Outside In
Monica didn’t notice the problem with the window over her couch until she looked through it and saw herself walking down the street. The other her was carrying a bag of groceries and looked tired, as...
View ArticleBroommates: Grant’s Tomb
Part 20 of the serial Broommates. Start from the beginning or read the previous episode or click the “Broommates” link at the top of the page to see the full list. * * * * * As bleak as it had been...
View ArticleBroommates: Black Dog
Part 21 of the serial Broommates. Start from the beginning or read the previous episode or click the “Broommates” link at the top of the page to see the full list. * * * * * Kitty, who was outside,...
View ArticleTheology
Amanda and Eydis walked down the hall of the Aletheia Building on the way to their next class. They’d been roommates since freshman year and even though they had different majors, they tried to take at...
View ArticleBroommates: Frying Pan
Part 22 of the serial Broommates. Start from the beginning or read the previous episode or click the “Broommates” link at the top of the page to see the full list. * * * * * Parker was the first to...
View ArticleBroommates: Fire
Part 23 of the serial Broommates. Start from the beginning or read the previous episode or click the “Broommates” link at the top of the page to see the full list. * * * * * The barghest appeared in...
View ArticleI Spy With My Third Eye
Giselle watched the people stream past her in the mall as she sat on a plush armchair, legs crossed. Which one of them was a monster? Was it the bald man sitting at the cafe table in front of the...
View ArticleCuriosity: a fairy tale in two parts
Nestled between the butcher and the baker, across the street from the candlemaker, a shop stood as if hunched in on itself and trying to look inconspicuous. Sera had never seen it before, despite...
View ArticleWaking Beauty
Rory’s eyes fluttered open and her first thought was, “I can’t breathe!” She tried to sit up but succeeded only in hitting her forehead hard against what turned out, upon further examination, to be...
View ArticleThe Pen Is Mightier
Calliope Cervantes walked into her quarry’s store, ducking just in time to avoid a cheap lobotomy from a razor-sharp boomerang. Miles Johnson ran an upscale boutique that sold fancy old-fashioned pens...
View ArticleThe Violet Hour
AFTER the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and place and reverberation Of thunder of spring over...
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