Necessity
by Bruce Meyer
Necessity says I must be careful
as I stand in the tangle of weeds
to place my feet on solid ground
and not on a broken window pane
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Across the Water
By Larry Campbell
So we’re mostly back where we were, including me and my family. My backyard is on the water, though, and Utopia still sits there on the far shore.
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Pebbles
by John Robinson Blackmore
Perfectly smoothed stones dotted the outline of a path into the yard. They were obviously from somewhere beyond the forest.
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Rocks, Bullets, and Scissors
By Callie S. Blackstone
Some people say Dudleytown was founded by a man fleeing England who carried a curse with him on the boat to America.
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The Proof of Love
by Tim Bowling
In the end, it all comes down to one of our world’s most abused and vanishing resources: privacy.
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Minor modifications
by Anthony Purdy
Everything is leaf, he said,
being Goethe;
but being Goethe, the words he said
came out quite different:
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Lucky Man with Three Wives
by Mark Anthony Jarman
“Did you come for something something?” It sounds Asian to my tin ear: sow-jow? “São João! The festa de São João do Porto,” says Avó, a celebration of summer solstice and São João’s feast day. Saint John the Baptist to us.
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Toy Store
by Gerald Arthur Moore
“Harry Bennet lived here
before the toy store;
now he’s over there,” Dad said,
thumbing toward the graveyard.
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Playing for Life
by Peter Unwin
“We’re getting murdered, Dad. We are getting so-oo murdered.” Fifteen minutes earlier my two girls had left the house, heavily armed, on what I took to be a routine search and destroy mission.
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Fishing Report: East Timor
By Henry Hughes
If I had to choose a refrain to best describe the last six months, it would sound like this: I’m a terrible mother.
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