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Originally posted on Jellyfish Review: When She Met Him She was fifteen when she met him. She was born, red-faced screaming into this world, when she met him. She could hardly breathe when she met him. She was seven, she was fifty-four, she was seventy-two when she met him. She was a wife and a…
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She was fifteen when she met him. She was born, red-faced screaming into this world, when she met him. She could hardly breathe when she met him. She was seven, she was fifty-four, she was seventy-two when she met him… When She Met Him Published at Jellyfish Review Related Reading: Two Women Meeting by Sutton…
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Originally posted on JMWW: I wish I had a flashlight but that would be against the rules. The long gravel drive is over run by tree roots, riddled with dips and bumps. It winds deep into the woods. We find the abandoned church with the broken sign out front. It reads, “Saint Florian’s Slovak Catholic…
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I wish I had a flashlight but that would be against the rules. The long gravel drive is over run by tree roots, riddled with dips and bumps. It winds deep into the woods. We find the abandoned church with the broken sign out front. It reads, “Saint Florian’s Slovak Catholic Church. We_come.” I take…
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Thank you to Scott Garson, editor at Wigleaf for publishing A Change in Latitude and to Mythic Picnic for his kind patronage. This means a lot to me. Congratulations to all of the finalists and my fellow shortlisters! If you enjoyed my story, please go back and read theirs, as well. This is an amazing class…
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I see a blur of red bobbing in the horizon. I’m sitting, alone, in a life raft in the middle of the ocean. Supplies are dangerously low. How hard is it to catch a sea gull? Can you eat a sea gull? I’ve read people drink their own urine in survival situations. I haven’t peed…
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I meet a god on the F train on the way to the doctor’s office. Not an important god; a lesser deity. I won’t say which one but he’s well known for his love of westerly winds and acting like a jealous fool…. Gods of the F Train published at Devilfish Review. Related…
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The best home safety fire escape ladder, it says on the back of the box, is portable and easy to maneuver. The box is surprisingly light with a lid designed for easy flipping. On the front is a picture of a little boy in blue-and-white rocket pajamas, descending a nylon ladder from a fully engulfed window.…
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David Leavitt is the prolific author of several short story collections such as Family Dancing for which he was finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. He’s written numerous novels. While England Sleeps was a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize and The Indian Clerk was not just…
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Men Stop Me Running published at Catapult | 29 | Men yell at me from car windows. My stride is slow and steady. I’m training for the American Tobacco Trail Half Marathon, my first real race. Before now, I’ve never attempted anything over 5k. “Hey!” a man yells and it sounds like he’s falling…
Brianne M. Kohl 