Fiction
High Score
Owen suppressed a sigh as the PoolMAX vehicle slowed for yet another stop. He checked the Pool app on his phone – swipe swipe tap – and let out a low groan. The rider cap was unlimited, meaning that the MAX could (and probably would) stop another dozen times before it reached Palo Alto. Catching […]
Dog Bites Man, New Jersey, 1884
I had been unquestioningly loyal to Himself even after he killed my mother.
“I REMEMBERED OMA
Her deafening silence and no trace suggested death. I’m uncertain about her death, but quite convinced it would take something close to it or a permanent amnesia for her to forget me this long time. I have not heard from my friend near two decades though my memories of her were as crisp as our […]
HappyMart
He says it is getting serious. And I believe him. I cannot see him from where I am sitting on the bus. The only glimpse I caught of him was through the front window I am facing as I watched him, on his phone, half run the last few steps to the door. And then […]
Griffin
“She’d been able to handle Alan, to contain everything, but after seeing Erin in the hospital, he’d unraveled like never before.”
Delilah
Delilah Singer and her husband and her daughter moved to the neighborhood that all families wanted to move to, but they moved into the wrong house. It was the last one on the corner of the street that led to the grocery store and to the movie theater—the one that everyone had to pass on […]