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Interview: Simon Rose

February 15, 2010

We are pleased to have had the pleasure to sit down with renowned children’s book author Simon Rose. You can learn more about Simon and his books at his website. We urge all of our readers to stop by and pay him a visit.
What first inspired you to write?
One of the best things about writing [...]

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The Dog

February 15, 2010

by J Westlake
We’d eaten the dog.
There hadn’t been much meat on it, and it was a small thing anyway – a terrier. Starving, too. You could see the shapes of bones through its skin as it scurried across our path. Ben and Miller had given chase, if you could call it that. I just stood [...]

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The Interment of Fedella

February 15, 2010

by Sylvia Hiven
Fedella was fond of death. It smelled of dust and sweetness.
Even now as she placed her last bouquet in one of the graves in the rock wall, the scent of decaying bodies was all around her. She knelt upon the dirt ground and bent her neck in respect before the resting corpses. Slowly, [...]

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Devil’s Club

February 15, 2010

by S.P. Miskowski
Along this part of the road, a quarter mile from the nearest neighbor, Douglas fir grew in abundance and the broken asphalt gave way in stages to gravel and dirt. There was alder springing up in the gullies, and Western hemlock scattered at the outskirts of the forest.
This was where the boy and [...]

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Symbionts

February 15, 2010

by Kate Kelly
Martin charged up the stairs two at a time, his jaw tensed, teeth gritted together and hands clenched into fists by his side. His anger surged like a tide in full flood and his trainers thumped on the marble steps, and repeated as dull echoes beneath the high ceiling of the faculty building. [...]

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Needle and Thread

February 15, 2010

by Ali Eickholt
Jeff had failed at a great number of things in his life: marriage, fatherhood, work, and sobriety. However, one thing he had more than succeeded at was cappuccino making. Sadly, he lived in a world filled with latte loving yuppies. So much milk and sugary syrups, it was like they [...]

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Whisper

February 15, 2010

by Ilan Lerman
I’ve got something to tell you, friend.
Come closer. I have to whisper it in your ear.
It’s a secret.
* * *
Jordan snapped the red flag down and started the meter. The fare pulled the taxi door shut, rocking the whole cab as he sat down. The meter chattered and whirred like a clockwork insect.
It [...]

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The Light That Leads to Darkness

February 15, 2010

by Donald Lunsford
The sickness woke him. Silver sharp bells rang in his ears. Pain rolled over his skin like heated burlap scraping and plucking as it went. His nurse, Huko, ran in plunging his hypo-syringe into the spider web of IV bags hanging beside the bed. He pressed a button on one of the [...]

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Catching Back Up

February 15, 2010

by Philip Roberts
Even in the depths of summer, Warren never wore short sleeves, but the prospect of the sale made him forget, and he rolled up his sleeves without thought.
Thankfully the client didn’t see a thing, too lost in paperwork and future planning to notice, but Blake, Warren’s boss, wasn’t quite as distracted, and called [...]

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What Drives You?

February 15, 2010

by Keith Sutherland
On August 21, 2017 and again on April 8, 2024 the small
town of Kelso, Missouri will be in the path of totality of a solar
eclipse.
August 21, 2017:
“Do you miss your mother, Darryl?”
“I guess,” he replied.
“You’re okay with her not being around?”
He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. “I have you, Dad.”
Standing [...]

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The Groundskeeper

February 15, 2010

by David Siegel Bernstein
What a waste of time. Raymond Ames yawned and tossed his history book onto the polished mahogany desk. He didn’t need to memorize all this stuff about the founding of White America. It wasn’t like it was going to help him at anything. He rose from the well-worn leather chair and strolled to [...]

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Symmetry

February 15, 2010

by Michael P. Dunn
He was known simply as the Conductor. No other name was better suited, nor was another name needed.
He had a name, a formal name by which others knew him. Knew him and avoided him. A solitary figure for most of his life, he never cared what others thought of [...]

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