My boots thud rhythmically on the flagstone path as I cross campus, my face cool and calm though my mind seethes with frustration. I’ve been telling everyone for weeks now that Marjorie’s out to get me, but no one seems to be making the same connections I am.

William Welch lives in Utica, NY, where he writes poetry, and works as a registered nurse in one […]

It doesn’t matter how old I grow, the kings of Egypt
will never say my name. Not only the first-born succumb
to loneliness. We all live that way, aging like wine.

Charles Joseph Albert has worked in nuclear physics, air pollution, data recovery, and metallurgy. Through it all he […]

I sit back down on the broken car seat we use for a couch and don’t think about Papa and I don’t think about Sergey and I definitely don’t think about what Pan Zielinski just said. I put that shit clean out of my mind and I turn the game up to watch Bolsinero make another crazy-ass pass to Márquez… but of course he misses.

Zary Fekete has worked as a teacher in Moldova, Romania, China, and Cambodia. They currently live and work […]

The gossip in the building was that the column of Russian tanks had advanced up Bartok street on their way to do something with the rebellion. What was less clear was whether a tank had actually come into the back yard as they claimed. 

Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, and a part-time poet. He lives and writes […]

It was late when Silvia pulled into Franconia, far later than she had planned. She found a diner on the quiet main street, but it was closed, as was most everything else in the town. Worse yet, the fuel lamp on the dashboard of the Mercedes shined a bright red.

Paul Smith is a civil engineer who has worked in the construction business for many years. He has […]