The hardest part was choosing the music, until this email, anyway. This isn’t a suicide note in the usual sense. Yes, I’m still going to kill myself, but it’s not like it will be a surprise to anyone, especially not you. Nothing’s changed since we said our goodbyes at the airport. The reason I’m writing is because of this stick-thin young woman across from me. She’s a talker; comes on […]
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Pamela J. Picard | The way she was
The party expanded in size, growing, as if resting on a bubble, bigger and bigger with every breath. Just when the room seemed to be brimming beyond capacity, the door smashed open, giving the human gaggle air enough to bellow the name of the first face spotted at the door, in a chorus. I felt something of a bug tickle but couldn’t distinguish the source from within the hive. Someone […]
Patricia Dicks | Skies are blue
Beautiful blue skies, air tinged with the scent of stale bodies in the midst of international transport. The days were running together. Sal stood at the entrance of the airplane greeting oncoming passengers. Each one, she noted, looked weary and not suspicious, in the way she’d been trained to scan for. A country man in his Sunday suit, inappropriate for the long, uncomfortable flight. Two women looking over their shoulders, […]
Elizabeth Hoyle | Special delivery
I used to think that the pages of books were like feathers: soft, warm, and able to carry you away with a little rustling. I pray with every hope in my heart that my younger thoughts were right. Each step I take brings me closer to that jagged wire fence. I know I need to get closer, even though my feet and my stomach don’t want me to. I had […]
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