by Ryan Sparks

I woke up to news reports but somehow didn’t understand them until I’d come back from the shower. The force of the fuselage of a giant airplane knocking out major support beams and the ensuing explosion had caused a building to fall. Odd. Then the same thing happened again. Then I knew. We were all fucked. (read on…)

by Gabriella Herkert‘At least tell me why. I deserve that much.’

‘Over is over, Ron.’ Liza folded her favorite red silk blouse and put it into the suitcase. The bedroom closet was still full of crisp white blouses and tailored slacks. She closed the half-full suitcase with a snap.

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by Monette Bebow-Reinhard

If you have an article or complete novel out there being read by someone in the magazine or publishing world and it’s been months and you don’t know if they still have it or sent it back or burned it or are laughing themselves silly about it over martinis at one of those sushi bars so you decide to send one of those polite little letters to ask about its status because you’ve been told it’s an okay thing to do ‘ I’ve just got one word of advice.

Don’t.
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by Bobby Goldsmith

For Ray Younessi, life had all but lost its sense of wonder. Only the occasional inconsistency of time still held the power to make him marvel at life’s possibilities. Even if, for him, those possibilities lay buried in bygone years, only to manifest themselves in the abstracted, tortured cataracts that haunted him, teased and flirted with him somewhere between fading dreams and placid reality.
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by Susan Jane

Caris, you idiot. How many times did I tell you that it would kill you?
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