Dusk By Chris Galford
Dusk. I can hear them in the walls. The chitter of their legs rattles plaster.
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Dusk. I can hear them in the walls. The chitter of their legs rattles plaster.
Continue readingShe had finally done it. She had become a cantankerous old lady.
Continue readingShe lay on the bed crying, the tears wouldn’t cease. The world was so god-damn unfair. She had gone to bed two hours earlier in an attempt to escape the memories and find some much needed rest.
Continue reading“We think the chance of change is good but so far we haven’t recorded anything concrete.”
Continue readingSophia immerses the podgy quail into a pot of hot water and then starts plucking them. Tufts of brown feathers blanket the water. She then cuts their heads
Continue readingHe could hear it. Slowly, cautiously advancing .Building up pressure slowly increasing ever slightly. And then all at once exploding like a cyclone, vibrating,
Continue readingI was home on break. Freezing rain came and went. The cold, however, crossed its arms and chained itself to everything.
Continue readingDriving down the hill I see the same bend in the road the school bus took me around for years. I can see in the headlights the wildflowers ringing the curve like a necklace
Continue reading“A boy–good job, Mom!”
My doctor’s baritone penetrates the delivery room’s soundscape: sighing vacuum pumps, a chorus of medspeak, beeping monitors, all punctuated by
Continue readingPaul Finnigan is a short story writer from Ottawa, Canada. He has a collection of short fiction that has been published in both Canada and the United States
Continue readingI need to know if Di Fara has the best pizza in New York.
Continue readingThat day when we first kissed was a rainy Tuesday. We met for an innocent coffee while dark clouds built over the city. We talked about everything,
Continue readingThe mourners dispersed from the graveside in groups of twos and threes. They paused to pay their condolences to the family, some shaking hands
Continue readingIt is louder than a train passing only inches from our faces. It splashes in our ears, surrounding our eardrums. Its continuous roar is like nothing else
Continue readingDanny fixated his eyes upon a bursting star of grandiose fireworks, sparkling with eye-catching colors outside the bedroom window. The reflective waters outside captured
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