issue 36 > fiction

• The End of the Century

  by Lis Anna-Langston

  Stuart was my favorite roommate.  Once he discovered gin our apartment was a revolving door of busted romantic encounters.

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• Memory

  by Bode Asiyanbi

  Anna da Souza used to say that the problem of man is with his pathetic memory.

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• Worriers

  by Kirk Boys

  One night we were sitting around our kitchen table having drinks.  Outside the weather had taken a turn for the bad.  

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• There Were Six

  by Kalisha Buckhanon

  Message on a flyer taped onto a dollar store entrance door, on Stony Island Avenue, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America, North America:

  MISSING

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• Accumulation

  by Barbara Harroun

  It had snowed all last night, and Elizabeth thinks that bad things happen the way snow falls: silently, accumulating at a fierce rate while you sleep, while your eyes are closed.

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• The Starry Blue

  by Jane Liddle

  “You’ve really seen Methuselah?” Em asked Ricky with disappointment and disbelief. They were in the bedroom.

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• Lauren

  by Charles Rammelkamp

  Was her name Lorraine, Hausman wondered.  Leonora?  Lenore?  Like Poe, “The Raven.”

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• In the Style of Gunter Schmidt

  by Thomas Sanfilip

  I waited in his garden overlooking the glittering expanse of Lake Constance and watched a ferry move over the water through a white mist, creating waves that glistened when the sun dimmed and floated overhead midday in clean, pure light that spread everywhere, running blue and clear beneath the surface, over the shoreline as the boat drew nearer, leaving a sound, white thrush of parting sunlight in its wake.

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• Nothing to Worry About

  by Keith Stahl

  Maybe it’s not a dream. Something’s in the bedroom. It’s flying. Silent.

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