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Whiskey Always Makes Him Talk

Whiskey Always Makes Him Talk

by | Oct 16, 2022 | B, B. E. Nugent, Short Story

Whiskey always makes him talk. +++++I hesitate before handing over the money and look from the barman to the glass. The kid behind the bar spills a little more into the already generous double. I pick it up and turn from the counter. +++++Bolton sits in the corner...
The Maximum High

The Maximum High

by | Oct 7, 2022 | A, Aaron Becker, Short Story

Nico was three parts excited, one part scared, as he readied himself to take a most extraordinary risk. The enigmatic 23-year-old striker removed his t-shirt and felt his pulse quickening: the upshot of both the circumstances and the opening bars of Energy 52’s Café...
Forgettable

Forgettable

by | Oct 1, 2022 | A, A. D. Metcalfe, Short Story

You have one of those faces. Forgettable. Features? Nondescript. Hair? Halfway between blond and brown. In the right light, could be either. The length, also ambiguous. Maybe a boy’s, maybe a girl’s. Your height: average. Weight: ditto. +++++You’re the type of person...
The L-Shaped Cafe

The L-Shaped Cafe

by | Sep 25, 2022 | S, Short Story, Stephen Myer

The old man’s skin is pale in the flickering light, the texture of worn parchment. Dark glasses turn his wrinkled face into that of a desiccated bug. His body seems like it could crumble at any moment from the shaking of the train. If not for the furry tufts pulsing...
Knot Guilty

Knot Guilty

by | Sep 16, 2022 | M, Mike Paterson-Jones, Short Story

Caleb Goodman was half Oneida Nation and half White American. He was proud of his Iroquois heritage and treasured his Oneida name, Black Badger. He was a fit, fifty-year-old owner of the Courtland Lumber Yard when his life fell apart. Life had been good to him. He had...