Fiction
May/June 2020
You Can Figure It Out
It was a late afternoon in November, the sun low and the desert hazy with dust. The doors of the Road Runner were open to the concrete patio, where Ned […]
Fiction
Spring 2007
Harold Carlisle
He’s gone into a nursing home is what I’ve heard, from his mother first and then from Bobby Allgood, who used to work for him. He was forty-three when I […]
Fiction
Nov/Dec 2015
Sorry
The roads were lightly iced when Tom Lahey and I pulled up at dawn to the vacant lot on Lily Lane. It had snowed earlier, three or four inches of […]
Fiction
Summer 2012
My Buried Life
“‘But often, in the din of strife, there rises an unspeakable desire after the knowledge of our buried life …” Mr. Lunsford was at the front of the classroom, reading […]
Fiction
Spring 2009
The All-Night Coffee Shop
Kersey, Colorado, was fifteen miles east of Greeley, a tiny town at the edge of the eastern plains, and in all the years Charlotte had worked for Dave Larsen she […]