(Edited by Omar J. Sakr) Mother died today. I got an email. It said, mother passed away funeral tomorrow yours. I thought: Mine? Am I dead too? So here I …
In the Beginning was the Word (Joe Nuttall)
When I was about twelve, I went through a brief but intense love affair with particular words. I used to write them, over and over, in different ways, different colours. …
Darlinghurst Nights (Meera Atkinson)
The nights grew hotter and the air faintly sugary. Luna sensed a man just out of range. She waited. And while she waited, she read books from the library, sometimes …
Bo Peep (Rob Walker)
(Edited by Omar J. Sakr) Bo Peep lit the end of the hand-made cigarette in her left hand. Her vermilion cupid-bow lips sucked heavily on the lumpy paper tube. Loose …
Efficiency (Chelsea Avard)
Edited by Omar J. Sakr Monday. Eleven PM. Time to sleep. Today has gone well. As close to perfect as any flawed day can go. And all the days are …
The Anchoress (Robyn Cadwallader)
I had always wanted to be a jongleur, to leap from the shoulders of another, to fly and tumble, to dare myself in thin air with nothing but my arms …
The Family Files (Rebecca Jessen)
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 …