by Maudie Bryant | Mar 3, 2025 | Fiction
A box fan droned as it held the window ajar, welcoming the stifling air that permeated my cluttered bedroom. I wrestled the temptation of sleep, sinking further into the embrace of musky pillows. With a groan, I reached out to quiet the insistent alarm. Its plastic...
by James B. Nicola | Mar 3, 2025 | Non-Fiction
Why do you use the euphemisms insurrection and riot and avoid the more informative (while equally accurate) term lynch mob? Can’t you drop the mask and say what’s what? There was not only a noose but also an express, stated goal of who was to be lynched....
by Zan Miller | Mar 3, 2025 | Non-Fiction
Red pieces pepper from my son’s scissors, staining the white linoleum kitchen floor. Somewhere in the multiverse, the red isn’t paper. I imagine them as fish scales in this universe, autumn leaves in another, warning flags or trail markers or flower petals or blood...
by Steven C. Wright | Mar 3, 2025 | Non-Fiction
Just like old times, I’m pitter-pattering at the Johnson Learning Center at Middlesex College on a Monday afternoon. I’m heading for a small box of free pencils, so I can work on this print-out crossword puzzle that the college leaves copies of for bored students....
by Jayde Reid | Mar 2, 2025 | Fiction
Today while driving the tractor, I saw a helicopter go by overhead. It had a rope ladder dangling from it. Does every helicopter come with one of them? The way it hung made it seem arbitrary. Like a sweatshirt sleeve pinched in a car door. I did that once with my...
