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The Turnpike

The Turnpike

by | Nov 26, 2016 | S, Scott Dingley, Short Story

The way it starts, the fragment of memory that forms the shadow of my rebirth, is hurt. I keep coming back to that; call it ground zero. A searing sort of pain, not the fleeting kind, the kind that puts unexpected tears in a grown man’s eyes and makes him smile...
Deuce

Deuce

by | Nov 23, 2016 | Short Story, T, Tony Conaway

I walked down the alleyway again, making sure that there was only one way in or out of this converted garage. If Rance actually lived in that dump, this wasn’t going to be a murder. It’d be a mercy-killing. +++++I stepped back into an alcove while a car...
The Mexico Joke

The Mexico Joke

by | Nov 19, 2016 | M, Mike Walton, Short Story

My head bobs like a balloon on the barstool. Alcohol melts and mixes with adrenaline in my blood, swirling like the Spanish conversations sweeping back and forth across my head. It sounds like an audience getting settled. +++++The theater where I performed is across...
Two-Fer

Two-Fer

by | Nov 16, 2016 | M, M C Neuda, Short Story

Why is it, no matter what you do and what you say, there are some guys you can’t stop from running over a cliff? +++++I tried to tell Joey that Charlene was forbidden fruit, that no way was he going to have a girl even like her. +++++That Charlene wasn’t...
The Tattoo

The Tattoo

by | Nov 12, 2016 | D, David Jaggers, Short Story

Today should be the best day of my life. Here I stand, in the sunshine after two hard years in a Mexican prison, breathing the air of freedom. Only it’s not the best day, not even close. +++++“Hey gringo, you coming or not? I got room for one more. This train leaves...