When news that a child had disappeared rippled through the neighborhood, we answered the call. I’d been living here eight years and hadn’t had many conversations with neighbors on my street. For one thing, everyone on Shaggy Birch Loop was Catholic except me and the older couple next door who didn’t talk with anyone. Their son had died at some point in the past, over eight years ago, and they […]
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Arthur Carey | Fourth of July
Ahmad jerked awake, dragged from uneasy sleep by the wail of a siren on the street below. In his dream, he had been back in the desert in Afghanistan, firing an AK-47 at targets stuffed with straw to resemble men. He was exhausted, worn out from non-stop travel. Was it only days before he had been living with his mother Ameena in a mud house in a village? Now he […]
Ellis Acton Currer | September
I was there the first time Ricky tried to escape. He would try again, and again, one hand at a time, but it was the first that set the pattern for all the rest. He almost missed me, coming up The Walk. I was just down from Hope, leaning against the chain-link fence in the shade, ignoring a group of Caininites nearby. Shane, Billy, Horse, others I didn’t know. They […]
Benito Gutierrez | La cadena
Thirty-six-year-old Angel Guerra took a long pull from his cigarette and leaned back against the parking pylon in front of Pete’s Market, one foot tucked up behind him, the other planted securely on the ground. He exhaled slowly, allowing the smoke to envelop the sides of his face, up past his ball cap dissolving into the night sky. Bathed in a dim, fluorescent light with intermittent bursts of neon red […]
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