Browsing Category Fiction

  • Fiction

    Empty Summer Houses

    Stalking empty summer houses in Truro and Wellfleet was getting too strange. Today, he’d promised himself, was the last time ...

    On April 4, 2015 / By
  • Leaf in Pool by Kim Manley Ort
    Fiction

    By the Pool

    Autumn was near over – not that it mattered. In the dull heat Lady let her feet swirl in the pool, sucking her red popsicle, waiting for something ...

    On March 9, 2015 / By
  • Twins of Evil of Paul
    Fiction

    Cowardice

    My thin, barren aunt had twins. God was working through her; God, with his sick sense of humor. They came out of her like fiends in a horror ...

    On March 7, 2015 / By
  • Fiction

    Keepers

    I know that on good nights they’ll drink a decent bottle of wine or two and sit on their kitchen counters and play Catchphrase. They’ll yell at each ...

    On December 26, 2014 / By
  • Fiction 0

    Five-Finger Discount

    It was a hot day and they drove out along the Ottauquechee, the two of them sitting up on the pollen-yellow roof of the Volvo with their legs ...

    On December 7, 2014 / By
  • Fiction

    X-ray

    It wasn’t until Claire Sinkler had hung up her coat, checked in with the receptionist, sat down with only a slight twinge in her knees, and settled herself ...

    On November 22, 2014 / By
  • Fiction

    The Memorialist

    The heart-shaped pink granite headstone he had picked up south of Boston made it hard for Alex to sidle his pickup truck into a parking spot near his ...

    On November 9, 2014 / By
  • Fiction

    Temptation’s Crush

    It’s nearly 6:00 p.m., six hours before my thirtieth birthday. I’ve been running on the treadmill for about thirty-five minutes, having arrived here from school, grad school that ...

    On October 31, 2014 / By