Fiction Pick of the Week: "And It Goes Running"
The summer of a teenage werewolf.
The summer of a teenage werewolf.
Caroline Diorio Joyland Magazine Jul 2020 15min Permalink
Three teenagers, their futures, the concept of alternate realities.
Robert James Russell Little Fiction Nov 2017 10min Permalink
A young boy, a pack of cigarettes, a looming summer.
"But he had found them. They were his, and he was going to smoke one or maybe three or four if that’s what he decided. And plus by himself, as in totally alone. And no one could stop him, no one, for that matter, would even know. He looked around again and saw the same—lazy cars and robins, the willow with its doves, an old man down the street, that was it, and sun and sky and breeze."
D. Foy Nailed Magazine Apr 2015 10min Permalink
A tale of small town love and loss; a summer tale for the last official weekend of summer.
"Do you love her? Those things are kind of hard to know. For me, anyway. My mom died when I was four and my dad never met anyone else, at least, not anyone that made him want to try again. I never got to watch him love, and so it feels like that part of me is broken. I know how to ride a bike, how to fry an egg sunnyside-up, how to thread a worm on a hook, but I don’t know when someone says I love you if they mean it or if they just want me to lie back in the grass and hike up my skirt."
Amanda Miska Pea River Journal Aug 2014 10min Permalink