Veteran of the Psychic Wars

“It was hard to tell at almost-nineteen what was normal and what was specific to the excruciating silences of the relationships in my family.”

Two Boys on the Bus

“I’m stuttering just thinking about that shit.”

Emotional Roller Coaster

“What do you mean the money’s gone?”

Athens: A Low Summit

A story of love and international crime.

Fiction First Friday: “Summer House” by Sarah Griffin

“They feel the same things they are made of the same things and in all of this house she can’t see him, feel him…”

All I Want to Do is Play Dungeons and Dragons

When I was 25 years old, I struggled in vain to form a punk rock band, considered myself a “political outsider,” and dreamed of becoming the…

Fiction First Friday: “Middle School” by Andrea Kneeland

I huddled against Kyle on the skinny brown benches that lined the recess yard. I ran my finger along his arm and he didn’t move away.…

Not Quite Fourteen

On September 11, 2001, I was two weeks into high school, a month away from turning fourteen. I was getting ready for school in my bedroom…

Costco, Cancer and a Champagne Sebring

An encounter at Costco makes Tom Batten consider what it means to be a bully.