Beasley’s Machines by Nathaniel Johnson
Raymond Eliot Beasley – his wife Ellen always summoned the full name – was up in the attic playing worn records in his dust-webbed playroom.
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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.
Old Bells, Young Mountains by Eric Bosse
She felt a little drunk from the constant motion of sleeping in the car, but when he asked her to drive she slapped her cheeks and adjusted the rearview mirror.
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Sex and Candy by Hairee Lee
A friend of mine hasn’t had sex in over three years.
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Continue readingThe Ferry of Unfulfilment by O.Henry
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The Treasure in the Forest by W. G. Wells
The canoe was now approaching the land. The bay opened out, and a gap in the white surf of the
Continue readingThe Sister-Years by Nathanial Hawthorn
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The Country of the Blind by H. B. Wells
Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s
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The Last Leaf by O’Henry In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken
Continue readingThe Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather
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A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway
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