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A Whisper in the Well
Me and my sister were sent to live with Aunt Lissy for a while. Things were going bad in town. Something about the water supply. The sprawling…
“This is Just to Say” and “Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Canceling the West”
This is Just to Say The poetic tradition is lost like one of Little Bo Peep’s sheep. The universal is dead, stomped flat by narcissistic whining of a…
The Shadow Men, Part 1 — Excerpt 5
Alexander Shukhov stood restlessly outside the door of the Junkers, a soft wind blowing his hair back. He ignored the remains of his comrades still…
Where Secrets So Heavily Weigh
Pan's Paths once trod now lie forgotten beneath the lines of ley Nomadic rites and mother goddesses crossed rivers in India some say Tablets cracked…
Between
Between, between, b e t w e e n. Repeated, it became, unlike other words, more beautiful. It was a dictum, an absolute, a directive especially for…
A House in October Melancholy
It is the terribly sad hour of the season when the ghosts of the past are coming back like waves in a crazed kamikaze longing, salted in despair…
Brotherly Love, Part 4
As soon as I took a seat in Deepak’s worn sofa, I opened my mouth to speak, but instead burst out crying. “What’s going on, Beth?” Deepak asked…
Laredo
Through a hole in the insulation, plastic crinkling around his eye, Blackwell watches. It’s been a year of weather with many warnings. Wrought iron…
Michael
If I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes, I'd have never believed it. Michelle told me how dangerous he was, and I wouldn't accept a word of it. I…
Collateral Damages
In the aftermath of frenzied texting: if he didn’t have a wife who had survived breast cancer, if they didn’t have children, if it wasn’t the High…
