• Just Remains

    Just Remains

    By Mary Anne White “Anyone here – I mean besides the dead bodies?” “Yes, I’m in the back,” Jerry replied. “Be right out.”

  • Ibiza Pool Parties Are Dead Without Viagra

    Ibiza Pool Parties Are Dead Without Viagra

    By Paul Nelson Drugs, alcohol, and viagra. No one expects viagra when Callum spins his Four Days in Ibiza tales to his oldest friends in the beer garden of The Red Lion on a lazy Sunday afternoon, talking of VIP rooms in clubs his boys’ll forget the names of because they’re all family men now,…

  • Scraped Knees Are a Sign of Childhood

    Scraped Knees Are a Sign of Childhood

    By Jaclyn Port CW: reference to sex and suicide Juliet is the best Shakespeare dead girl. Stabbing yourself to death shows commitment and initiative. And she did it out of love, which is how we swear to do it if the opportunity presents itself. Ophelia is the second best. Drowning off-stage is a bit passive…

  • If I Could Play Guitar

    If I Could Play Guitar

    By Saul Janiak Stein I wish it wasn’t too late To start playing the guitar

  • Style and Voice

    By John Oyewale If your style and voice are original, your writing will find a worthy home among the roughly three million books published per year in the US alone.

  • Piecing Her Together

    Piecing Her Together

    By Rebecca Klassen When Kelsie was born, Mike had held her waxy cheek against his bare chest by his heart, just like the woman running the antenatal class had shown him with a plastic doll. He likes instructions. Without the classes, he was sure he’d have held Kelsie at arm’s length while they both screamed.