Stories
Story of the Week
I’d done what no woman of my race and social station had ever done.
Classics
I was the man in her life. I know I’m different now. Now I’m a bird.
Story of the Week
I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.
Story of the Week
The boy in the woods was a secret. My secret. My first real secret.
Story of the Week
Thus John Redding grew to manhood, playing, studying and dreaming.
Story of the Week
I didn’t know that by falling for you, I was falling for your demons too.
Story of the Week
There’s something about traveling by plane. People tell their secrets.
Fiction
I put my hand on my stomach and had an image of the melting snowman.
Fiction
Takis brought down the demons that would pursue him the rest of his life.
Story of the Week
If he wanted to kiss Sophie tonight, he probably shouldn’t steal from her.
Fiction
They give me a pitying look, as if I am alone, and they are invincible.
Story of the Week
Their eyes met from time to time. I thought about what I could tell her.
Fiction
I imagined myself magnanimous, but now I see. I have been cruel.
Story of the Week
I caught a breath of that fear, and hid, that day, from the messenger.
Fiction
No woman he’d ever been with responded so unmistakably.
Story of the Week
These men don’t ask me to remove my scarf, even though it’s mid-July.
Story of the Week
Frank Avery came into the kitchen. In his left hand he carried a .22 pistol.
Fiction
He was afraid he would be sucked into the world like this cousin had.
Fall Contest Winners
I became a realist the moment they tied a brick to my balls.
Classics
After her divorce she took up with a cowboy named Wicks.
Story of the Week
He can’t remember the last time they made love. It has become a game.
Fiction
No matter how hard I played, it was like I was performing inside a vacuum.
Fiction
He spoke of the river’s origins as though telling of the birth of a god.
Story of the Week
“It’s so unfair being accused of doing something you didn’t do.”
