by Casey Jo Graham Welmers

“We’ll look at the stars every night…We’ll wish on them, because what else can we depend on when all the lights have gone out?”

by J. Agombar

“A voice whispers in your ear as you close your eyes in defeat. ‘No…you…don’t.’”

by Benjamin Drevlow

“When my ex-wife dies, and I promise it won’t be by my hand, I’ll bring her back home and have her stuffed and it won’t be for any sexy stuff…”

by Swetha Amit

“It will take a while for Pa to clean up the mess.  I wait for the storm to arrive.”

by Marcus Silcock

“I do not like to expose my neck to the barber. My head is full of migratory birds, thinks Kato, walking the dust park remembering the lush fish.”

by J.B. Kalf

“I can still smell the cockroaches, hear the crickets on the wall, taste the headlights on the cars. I am part of the hotel ecosystem, along with cleaning ladies and the teenage clerk and this ecosystem known as the hotel..”

by JD Clapp

“I just don’t have it in me to go back. But hell, at least she has Elmo now.”

by Robert L. Penick

“Dad is passed out in the yard again, couldn’t stagger in from where his buddies dropped him at the curb.”

by Jack B. Bedell

“She’s there to get some film on the black-and-gold team’s coach. He’s a defense attorney who’s supposed to have severe disk damage at C3-5 after a fender bender, but you’d never know it from the way he’s laying into his wife behind the dug out…”

by Grove Koger

““To see within, turn your eyes to the horizon.” Even if, it seems, you have no eyes with which to see …”

by David Henson

“We shuffle through our morning routines. Driving to work, we wonder at the kites tangled in the trees.”