Spotlight
by Zack Kullis: Solitude grants volume to even the faintest of noises. The wind breaking against the old building hummed and moaned until it whistled in through cracks and broken windows. Rotten floorboards creaked and sighed. Bones, shells, enchanted pottery and [...]
by Pat Tyrer: She cut across the park in the rain, moving as quickly as her heels would allow. The heavy cloud cover left the park dreary; even the grass looked grayish. The trees had given into fall and the smell [...]
by James Ward Kirk: Adam Glacies sat in his green plastic chair under the fading sun staring at his dead wife’s dead rose garden. Even though this Indiana May, already too hot, promised a healthy garden for Angela’s flowers, they [...]
by Gerardo Delgadillo: My nose freezes when it goes below zero. Hate this digging gig. It’s way too late—even for the graveyard shift. Graveyard. Ha. Joel pushes his shovel in the dirt. “You helpin’?” “One sec.” I fish a smoke [...]
by O. D. Hegre: You’ve seen ‘um. Those faces you just know you’ll never forget – especially on women. Yeah, especially on a woman sporting those beautiful blue eyes like Grace Kelly or Cameron Diaz but with that aquiline nose. [...]
by James Ward Kirk: Lazarus tossed the tissue into the trashcan next to his computer, logged off the website and stood. The naked light bulb glowed the color of grapefruit, the walls neon blue, buzzing like a horsefly. The room’s [...]
by Dominic Blewett: Clouds swarm over there like boiling milk and the fog rolls in. It drifts slowly slowly towards me in the unfolding minutes as I have drifted to this place over the course of these last few months. [...]
by Kenneth Kaye: Sheriff McKlusky sighed as he pulled into the small drive. Normally dead animals were not in his job description, but Derek had insisted and it was on his way. A warm, uncomfortable wind blew down the street [...]
by Nick Medina: If it hadn’t been for the forest between our homes, Justin West and I wouldn’t have done what we did. And I wouldn’t be in the chains I’m in now. We were just kids when we met; [...]
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