Safe House
Bruce Petronio Safe House “God Doesn’t Rhyme Siblings” The youngest sibling of three is sixty-year-old Jane. Though christened Jane and not Giovanna, she is heart & soul Italiana. She has never resided outside Syracuse’s Little Italy; she grew up speaking…
Fish Hook Moon
Lara Chamoun Fish Hook Moon It …I had been breathing for at least a few years before the day I was born the day I was born was the day it was born when I stepped into a…
Prayer
m.e. gamlem Prayer They burst out the front door in frenzy, not unlike the fireflies that would soon surround them. Three little girls, six, seven and eight, all with blonde hair and bare feet. When they would return, just before…
Unseen Children
Franz Jørgen Neumann Unseen Children Penny pats the trail marker on the other side of the stream. “Only a mile to the cave,” she calls to the kids. “No laggards!” Tom doesn’t turn around, the turbid water threshed by the…
Ethan Welcomes Back the World
Derek Updegraff Ethan Welcomes Back the World Part 1: Enter Ethan. Enter Chris. They’re in the Laundromat now, brightness glaring down on them from fluorescent bulbs lining the ceiling, machines humming as they drown clothes in soapy water or…
