The Companion Jeff Frawley Her father was hospitalized for a problem of the heart. Elsa visited, found him snoring, stomach rising beneath the sheets. Within half a year he’d be dead, cardiac arrest, discovered in his efficiency above the Bent Nail. Unsure what to do, she laid a hand across his forehead. She hadn’t seen…
Landslide Colin Bennett I have to work on my second novel today. It’s been a month or two, at least, since I picked it up. The first novel, a semi-autobiographical number about growing up in the Milwaukee suburbs, goes over well enough. But it’s not paying any bills. Still, being published makes me something of…
The Fog Museum Alexander Danner The sign posted to the door read, “Drive Slowly: Hazardous Conditions,” which was true as far as it went. Had Benny driven her car into the museum, hazards could not have failed to present themselves, most obviously her own car barreling across the lobby to smash through the lucite donation…
The Ashtray Beth Weeks The munch wasn’t anything like Cody had expected. For one, he didn’t think a casual gathering of BDSM enthusiasts would take place at an Olive Garden. Two, he hadn’t expected to leave the meal with a recommendation for a professional sadist. A woman named Rosa gave him a phone number, saying,…
Skaters Ben Rosenthal The light was hurting from up there. Dom Moore and Cameron Glover, watching the Swede’s pelvis swing as she unlatched her motel door, wondered about the whereabouts of Roddy Villemeure. Glover a little more than his friend Dom, who was preoccupied by the lady as she turned the latch. Her factual motion…
