The Purple Geranium ~ Katherine Joyce

Apr 28, 2022 | Fiction

New York City had never felt so dead. Alek stared out the window, shocked at the lack of cars in Lower Manhattan. If he squinted closely enough, he could just make out  powder-blue surgical masks on the poor essential souls who couldn’t find a taxi driver and...

Girls! Girls! Girls! ~ Cindy Rodi

Apr 28, 2022 | Fiction

“Tessa Turner.”  “But what’s your real name?” “That is my real name.”  “It sounds like a stripper name.” “Then I guess I was meant for the job.”   He didn’t give her any preparation after he hired her.  Once he deemed her boobs “big...

Meadow ~ Katherine Joyce

Apr 28, 2022 | Fiction

When I was a little girl, I used to run to the meadow. In spring, the wildflowers were just beginning to bud, green sprouts braving the risk of frost. As the school bells rang for the last time, signifying the end of each school year, the blossoms would be in full...

Marie ~ Emily Logue

Apr 28, 2022 | Fiction

The pungent smell of smoke hung in the air. The ringing in Charlie’s ears drowned out the groans of the dying scattered around him. He moved his hand and felt the cold mud his limp body was caving into.  “Is my uniform wet from the mud or blood?” Charlie wondered to...

The Timekeeper ~ Ben Margaryan

Apr 28, 2022 | Fiction

I watched the second hand of the watch tick idly by, as my obsession grew stronger. It was 10:27 p.m. New York local time, in the 20th year of the 21st century on the 203rd rotation of the Earth around the sun. I was walking home from work when a sudden thought began...