The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper by Laurence Klavan This is a story many people secretly know yet rarely tell, for reasons that will become clear. It involves a woman whose name is familiar if you pay attention to theater, show business or the arts, but it’s not gossip, not as gossip...

Little Knives

Little Knives by Dara-Lyn Shrager That bruised fist clenchesagain in my niece’s chest.A surgeon fishes a guide wirethrough her thigh, lightinga path to her stuttering heart. All the little knives will come,will cut her before she’s done. One year ago, doctors slappeda...

The Drowning

The Drowning by Lindsay Rockwell       The Drowning   After the pulling           her blank breath we red-eyed            no grip no       hand to hold after the pulling        a pall          shrouded the beach wind barely sifted the summer heat          shock...

The Only Thing Standing Between Fantasia and Nothingness

The Only Thing Standing Between Fantasia and Nothingness by Zebulon Huset It could’ve been me.I would have been braveand read a book valiantly. I could have saved the realmor at least hidden from bullies in a library,gotten dumped into a dumpster. I could have saved...