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True Love, Part 5
X. “Won’t your parents be missing you?” Ken asked as Kamishiro stretched in front of the mirror. “My parents? How considerate of you to ask,” she…
“Mefloquine Nightmares,” “Sunset at the Cafe del Mar,” and “Cross-Country”
Mefloquine Nightmares 21 days to leave the system is what they told us all; then why, years after, do the dark, lonely nights of terror still…
A Hair’s Breadth, Part 3
VI. The man, looking disheveled in a rumpled blue shirt, grimaces as he tries to sit up in a dimly-lit room. The place stinks of stale cigarette…
Exit Evaluator
Marco. Let’s start with a name. Since there were few Drapers, he/she/it can stand for the others. They are all in a pile now in Kansas. Marco was…
“Unattended,” “A Gambit Afloat,” “Your Feather,” and “Norm”
Unattended As noon approaches, the tireless hands of my wall clock freeze and I think I have all the time in the world to fancy a time without you.…
In the Memory Palace
The memory palace is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's…
The Keeper of Secrets
The Keeper of Secrets sits in his office and reads something. It is a story by one of his students from the winter term creative writing course. A…
La Cazadora
Richard Garcia watches block after block of crumbling brick row homes. Industrial buildings pass the rented Chevy Suburban. It is silent except for…
6 to 6: The Hot Light
My ear sweats with the cell phone pressed against it. Riiinnnnnggggg. Riiinnnnnggggg. Riiinnnnnggggg. Riiinnnnnggggg. Riiinnnnnggggg. Riiinnn...…
