Dancer in the Water
My flight arrived in Detroit at ten after four. It was raining. I was so nervous to see everyone that I threw up in the bathroom next to the gate. […]
The Nine
The screeching howl of grinding metal resonated through Father Jerba’s two-story, one bedroom house that sat on the north end of campus. The crash and rumble startled him out […]
The Sheriff’s Decline
Sheriff Jetheford Reynolds had known for some time that his declining grasp on sanity would one day lead to his removal from office. He had just hoped it would come […]
The Friends We Keep
As difficult as it was with her increasing size, Amanda refused to stop bringing Jeremy his lunch every day at twelve fifteen. It wasn’t so much done out of enjoyment, […]
Ratings Game
Marlene had never had any intentions of becoming a celebrity or even going on TV. In fact, she hated TV and had since she was a child. But, when the […]
Life, Sincerely…
Danny sits on the queen size bed that he had won in the divorce, staring at the tiny monitor of his daughter’s laptop. He sold his computer, along with most […]
The Less Than Curious Tale of Jiminy Bean
The sordid half-truths that have been misrepresented as fact regarding the younger years of Jiminy Bean’s incredible life did not all come from his mother. She was a seamstress of […]
Curiously Strong
The curiously strong mints that Wilshire Hallenbrook had handed out at his summer gathering were peppermint flavored and quite delicious on the tongue. Later, survivors would recount that and that […]
The First of Many
In a small, suburban duplex someplace just northwest of Downtown Detroit, a young man named Gregory has just suffered his first rejection. It came over the phone while his best […]
Waking Tears
The vivid dreams of Timothy Sweath (preferably pronounced Sweet) are vastly documented in 51 spiral bound notebooks that lie in a box in his closet below his dress pants. He […]
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