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Category: Fiction

Fiction

Bank Run ~ Lawrence Coates

Posted on November 4, 2019

  This happened in 1899, when the century was about to turn, twenty-five years after the city of Forge was incorporated and named after its founder and fir...

Fiction

Mothering ~ Gary Fincke

Posted on November 4, 2019

1 The morning after, the Sunday newspaper calls me “a friend who stopped by to check on the recent stroke victim.” Not the half of it, not even ten per cent, le...

Fiction

Controlled Descent ~ Spencer Fleury

Posted on November 4, 2019

  Time: 1917 hours Altitude: 34,100 ft Speed: 480 mph Position: Somewhere over Nebraska Cynthia would do bodily harm to a stranger for an ice-cold Coke jus...

Fiction

The Walleye Capital of the World ~ K.C. Frederick

Posted on November 4, 2019

Maddie and I were getting ready to grill a couple of trout in her backyard.  The evening sun lit the tops of the rounded foothills of the Berkshires, there...

Fiction

Change Agent ~ J. Malcolm Garcia

Posted on November 4, 2019

Two men lean against the side of a pickup and consider the distant figure ahead of them. He stands in the middle of the road and appears to be wearing a turban ...

Fiction

Copper Ridge ~ Pam Houston

Posted on November 4, 2019

Charlie stood on the bank of the Rio Grande looking across at the island where, most years, he collected the downed cottonwoods to round out his wood supply for...

Fiction

Joyriding ~ Mark Jenkins

Posted on November 4, 2019

The car roared into Paul’s rearview mirror like the past. Cruised up fast as if it were actually going to hit his bumper, then backed off just a few feet.  ...

Fiction

from Save Me a Place, a novel ~ Bret Lott

Posted on November 4, 2019

He was closer this time. He knew it. He stood again in the wheat field, gold beneath the summer sun. From here Annam could see the tallest cypress at the far ed...

Fiction

The Women at Coral Villas ~ Valerie Miner

Posted on November 4, 2019

“The letter was astonishing, but so were the whole four days,” Lorna writes to her friend Tracy in London. “We were the most unlikely traveling companions, thre...

Fiction

A Sunday in Spandau ~ N.S. Morris

Posted on November 4, 2019

Nora braces against a damp chill and a dusting of snow as she heads out of her Neukölln low rise to interview Georg Weiss. Weiss is the fourth entry on her cont...

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