“. . . And now, class, let’s sum up this month’s unit. Three components comprise a story: beginning, middle, and end. Set up, conflict, and resolution.” Aristotle surveyed the classroom, ensuring himself of their attention, not yet sure he’d gained his pupils’ full respect, not yet convinced they cared for anything other than sports and swords. “Now then,” he clapped his hands together, rubbing his palms to warm and formally […]
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Evan Guilford-Blake | The invasion
I. We watched them dying and we were happy. We threw our grenades and fired our bazookas. The tanks exploded. The ones who lived crawled out, their uniforms brown with sweat and red with blood; we shot at them and, as we hit them, we cheered. Women, men. Cheering, dying. Often, they did not die at once. We shot them again, in the arms and legs and genitals and waited […]
William Cass | Unsaid, undone
Growing up, Pete was a Navy brat, and he basically followed in his father’s career military footsteps afterward. His father had been a pediatrician, while Pete had become an internist. When his parents passed away, Pete inherited their house in Coronado, and he finished the last twenty-five years of that career across the bridge at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego after serving on several deployments early on. Now, he’d […]
Kayla Swanson | Drowning in rain
It wasn’t yet raining, so she didn’t need to be glaring at me from the other side of the cash register like that, I said to myself as I put my grocery basket on the counter. Sheila was the more introverted of the Young sisters, the reddish-blonde progeny of the entrenched Mormon family of our small town. She was related to everyone by no more that two or three degrees […]
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