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Three parables

by Seamus Sweeney

[ may 09 ]

The administrator, the statistician and the psychiatrist.

Performance piece

by Jim Chaffee

[ may 09 ]

"The particulars of the crimes held my attention, though the methods seemed uninspired and the rationale sadly predictable."

Going gone

by Barry Jay Kaplan

[ may 09 ]

"Other than that hot squirmy feeling of being noticed, Ruth felt fine; felt, that is, nothing."

The legend of the line of Lazare

by Ronald J Stone

[ may 09 ]

A message in a bottle.

Chasing butterflies

by Dave Lordan

[ may 09 ]

"The prospect of there being more pleasure elsewhere than there is in my bed is the only thing that ever gets me out of it. Luckily, I am a writer."

Suspicious minds

by Alan McCormick

[ may 09 ]

"I'm getting the name Mabel, no, Mavis. Thank you, Bear Tongue. He would like us to meet Mavis. Does the name Mavis mean anything to anyone?"

Perfect night for leeches

by Jim Chaffee

[ april 09 ]

"We stabilized the poor bastards, got them out of triage and off to surgery. All the time carefully collecting the leaches we’d picked off them, for later."

Limbo

by Harry Reynolds

[ april 09 ]

"They say the Vatican is abolishing limbo. The baby souls go straight to heaven, Harry."