Listen to “The Promise” by Warren C. Easley, read by Izzy David: [display_podcast] Warren C. Easley lives in Oregon, where he writes fiction and tutors GED students. He’s the author of the Cal Claxton Mystery Series: learn more at www.WarrenEasley.com.… Continue Reading
April, 1945. We were patrolling the countryside outside Leipzig, looking for stray German units retreating from the city. I was standing nearby when Molina, one of our scouts, came running to report to Captain Munhall. In a village down the… Continue Reading
Gunny Sergeant Jack Jeffreys shifted in the metal folding chair, holding in a fart. Checked his watch. It’d only been twenty minutes. Two short performances and already he itched for a smoke. He sat with his arms folded, trying not… Continue Reading
Snow whirled in soft lazy circles. Marya no longer felt the cold. She walked on, hunched over, a man’s thick black coat clutched to her chest. Beneath the coat, Elena lay strapped against Marya’s torso. Weeks of hunger had rendered… Continue Reading
“Hello, brother,” Celia said to the man in the cage. Marc turned toward her in the dark. His movement set the cage swinging on its pole, six feet off the ground in the main square. The cage was meant to… Continue Reading
That red-headed kid there, coming into my wing of the museum, he looks like an obliging young man, eager like Rezin was. How malleable is he, though? He loiters before the rifle case. A good sign, but, Kid, rifles are… Continue Reading
Nick finished the magic chant for a new body and face. He liked the body and face: a sharper chin, darker eyes. But the hair was too long. Another chant and it shortened, just the right length to look wild… Continue Reading
“The migration of the future is migration to the future!” the advertising slogans cheerfully ran, assaulting people from bright and colourful holo-posters, blaring from radios and televisions, and finding a variety of innovative ways to annoy folks who just wanted… Continue Reading
Listen to “Lolita’s Lynch Mob” by Sarah Hilary, read by M.Sherlock: [display_podcast] Sarah Hilary won the Sense Creative Award in 2010, and the Fish Criminally Short Histories Prize in 2008. Her fiction appears in The Fish Anthology, Smokelong Quarterly, and… Continue Reading
I always felt stupid around Ron, but for a long time I didn’t know it was stupid. I thought it was love. When Ron and I met we were both eighteen and freshmen. The meeting was the first mistake, I… Continue Reading