“Kitty at the Window” by Barry Gifford
NOVEL EXCERPT: “You like her, huh?”….“Just looking,” he said. “Do you know her?”
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“She Walks” by Matthew Sorrento
POETRY: “She’ll keep things swift, dialed up…as they want it….”
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POETRY: “The pit of fire in me was right there with death….”
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POETRY: “And I would kill for him, still would, ever since we met….”
Read More “The Girlfriend Problem” by Matthew Sorrento“The Coming Storm” by D. V. Bennett
Pulling up carefully on the latch handle, Jack Winslow stepped out of his Chevy Impala onto the lonely tree-lined street. The intense rain and wind would cover most sounds, but he was careful not to allow the low-register thump of his car door to cut through the din. Repossessing a motorcycle in the middle of […]
Read More “The Coming Storm” by D. V. Bennett“Border Feud” by Lance Mason
That summer in Oxnard was hot, humid in the mornings, with dew on the grass, and it smelled of the lima bean harvest and the sugarbeet mill out on Wooley Road. Now it was night, just on nine o’clock under a low, lemon moon, and Chuy Muro, in his ’39 Chevy coupe, was pulling across […]
Read More “Border Feud” by Lance Mason“The Kick The Bucket Tour” by Jo Perry
The light turned red while the driver regaled her passengers with details of Ramon Novarro’s torture-murder. That’s why the Kick The Bucket Tour’s roofless matte-black van lurched so late from Laurel Canyon, where Novarro lived, into the tangle of westbound traffic on Sunset and forced a motorcycle cop to swerve into the next lane. Oops, […]
Read More “The Kick The Bucket Tour” by Jo Perry“XXX Marks the Spot” by J.L. Delozier
Ella flounced from the theatre, her diamond earrings scattering angry slivers of red light down the deserted street. Not a cab in sight. Not at this hour; not in this part of town. He’d planned it that way. She stomped one glittery Louboutin against the curb and turned on the lanky man hovering at her […]
Read More “XXX Marks the Spot” by J.L. Delozier“Green Men on Horseback in Baltimore” by Clarinda Harris
On the circles, green statues ride like South American liberators above the breeding vegetation—Robert Lowell, “July in Washington” I. Walking down the steep hill from the Washington Monument toward Centre Street, Kilo and I descend into a steamy tunnel of heat. July in Baltimore. John Eager Howard and the Marquis de Lafayette bushwhack green […]
Read More “Green Men on Horseback in Baltimore” by Clarinda Harris“Down Solo” [excerpt] by Earl Javorsky
Charlie Miner wakes up looking down at his body on a gurney at the LA County morgue. When he moves closer to the body, it pulls him in and he is able to make it get up and walk around. Charlie, a down-on-his-luck, heroin-addicted insurance fraud investigator, leaves the morgue with two priorities: to get […]
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