Things categorized as 'Tales'
The Men
By James W. Hritz Part I: Hard to Parse On the concrete — a dead man. Did anyone care that when he fell his legs snapped like carrots and that his blood ran ...
The Maid’s Dream
By Peg Alford Pursell Lately she'd been waking with the sense of having an important dream forgotten in the moment of opening her eyes. The dream would be transformative if only she could ...
The Girl and the Stone
By Peg Alford Pursell The stone was green. It may have been moss that made it so. He didn't know; he picked it up from the side of the road and threw it. ...
Incident at Oscuro
by Steve Moore She was laying on the edge of the road with her head a good foot past the white line. At first, Tennessee thought that she must've been a large dog; ...
The Courtship of Lady Boo-Boo
By Bosley Gravel (apologies to Charles Dodgson) In the land of Nod . . . Tweedledee threw three knives, one after the other; they sailed through the air, spinning in a blur of ...
A Roadful of Ducks
By Tantra Bensko I never thought I'd find comfort this way, but no one told me I couldn't. I just gave it a go, and the ducks are following me down the road ...
Togetherness
By Abha Iyengar The humerus bone has ‘humor’ of a malignant kind, that which shows no restraint. It went jerking in another direction, that is, the direction of a no-no, towards the man ...
Khoa in Chiapas
By Tram Nguyen He’s seen her before, coming out of the church as he was walking inside. He’d only wanted a place to sit, where it was dark and cool and quiet. He ...
Four Scenes from a Neo-Mythic Western
A comic-book script by Josh Wilson, inspired by Nate Orman's comments about Western mythic storytelling. April 5, 2008, Van Ness Ave & Green St, San Francisco. SCENE 1 A vast Western ...
The Sea-King and the City
By Josh Wilson You often ask, child, about the fog that rolls in thick on the heels of the day, and clings like a shroud through highest summer. Any student of atmospheres and ...
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