I’ve lived. Survived the terrible twos, endured teenage angst, and trudged through mountains of adulthood.
When people from the past and future begin appearing around town, the residents learn that every encounter is brief – and that knowing more is not always the same as ...
She forgot something—was it a grocery item or her old life?
Picture credit: Anders Nord
An hour and a half in, and so far, Monday night pints with his brother were going better than Tony Phelan had expected. It was ...
ADDER
I felt the bite in the region of Staple Oak Fell. Searing pain flooded the muscle of my left calf. Looking down, I could see the black-and-silver tail ...
Image by Travis Zimmerman from Pixabay
January 2020. We were preparing for a new semester, a doomed semester, but we didn’t know it yet. On the third floor ...
On reading the rocks and understanding time
Compulsion and loneliness drive a woman to search for family on television.
A woman wearing a tinfoil mask held a sword that skewered five kids’ decapitated heads. “He got it right, Fourth Place.”
Having spent my entire life in a classroom, I finally graduated from university in 2015.
A powerful satire that makes you wonder if we are asking the right questions.
The sailor’s question had re-framed reality, for one moment: to him, what we had in common: nationality, religion, age, attitude, was more important, by far, than the one difference in ...
Russell Myrie returns with his monthly round-up of satirical news.
People think us taxi drivers have to take them where they want. We don’t. The road is our friend. It won’t tell. It’s good at keeping secrets. Some people think ...
Suburban mothers unite against Miley.
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet?”
According to an article in the New Yorker – and rather awkwardly ...
Paweł Huelle tells the absorbing story of his family through their cars in the very witty Mercedes-Benz.
The woman was antsy. A relatively new thing for her, and alien, but she identified it as a certain sort of worry which was like new skin, making her fidget.
Sometimes, ...
He smiles nervously, looking down the lens of the camera and seeing the darkness winking back. It reminds him of the event horizons he’s never seen.
‘Of all your work, ...