Ascension

“Mall’s closed, kid,” Rob said, purposely towering over the preteen in the most menacing way he could. The girl’s eyes traveled from the scuffed black shoes up his skinny legs…

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The American Devil

“I've never seen a creature like this!”  Professor Siegfried Engel examined the drawing and struggled to make sense of the nightmare rendered in sharp pencil strokes and streaks of jet-black…

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Kafkaesque

The fly had no head.  The man was enjoying an after-work whiskey when he first noticed it, buzzing frantically against the picture window displaying the final strains of daylight streaked…

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Trail Name : Pollock

The sweat sliding into his eyes burned less than the sun beating down overhead, but was a reminder, nonetheless, of the harsh conditions on the Appalachian Trail in the heat…

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Stewartsville Seniors Forever

“I mean, they’re all just stories, right?” I swirled the plastic straw in my soda, the sound of the ice clinking together lost in the conversation and laughter around us.…

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Looking Up

At 2 pm, on a searing hot Sunday in July, Kealan stood on the juncture of 59th and 5th and took refuge under the thick branches of a Museum Mile…

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