Month: June 2012

My mother was doing that thing she did. That thing with the rag in the sink. She wrung it out, twisting it until it made a tight spiral. She shook it out and twisted it again, then she did it… Continue Reading →

This winter, in the year 1922, Amur grass smells of iron. Do not believe those who say otherwise – they never breathed the posthumous aridness of the cold reeds. In the mornings I breathe Siberian cold sky and imagine the… Continue Reading →

Jack followed his two brothers along the top of the cliff toward the Temple, wishing Anselm would stop nudging him toward the edge.   The three primitive lemmings were on their way to the Temple for a festival called “Survival… Continue Reading →

Listen to “Fuchsia” by Stephen V. Ramey, read by Folly Blaine: [display_podcast] Stephen V. Ramey has been published on Strange Horizons and PodCastle as well as in Triangulation: Taking Flight. He lives and writes in New Castle, PA USA, where… Continue Reading →

They hadn’t planned to live in the apartment long, but Justin and Kari couldn’t afford to leave. The couple often discussed moving away from the city, near a beach. They bought lottery tickets and looked for opportunities, reasons to leave… Continue Reading →

When I’m good, Mama says it’s because I come from fine stock, that my birth mother’s a college graduate. When I’m bad, Mama says it’s all because my mother’s crazy and my daddy’s a drunk. So which one is it,… Continue Reading →

Listen to “Raptured” by Ted Lietz, read by the author: [display_podcast] Ted Lietz is a freelance writer and reformed marketer. You can find other stories of his at Every Day Fiction and elsewhere on the web. Everyone has to be… Continue Reading →

The boy dreaded bath time till his mother came up with the brilliant scheme of linking that loathsome ritual with the telling of fanciful stories, hoping, thereby, to lead him by sleight of hand to the virtues of cleanliness. His… Continue Reading →