New Fiction: Hamartia Lippincott | Pure Slush
My phone was pinging and whistling and popping with analyst notifications and team updates all morning, but then I remembered that waltz.
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Brad stepped over to where we sisters sat, like two old price tags from last season’s sale we must have looked, although Wynne looked wound up in that way that tempted Brad. I French inhaled without looking at him. He deviled Wynne, placed the dirty ashtray near her. “You might need this,” he said, and went back to bartending. I saw the lipstick. Rat.
Read more "Short Story: Jean, 1948 | Change Seven Magazine"New Fiction: Alistair’s Tears | Sick Lit Magazine
I turned the key, punched the code. The jetpack surged from rest. “Today’s the day, little Sparo.”
“A fine morning, Alistair Edgar,” Sparo said, blinking. “Shall we fly?”
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“But Grant innovates within genre and gender roles. Think of it as noir fiction hitting the West Coast in 1940, idling in a cul-de-sac for a few decades; then Grant hops into the driver’s seat with some Hispanic heroes and villains as passengers for a fresh spin around the block. “
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“Big Tee’s hushed voice said hold, son. Give me a moment here and I’ll take your hand.”
Read more "New Fiction: Arise | Sick Lit Magazine"FINALIST: Best Small Fictions 2017 | “Upfurler” | Pure Slush FIVE Anthology
Nominee: Best Small Fictions 2017 | “From a distance, upfurlers shimmered like a murmuration, gently hovered there, like some air current snapped a soft blanket below their soft forms; their tears plocked down, but wore away to nothing before anyone could know.”
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Orginally posted at Visual Verse | “…overestimate; borrow, beg, barter, pose: regionalize.”
Read more "New Fiction: Monsanto Ted Talk Plan | Visual Verse"New Review: RIFT: Stories by Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan
Originally posted on Change Seven Magazine:
REVIEWED BY A.E. WEISGERBER RIFT: Stories by Kathy Fish and Robert Vaughan RIFT: Stories by Kathy Fish + Robert Vaughan | Edited by Bud Smith | Unknown Press, 2015 | ISBN: 978-1518879708 | 211 pages RIFT is a collection that will earn repeated readings from many readers, flash fiction…
NEW FICTION: F. Scott, Remember Me | Jellyfish Review
Originally posted on Jellyfish Review:
F. Scott, Remember Me The Thirty Years War began in 1618, shortly after Protestants defenestrated two Catholic Regents and a secretary. They survived the 70-foot plunge from a window by divine intervention, although Protestants, horribly plagued by the Holy Roman Empire, said a soft landing in a dung heap was…
