Submitted Short Stories
by J.G. Oblivious art by Josh Chambers There I was. Nineteen, tanned, clean-shaven; business casual. Standing in the hallway of the top floor of a strange hotel, just after midnight in Dubai; pushing the elevator button relentlessly in an effort to speed up my not-so-swift retreat. Flight to Kandahar in […]
By James Markby So there I was a young man reeling from the stench of partially digested moldy marijuana porridge that my companion in experimentational debauchary belched from his foaming green lips. Had I been of sound mind I would have thought, “What series of decisions led me to this point […]
read chapters 1-3 by Saira Viola art by Brendan Burrow Crack Apple & Pop Chapter 4 Enter: March Aloysius Clarence a Jamaican Elder, an original Yardie gangster, now CEO and Operations Director of one of the most feared criminal enterprises in South London. Don March was a boom boom shake […]
By Barry Finnerty art by Josh Chambers WARNING: CONTAINS AT LEAST 20% ACTUAL REALITY. RIFF 1 Oily odors are oozing from the baked black streets. Darkness is descending over the pulsating concrete and steel beehive like a shroud. For the next ten hours the illumination of all things will come […]
art by Brendan Burrow by Saira Viola CRACK APPLE & POP “Superman don’t need no seat belt.” – Muhammad Ali Chapter 1 The gut wrenching screech of a siren: emergency lights and a swerve of brakes. An ambulance pulls up on the West side of the street opposite a Shell garage. […]
By Karene Horst, contributing editor – As a child I would daydream and fidget every Sunday morning while sitting, kneeling or standing in the pew at St. Monica’s with Mother and my five brothers. Mother would cradle the youngest in the crook of one arm while swatting and grabbing at […]
By Saira Viola Nikki was a five and dime hustler. She had a fake-bake glow, red fish lips, and the kind of hips that can straddle a 6 foot mobster on ice. Her dreams stapled with 20 dollar bills and those cheap throwaway thrills a man gets when he feels […]
By Cody S. Decker Batten down the hatches, folks. Lock up your kids and run to the store. Buy all the milk, eggs, and bread that you can snatch off the shelves or swipe from the scooter-buggy haulin’ around the old lady that ain’t fast enough to catch up to […]
By Finley Daniels “Seriously? You guys are here on vacation?!” – some Spanish dude in the barrios of Malaga It was 5AM when my alarm started its ghastly ringing. I was about to smash my phone against the wall and go back to sleep when I realized what day it […]
By Donnie Casto II Many people would surely be able to sympathize with the change of fortune that life had brought to Thomas Barnes. Fewer, it seemed, would genuinely be able to empathize with it. A series of grave and unfortunate events found him recently taking on the task he […]
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