12 by Rose Swartz All her teeth are breaking As he pretends to read her palm the scholars say we can’t trust chance she hates him but chance is more than a force when the hate reaches the vortex...
Fire and Milk by Andrew Rhodes The Civil War was a very frightening event. It was the first ancient modern war of our time, and those involved experienced shortages of foods like milk. Some of the soldiers had nothing to their names but their guns and the...
Arms by Matt Rowan” Everything in the school was normal from the outside. It was normal on the inside, too. There were just a few subtle differences distinguishing it from most schools you’ve probably seen. And one major difference. It’s that they kept...
Little Switzerland by Ian Walters Now Jenny is chanting, not out loud, chanting in her head, chanting for the last half hour. Rain’s all right, rain’s all right. She follows the road up into the cloud and within minutes the dash is muddy and her Dijon-yellow...
I Turned Out Pretty Good by Sean Gill I was thinking about raising a kid, but I figured I’d better try a dog first in case I bungled it so I’d only spoil an animal instead of a human being. I didn’t want to read any books on the matter, because I didn’t want to...
