The Magic Mile We lived at the end of the magic mile, bordering a dense forest of trees; if you ended up at the Sizzler, you’d gone too far. Lansdowne …
Daddy and Arnold (Charles Bane, Jr.)
I can tell you this because my father’s gone. I was lawyering in Chicago when I got a phone call that my Dad was dying. The caller told me that …
Our Lady Godiva (Laura McPhee-Browne)
I was the kind of kid who made it hard for people to like me. That’s what my dad always said, to my face in front of any old person …
Two Ducks (Daniel Young)
We sat at a picnic table, enjoying the morning sunlight, holding hands tentatively, ready to draw them apart if somebody passed by. A clear mountain stream flowed past us over …
‘From What I’ve Read So Far Of Yours, It Sounds Like Every Man In Macedonia Hit On You.’
Don’t get me started about the Macedonian Poetry Festival. Put it this way. If it’s a sex fest that you want, and you look like you might be a woman, …
Vigil (John Clanchy)
There had been a moon earlier on. A scimitar moon, Pete Davis had once heard it called. A curved blade of white light on a bed of black velvet. Black …
Stomp (Libbie Chellew)
I wish I didn’t have a hole. It seems extreme, I know. But I can’t seem to get the idea out of my head. Life would be easier without a …
A flash flood of hailstones (Tom Doig)
I woke up with an icepick headache. It felt like an alcoholic horse had pissed in my mouth. I lay in my sleeping bag trying not to retch, struggling to …
What everyone said (Fikret Pajalic)
My next-door neighbour on the left moved out one day. I didn’t know when and I didn’t see him leave. He just left. Vanished. He was a quiet, stooped fellow …
He auditioned for Romeo (Tarion Keelan)
My life was becoming more and more real in this new world that I had found for myself, and some days even passed without me thinking of David. But when …