It is fascinating to see how authors’ voices differ from one another, despite the complaints from well-established editors and authors who see too much of the same thing, all the time. We could be accused of writing exclusively about lives that resemble our own, and yet it is a genre that we need, sort [...]

by M. S. Allen
I’m negative and Lloyd is untested.
This took three dates to establish. I don’t count meeting cute on Second Avenue while I was buying the Sunday Times and he was walking his dog and then going to his place to fuck and exchanging numbers but not names — that I don’t count as [...]

by Carter Maddox
1 INT. CAR – SUMMER – DAY
SPENCER and CODY drive on a windy, rocky road. They are silent as they pass a glass marijuana pipe between themselves. At the same time, SPENCER glances through a brochure entitled “The German Experience.” CODY coughs. He can’t stop coughing.

SPENCER (searching the car): Cody do we have any [...]

by Richard Mandrachio
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CHAOS:
The swells and eddies of this river tug at me, draw me to destinations of which I have no knowledge. My power seems infinite once I arrive but for the moment I’m helpless, a victim of the flows, a piece of flotsam in the currents of what? A spatial anomaly? [...]

by Kevin Langson
As I stood waiting in the lobby to be interviewed for a job I knew I wouldn’t be offered, it occurred to me that life would be so much more pleasant if my heart was more like my hair. In my anxiety, I contemplated the fact that my bangs will lay to [...]

by Bill York
Koki was perfect: beautiful, gentle, controlled, mysterious. Everything I loved about Japan lived in that one word: Koki. In the rain, I was walking back to my own hotel in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. With a delicate, definite “No,” Koki had escaped to the room I was not allowed to enter, [...]

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