Of naked women of rooftops.
Fiction
The Heart of Sports: ‘The Way You Play Baseball Has Nothing To Do With How Good a Person You Are’
"Dear Mister Davis: I'm Henry Frasca, a 9-year old kid and die-hard Red Sox fan. There are two things I want you to know."
“Dear Mister Davis: I’m Henry Frasca, a 9-year old kid and die-hard Red Sox fan. There are two things I want you to know.”
Yosemite
Inconsolable
A story of a father navigating his daughter’s grief over her pet and his own grief over his marriage.
Paradise Waiting
“The last thing Salim Khan saw in his brief life was a millisecond of a blinding flash of light and a loud bang as he detonated the four pounds of plastique in his backpack.” Fiction by Steve Jaeger.
Excerpt from RE JANE
For Jane Re, a half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life.
The Smiling Skeptic: An Excerpt from THE MIRACLE GIRL
“These things can be explained: the weeping icons, the bleeding statues, the healing of disease, the aberrations of sun and sky and light, the apparitions of Jesus and Mary and Springsteen.” By Andrew Roe
The Lion in the Hills
“There was nothing left for us to do, and a lot of us simply fell apart.” By William Black
Review of Franklin Sports Junior Equipment Bag (Black)
“Conditions that worked for my kid won’t be the same for yours, etc.” By Evan Lavender-Smith
Punch for Punch
“When a man asks you to break his nose you don’t have much choice in the matter.” By Jared Yates Sexton
Excerpt from THE KEPT
“Elspeth Howell was a sinner.” By James Scott
Excerpt from FRAM, by Steve Himmer
“He was lucky, he knew: Julia didn’t mind his magazines or at least she didn’t complain.” By Steve Himmer
Mud Boy, Blood Boy: A Brothers’ Tale
In this flash fiction from The Roadkill Collection, two brothers with an absent dad grow in distinct ways.
Butterfly, Brick: A Garden Fairy Tale
When it comes to quarreling, men and women can be entirely different landscape elements.
Bitter Root: A Story of Marriage and Borsch
In this story from The Roadkill Collection, food can make or mar a marriage.
The Roadkill Collector
In the title story from The Roadkill Collection, a once–bullying lawyer seeks redemption in the road.