The Novice by Kathleen J. Woods So that she could not delete her post naming the bad, dead priest, Sister Dolores tucked her phone beneath her pillow then snuck the convent car through the midnight suburbs, curving cul-de-sac to roundabout until she found herself on...
The King in Black by Emily Lautch My bike creaks to a halt under the ruddy pink window that belongs to Danica, an equally ruddy-faced and absolutely beautiful Czech woman who is making funny animal noises from inside the house to welcome me. I’ve stopped under her...
The Bicycle Club by Martin Golan When my parents retired to Florida back in the ‘70s, my father fulfilled a lifelong dream: he learned to ride a bicycle. It thrilled him, being of a generation for whom bicycles were a luxury, the province of uptown rich kids. With a...
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...
White Belief by Uyen Phuong Dang After the war, the government started a campaign to number all the trees in the city. Let the future be as bounteous as the trees, it said. Then a few disappeared. One was found inside Baba’s rice bowl. It had small red lights for eyes...
Sermon on the Rocks by Vicki Nyman It always began when Mommy suddenly stood, her upper-middle-aged body rising from the sofa to hover above me, distant as the ceiling of a Gothic cathedral. The nave we called our living room would be rocked by seismic forces: the...
