Wendy Fox/Fiction

Wendy Fox/Fiction

flickr.com/lucychian  via unsplash.com *** When You Talk About the Weather   by Wendy Fox You and I are at a party somewhere, and first we have to talk about the weather, because we live in Denver, Colorado, where the skyline is unsettled and the temperature...
Susan Taylor Chchak/Fiction

Susan Taylor Chchak/Fiction

Binghamton University Crew photo *** COXSWAIN by Susan Taylor Chehak Do I have a drinking problem? Just wine, mostly. By the bottle. And here at these things I’m at my worst. I teach a class, conduct a conference, show up for the dinner or the lunch or the reading or...
Joe S. Pfister/Fiction

Joe S. Pfister/Fiction

Photo by Eric Draper, Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library President George W. Bush at work clearing brush at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. *** George Bush Saved from Snakebite   by Joe S. Pfister   W on His Ranch Before Laura stirs...
Sam Grieve/Fiction

Sam Grieve/Fiction

Anna Sastre, unsplash *** The Art of Speaking Proper   by Sam Grieve “Litchis, love,” corrects the woman. “You saying it wrong. It’s litchis. The woman makes the first syllable sound like lie, not lee. She has hands the color of cooked lobsters, and the...
Alfredo Franco/Fiction

Alfredo Franco/Fiction

Photo by adrigu TV Dinners   by Alfredo Franco Thomas Black’s father left the family the summer before the Martin Luther King riots, when Thomas was five and they still lived in a real house in Virginia. He remembered the days leading up to his father’s...