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The Wing

The Wing

by | Dec 27, 2025 | S, Short Story, Steve Foreman

Briar Ridge Sanatorium in Louisiana was a rambling old stone fort-type edifice dominating the surrounding countryside from the crown of a hill and silhouetted against the sky like Castle Dracula. In the old days, before political correctness took its stranglehold on...
The Butcher of Treblinka

The Butcher of Treblinka

by | Apr 29, 2025 | S, Short Story, Steve Foreman

(A reimagining of a classic fairy tale) Part One My name is Grethel Kovač. I am eighty years old. I was born in a horse-drawn caravan in nineteen thirty-six in Bukovina, Romania. My brother, Hansel, was born in the same gaily painted wagon a year earlier. +++++We were...
Red from Da’Hood

Red from Da’Hood

by | Apr 18, 2025 | S, Short Story, Steve Foreman

(A reimagining of a classic fairy tale) Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Red. +++++Red lived in a small flat with her mother and father and her three siblings. +++++One day, Red’s mother, Joy, an auxiliary nurse who worked a permanent night shift at...
Odysseus

Odysseus

by | Apr 11, 2025 | S, Short Story, Steve Foreman

It hadn’t mattered who I’d told; no one had believed me, not my insurance company, not the maritime licensing authority, and not Lieutenant Joe Kurtz, after he had hauled me out of the lake. +++++And not even the resident psychiatrist who had examined me after the...
FOR SALE

FOR SALE

by | Jan 9, 2018 | S, Short Story, Steve Foreman

The hatch cover; a square of white-painted plywood that gave access to the attic, was normally set snugly into its frame in the ceiling above the hallway landing, but this morning, on her way from the bedroom, Julia saw that it was lifted in one corner and slightly...