Touch of Velvet by Bill Tope
Editor’s Note: This short story is a work of fiction. The views expressed in this fiction are solely of its author. This fiction does not reflect nor represent the views, beliefs and opinions of...
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Factory Theodicy by Olivier Faivre
Factory Theodicy by Olivier Faivre Theodicy: argument vindicating God’s goodness in view of the existence of evil We’re all looking at the financial auditor hunched over his paper-thin laptop. He’s perusing the digital scorecard...
Big Yellow by Bill Tope
Big Yellow by Bill Tope i Before I ever met him, Brett was described to me by my Iranian friend and housemate Vahid, as “some barfly from The Stagger Inn,” referencing a tavern where...
High Wire by Ken Foxe
High Wire by Ken Foxe How many times did Ryan wish, pray, day and night dream he could take those words back? When the rain poured down, when the wind howled, and when the...
Blood on His Boots by Gary Ives
Blood on His Boots by Gary Ives I am a small person. I yearned to be bigger, and early on realized how a uniform put a person perceptibly larger in the eyes of others....
Book Review: One False Step by Mark SaFranko
Rousing emotions and flailing humans Setting the atmosphere for yet another exploaration of human nature, the latest novel from SaFranko has you interested in protagonist Clay at once. You never know what you got...
The Keys to the Highway by Frederick K Foote
The Keys to the Highway by Frederick K Foote Back in the day, when I was a snot-nosed little rascal growing up in the country, the old folks used to say stuff like, “Homer...
Virgil Ross Ferrel by J.D. Fratto
Virgil Ross Ferrel by J.D. Fratto Although baptized as John Peter Ferrel, he changed his name to Virgil Ross Ferrel as a sympathetic gesture to his two brothers, Virgil and Ross, who were killed...
Homelessness by Frederick K Foote
Homelessness by Frederick K Foote Six pm in the kitchen of the Wheeler family consisting of Talbot, forty-five, his wife, Lexi, forty-two, their daughter Kia, twelve, and their son, Koy, age ten. Talbot’s father,...
Chess in Hanoi by Gary Ives
Chess in Hanoi by Gary Ives This is about my cousin Gordon who grew up rough. Nobody, including his mother Thelma, knew for certain who his father was, only that he was black. Sadly,...