Old Orange Shirt contorts his corpulent body and reaches for his wallet. This time he withdraws a...
Every Writer
Richard Edwards has a BFA in Creative Writing and Journalism from Bowling Green State University and an M.S. in Education from the University of Akron. Managing editor of Drunk Duck, poetry editor for Prairie Margins, reporter for Miscellany, Akron Journal, Lorain Journal, and The BG News. He has also worked as a professional writer and editor in the medical publishing industry for several years. For the last 15 years Richard has also taught literature and writing at the secondary and post-secondary levels. He works much of the time with at-risk students.
On the patio the afternoon rain had begun to fall. You could hear the drops hitting the...
Flirtatious sport, at best. A mere distraction. But one exciting and flattering as all hell. So what...
My thoughts are confused, the world is pitch-black, voices from another room are an incoherent chatter.
She was a girl then. She’d gone to Carlito’s Traveling Show with her mother, a woman who...
It's bloody freezing. Margaret reached out a thin, leather-gloved finger to activate the handicapped access. She pressed...
he fortune teller pushed the cloth curtains out of her way and stepped into the room, adjusting...
Steve shoved his hands into his pockets and stood at the crossing inhaling faint ethanol, human sweat...
Arriving like a crepe-soled creeper, Edgar tapped gently on the door and she, with a fake whiskey...
Gas. You need it. So into the station you steer your ten year old car. It has...
My chores were piling up and I was behind on my school reports so I kneeled next...
The Doctor’s foot rested on the shovel. The Wellingtons were heavy and clogged. They laboured their way...
Marijke writes a monthly story for us. She write our segment Stories in Africa, and her stories...
The Man With The Universe In His Chest by J.D. Lee It’s cold. The sky is...
John Cabe liked to eat his lunch in the gazebo. The roof provided shade and the open...