Theme 03: “Vice”
Plaza del Sol
Fiction by Julian Gallo
“He can’t imagine how such a young woman would find a man his age so attractive? She hardly knows him. What is she thinking?”
A Path Through the Dandelions
Fiction by Hank Kirton
“Lying in a puddle of purple vomit, Lottie von Scrodd interviews herself as if she is a guest on a highbrow PBS talk show.”
Eyes Closed
Fiction by Alexis MacIsaac
“Jade looks even more desperate than me to hold onto the night, and I think of Olivia, if Olivia is just more honest about her fears than us, and it’s her honesty that we find repellant.”
Essential Workers
Fiction by John Byutorie
“We walked past the empty beauty products …the only products still on shelves being the newly marketed NeauSkin that rolled out a few months ago alongside a robust marketing scheme complete with cardboard cutout of Reese Witherspoon in deadface…”