The Kid and the Poet by Greg Stidham
I The wooden leg of the straight-backed chair groaned as the boy scooted it over the hardwood floor, a few inches closer to the bed. The room was dim, with…
Empty Silos
Midnight Dogs by Chip Jett
The little Yorkie dog wandered onto Andy Rice’s property on the last day of post planning. Andy had arrived home, alone, fixed himself a bite to eat, then settled into…
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The Face in the Portrait by Clark Zlotchew
The pit bull’s bark sounded as though it blasted its way out of a bull horn, each bark making the postman flinch. In between barks it lunged at the postman,…
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Sunfish by Jeffrey Penn May
“When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Paleozoic time, And side by side in the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime.” ~…
Poetry
A Thousand Ways by Kim Cope Tait
A Thousand Ways I didn’t know I could be satisfied with my palm flat on the back of a boy whose heartbeat was a whisper on my skin. I didn’t…