Fiction
Spotlight on…
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"Oran, City of Stone"
by Peter Newall
“Oran, city of stone, stony-hearted city, we were born here, we made you what you are, but now you don’t want us any more. Which means you’re not Oran any more. Well, fuck it, as Luc would have said.”
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"The First Star at Twilight"
by Sophia Krich-Brinton
“Then I saw him, like the first star at twilight.”
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"I Dreamed a Lifetime"
by J.D. Lewis
“My last breath escaped and was engulfed by the fire of your aurora. And all was light.”
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"The Regular Reasons"
by James Callan
“I watch them from behind the bar—the regulars with their regular antics. Some of them call me the mixologist, others, the bartender. Most of them call me Frank.”
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"Mrs. True Love"
by Cam Mackie
“The man stared at Marcy Love. His name was Peter Lewis, not of Lewis & Clark & Builder & Miller & Sons fame (that was a coincidence), but a clerk from two floors up—and he was in love with her.”
Womenstration
by Lorraine Durbin
“Their husbands cry out in pain, while the wives microwave the heating pad for them. None dare to protest because the husbands are ready to say, ‘But you’re used to it!’”
Muffin or Something
by Alaina Hammond
“Before the ink was dry, we made our plan.”
I Dreamed a Lifetime
by J.D. Lewis
“My last breath escaped and was engulfed by the fire of your aurora. And all was light.”
Reflections in the Ice
by Anthony Kleem
“Satisfied, Michiko dried the nib and filled the pen with blue-black ink. She opened the shoji and watched the snow fall on the garden stones.”
Mother
by Mykyta Ryzhykh
“My finger is all pricked, it hurts, because I can't see well anymore, so I pass the needle by. But that's not important.”