He would change the subject, talk over me about something mundane. He would come on to me like this: he would stand in front…
Waiting in the Grass by A.L. Gordon
I watch you through the window, you and your brother, spinning each other on the tire swing. He sits with his butt in the center of the tire, his legs flopped over…
Passenger Control by Anne Summerfield
Her summer job was to check off names on airplane boarding dockets against hotel rooming lists. This was so long ago that all documentation was on scraps of paper, often handwritten, sometimes…
Two Dudes and Three Witches by Chris Cottom
From: richard.burbage@globe.comTo: will.shakespeare@stratford.com Subject: The Three Witches Hi Will Thanks for changing the title of Two Dudes of Verona. It wasn’t right, like Romeo and Cleopatra and The Merry Wives of Wimbledon.…
Breaking Windows by Jan Kaneen
Dangerous things, windows — for their transparency and fragility, and soooo tempting from the outside in. I should know — spend my life gazing through them. Doing it now as I write…
Bumping Glasses by Emma Colby
He is from Chicago. He tells me this with his hand barely touching my lower back, nervous to make too much physical contact too soon. His other hand is holding the neck…