Marlene Olin Little People The mailbox sat on a freshly mowed lawn. Beyond the lawn, a handsome stone path led to a white clapboard house. Dormer windows. A bricked chimney. Neatly clipped hydrangeas hugged the porch while five acres of forest lunged in the rear waiting to be tamed. If you looked closely, as many […]
Category: Winter 2024 Fiction
Chloie Piveral – Feeding You What’s Left
Chloie Piveral Feeding You What’s Left The trash is rank with the smell of decay; full of fluid-soaked chicken wrappers, moldy burger buns, rainbow-colored slick flecks of pungent tuna. My stomach growls, but I’ve lost my appetite. I made a list, fifteen pages long, trying to remember our last meal together. Tuna casserole? Burgers? Moroccan […]
Teresa Milbrodt – Cookies
Teresa Milbrodt Cookies I wasn’t hell bent on saving the world when I became an epidemiologist. I also hadn’t thought the job would involve so many tissues or cookies, but it did during those years when I worked the night shift at the mobile VD clinic. It was little more than a van with a […]
