Fiction

Issue 37 A Good Life
Peer Review

by Kristen Swan Morrison.
“There’s an infiltration in the group. I sense it. I see it a mile away.”

Girls, at Play

by Celeste Ng.
“This is how we play the game: pink means kissing; red means tongue.”

Issue 15 Abilities and Disabilities
Your Quiet Affair

by Christine Caya.
“Your affair with Connie Gervais starts the way you imagine most do.”

Issue 7
The Plagiarist

By Hollis Seamon.
“’Why?’ Althea leaned toward the splotchy-pale student who sat in her small office chair, his wide khaki thighs overflowing its seat.”

Issue 14 2008 Prize Winners
A Vehicular Situation

by Maija Stromberg.
“’Well, here’s the good Dr. Kaspar stuck out in a field in the middle of nowhere,’ LeeAnn said.”

Issue 9
The Great Imitator

by Leslie Patterson.
“I am a disease. My very existence poisons my father’s life.”

Issue 9
The Levitron

by Robert Oldshue.
“Let me tell you one thing: these know-it-alls who come around hawking computerized this and that to make Shady Rest work like the Holiday Inn have never worked in a nursing home.”

Issue 1
Parricide 

by Steve Fayer.
“My father killed his mother, confessed it to me in his last year as the black dog of depression chased him toward his own grave.”

White Space

by Amanda McComick.
“She had an endless appetite for information, and even though it was just a million different angles on the same collapsing towers, she filed away the details, she hungered for information.”