A gold coin lay on a downtown sidewalk on a steamy summer afternoon. When the crosswalk light turned red, Mary stopped at the corner with her husband, Alan. She noticed a glint on the ground, spotted the coin and picked… Continue Reading
“I’m not using it to tow penguins to the moon,” was all Dave ever said about the contraption he was making in the shed. He was not a talkative chap, Dave. He worked as a surly shop-assistant in McTavish’s fish… Continue Reading
Listen to “The Grim Rufus” by Peter Wood, read by Folly Blaine: [display_podcast] Peter Wood is an attorney in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he lives with his surly cat and patient wife. He has had stories published in Daily… Continue Reading
Professor Cornwall stepped into N.C. State University’s basement physics department lab and stared at Garcia, the discoverer of time travel. Hunched over his work station, the boy genius fiddled with a mobile phone. The faint sound of Day Tripper leaked… Continue Reading
There once was a boy. The fact that there is always a boy, or a girl, or a man, or a woman, or a baobob tree is irrelevant. In this particular case, there was a boy. He was shy, but… Continue Reading
“How are you feeling, Pete? Sure you’re ready for this?” The Pilot stands at the bottom of the metal steps. His smile is welcome, but forced. It serves only to stir up the fluttering wings in my stomach. I look… Continue Reading
Jorge was a contortionist. He could step through himself with the best of them. What he wanted, however, was love, that perfect tension between two people that elevated neither, subjugated neither, and bound them together into a knot that might… Continue Reading
It’s a cold, windy day and I am at the window table trying to write my New Year resolutions. At least that is what I should be doing but I spend more time watching the dry leaves clattering across the… Continue Reading
editorial by Camille Gooderham Campbell From the Editors Happy New Year! May the year ahead be glorious and full of great fiction. Thank you all for your patience last month as we navigated some major technical difficulties. Our appreciation and… Continue Reading
The leaning man — I will not use his real name in this report — suffers an unusual deformation of the ankle-foot joint. Rather than rising straight from the heel, his ankles bend sideways, causing him to list significantly to… Continue Reading