Fiction from Stephen Tuttle
Ransom We paid because what choice did we have? Mom signed the papers on the mortgage and emptied the savings account and collected what she could from family. At the credit union, they turned all that money into a wire transfer and then, zip, it was nothing more than a thin receipt. After that, we […]
Fiction from Tim Goldstone
Photo: Jez Timms The Breakthrough After so long enthusiastically exploring my psychological wreckage in your Californian way, “talking it all out” you loved to say—more sledgehammer than scalpel—you eventually found my black box weeks after you ceased your official excavation; and you’d actually been happier for calling off the search, calm, contented, before accidentally stumbling […]
Fictions from Christine H. Chen
Photo: Fran Jacquier Osteonecrosis Ah Ma’s incessant moaning drove Ba to his grave. I took his place bearing the avalanche of her rants. The price of an onion, the handyman tracking dirt inside the hallway, Ba’s ghost not helping her find her eyeglasses, a squirrel burying nuts in her potted tomato plant. Her tirades slowed […]
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