Giant Step – By Eric Morlock
"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...
Hsi-wei and Matchmaking – By Robert Wexelblatt
It was Lady Bao’s third visit to the retired sandal maker and poet, Chen Hsi-wei. The first came after the end of the official...
The Beast (the story of God) – By David Halliday
I am not an algorithm, not a computer program, not coding. I am a vessel of stories. I hear the children laughing. I hear...
Sentimental Men – By Dennis Vannatta
On the night of the long hard day when their son, Jason, abandoned by his wife, returned home with his two sons, Peggy Gorey...
Pipe Dream – By Tamizh Ponni
The last time Atul listened to Bill Withers’s “Lovely Day” could have easily been 20 years ago. Mirror balls adorning the well-lit fresh Christmas...
The Death of Joe Hill, the Immortal – By Dennis Vannatta
I’m tired—this night of restless dreams. I’d pray to the God of Sleep to give me peace, but what if I summoned up Death...
So Many of Us – By Margaret Irish
They were tiny, two-pronged, lying brown or green in the soil or moss. Sometimes they edged a stone a fraction forward to trip walkers...
A Notary Public – By Jonathan B. Ferrini
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...
