Grist
At 6:35 AM, on a Tuesday mid-July, Alberto Salazar woke up. It was not, however, a literal awakening, considering Salazar…
Category: Original Lit
Kerouac Torch
Tom walked in with the bouquet of blazing sacrosanct truths the first sermons he could ever really get behind. he…
Lift-Off
Two flight attendants bobbed down the aisle with gyroscopic grace as our plane taxied off the Pearson runway toward a…
The Layman’s Holiday
Happy Fourth of July, Readers! I hope you’re all enjoying hot dogs and lemonade in bright blue backyard pools, or…
Riding in Mustangs
Rain spatters against my forehead so I yell at Chris to roll his window up. It’s so hot and humid…
Abandoning a Warlord for Dummies
One of the car bombs peeled the lawn, then the smog cleared up Anton stood palmin' a beer mug, molotov…
A Death in the Family
My Mother once told me that all the stars in the night sky were the dead souls of all the…
Snellen Chart
The patient came to the museum of objects caressed the pieces she could not see. The docent supplied words of…
M, Observed
Inspector M’s funeral went just as he’d expected. His former partner, W, remarked on the irony of the circumstances that…
You Killed Me Before
The apartment was small. The living room connected to the kitchen, and the bedroom was a few paces away. As…