Pilgrimage by Dr. Huckleberry Leslie put her hand on her hip, cocked her head to the side and with a high-pitched, back of the throat breath gasped, “When we get back, I have an appointment to get my hair done by my boyfriend, Thor. He’s gay, but he sends me cute thank-you cards.” Leslie says [...]
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Lifeline by Matthew Braun His knees always told him when the rain was coming. Before he got out of bed or turned on the news to watch the smiling idiots. Before he even opened his eyes, he knew the weather for the day. As Carl looked at himself in the mirror he examined his wispy [...]
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Sharing Heroes by Jeremy Nelson When people take the time to ask me who I am and how I got to be here today, I tell them about my therapist and the conversations we had about my condition and how I endured. I tell them about my childhood and the end of a dream. I [...]
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No Rain in the Rose City by Shelley Stearns and Jody Jones Lela wiped her hands across the bus kiosk. The city’s public transit map lit up under her palm, revealing a web of confused colors inter-tangled like a basket of yarn. She moved her fingers in and out to separate one from the next. [...]
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Thursday’s Child by Anne Trainor If this were a story, it would start with: Once upon a time, there was this woman who was sleep walking. She tried and tried to wake up. The problem was, she had forgotten about the little people. No, not people with dwarfism or people of lower class status, this [...]
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