Fiction

    And I meet Davison in a burger joint balls-to-the-wall ‘retro’ in a way that is less than impressive. Davison is sitting in a booth...

        "Once you finally make that commitment," he says, "there's such a sense of peace. It's incredible."    The fog has lifted, and the early...

  Translation from the Russian by Alex Ben Zion   Tokyo. 1965. As the years go by I find myself increasingly inclined to disappear into a bustling crowd....

      “Hey fella’s, it’s Mikey checkin’ in. “Anything to know about before I begin watch?” “Just a complaint about noisy bullfrogs out at the lake, Mikey.” “It’s summer...

    Fog settled over the water. At the wharf, men in beach chairs watched. Sometimes they called themselves The Guardians of the Sea. Other times...

    My grandmother, Mildred, was an independent woman and an entrepreneur. As Southern California was growing by leaps and bounds in the fifties, Mildred decided to...

    Though God watched, I was not disturbed by the empyrean witness. On the contrary, I welcomed such an audience for I had faith that...

     In early autumn, when the trees had yet to lose their leaves, when skylarks and pipits were only beginning to migrate south, Chen Hsi-wei...

      Although Krenshaw had broken up with John, she was, nonetheless, heartbroken to discover that less than three weeks later, he had moved on and...

    Belated Love Letters Excerpts from book On the shores of the Khazar Sea by Jasmina Mihajlovic;  each of these memories (letters) begins with a passage from Milorad Pavić’s...