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Brother’s Keeper

by | Apr 30, 2014 | D, Donald Glass, Short Story

My brother Ronnie had been murdered, while I was in jail, shot in the head. The cops knew it, they’d bugged his apartment. They didn’t want Ronnie; he was a low level drug dealer and addict, just another nobody to them. Two piece of shit cops thought bugging his place...

Alchemy

by | Apr 23, 2014 | L, lee sykes, Short Story

Darius the killer felt a thousand police eyes on his scarred face. He scanned the deserted concrete maze and saw nothing but taunting graffiti that disappeared with a severe blink. A side effect of the meds, that were supposed to drag him out of his depression when...

Holes And Halves

by | Apr 19, 2014 | M, Margaret Adams Birth, Short Story

September knew she should be sleeping soundly by now. She looked at the clock face; it said two-twenty-two a.m. A bat buzzed overhead, above her bed—it did that every night after she turned out the light: it flew into the house through the rickety attic trap-door,...

Henry Showed Wendy His Paintings

by | Apr 4, 2014 | D, Donal Mahoney, Short Story

Henry and Wendy Throckmorton had been married a week when Henry took Wendy to his garret 100 miles south of their estate in posh Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago. Wendy thought she was going on a delayed honeymoon. Henry had never told her that he was a painter by...