Archive for September 1997
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 by Chris Mitchell - The night began calmly enough (500 words)The Carnival by Mervyn Dejecacion - "Dad," Chapel said in a childlike, staccato manner. "I want to go to the carnival" (3600 words)Comforting Words by Cassandra Free - I gazed out at the ocean - the cool, calm ocean (300 words)Crash by Kevin Koperski - In mere seconds the unspoken dangers of a sport flash into reality. Not just another day of practice, this one will always be remembered (1400 words)El Loco Gringo by Gerald Eisman - Sometimes when seeking to complete a contract, one should pay very careful attention to the intentions of the other signatory (3500 words)A Falling Leaf by Jason R Bleckly - A light rain falls from the slate grey sky (400 words)The Final Night by Nicole Raymell - An abused teen in the end finds a glimpse of hope (600 words)F.O.B. - A Tale of Viet Nam by Fred Lundin - Lieutenant Arnold Pfeiffer examined the stack of mission sheets in front of him (5000 words)Generic Short Title by Dan Krzyzanowski - Walter Jenkins asks the Pope for a favor. Also deals with reality, aliens, card games, and related issues (500 words)The Grafting by Larry Lynch - In grafting, the surfaces of two freshly cut stems are bound tightly together so that they can not twist or pull apart (4000 words)Gratitude  by Tom Dwyer - It had been years since he had visited his family in Philadelphia (1400 words)Hook Noses, Popped Cheek Bones, and Our Own Inquisition by Aldo Penaloza - A grown man looks back at his own childhood, a childhood that took place in Lima (800 words)I Looked Up From My Writing by David Michael Slater - Alone in the loft of his secluded farmhouse, Arthur Toth was gradually being overwhelmed by a sensation the likes of which he had scarcely imagined (4000 words)In The Blood by Janice Farnsworth - A nightmare to be sure....just a horrible, red, disgusting nightmare (400 words)It Was An Accident by Stu Silver - It was a cool Saturday night in April on Long Island, New York (2600 words)King of Shabbos by Stu Silver - Rabbi Schwartz phoned Yussie Yablonsky from his office in Temple Chaim (1800 words)The Looking Glass by Janice Farnsworth - As I stare at the silver, oval shaped glass, I remember a little girl with brown hair and dark brown eyes looking up at me (300 words)Love at 16 or 16 and obsessed by Cassandra Free - I sense his presence as he enters, his aura invading my space (500 words)Natural Music by David Macdonald - A woman's direction in life is in doubt after a meeting with a friend (2500 words)Ronald the Repairman by Mike Leinoff - Some guys have absolutely NO mechanical ability. Meet one who should BE so lucky! (600 words)A Summer's Apple-Scented Dream by Larry Lynch - Is it the baby-sitter? I've arranged for a new one (5000 words)The Things You Remember by Stu Silver - It was bright, clear Sunday afternoon in early fall in Lynbrook, New York (2200 words)The Weather Center by Joseph Straub - A guy dies in a freak canoeing accident and talks to a friendly man on cloud nine about death and the afterlife (1700 words)They have cable in hell by Dan Krzyzanowski - Norman Wallace was dead, then he had to go before God's Judgement. Where did he end up, heaven or hell? (1000 words)Who Needs It? by Gerald Eisman - Sometimes when a man seeks to discover a truth, what he really discovers is himself (2500 words)Yussel's Yamika by Stu Silver - It was a grand yamika, or skullcap, that my younger brother, Yussel got for his ninth birthday (2900 words)Zeke and His Hog by Stu Silver - He could fulfil one of his own lurking, just-below-the-surface, secret desires that was planted in the time of his early adolescence (2900 words)
by Andrew Johnson - There are always complications or complexities to loving a goddess (2600 words)Omelette du Jour by Sholder Greye - Oviparous metamorphosis and ovular irony (2100 words)Sometimes The Innocent Need To Die by Jason R Bleckly - He has been my friend since youth (800 words)A Test of Will by James Hightower - A traveler is lured to a country estate by a gorgeous woman, to be entombed in a block of metal that allows his mind to work while suspending his physical existence (5000 words)Time Owl by Katherine Dawson - This is the story of a Tlingit girls use of time travel to go back and learn about her ancestors (1100 words)
by Jason R Bleckly - The glass shattered opening the way to a dark refuge (2200 words)Hands by Larry Garrett - It�s dark. It�s late. He�s waiting (1800 words)Mind Your Own Business by Alex Wilkinson - Mind your own business . . . but do read me (3500 words)Miranda�s Escape by Janice Farnsworth - An emotionally abused wife and the anger that she has built up inside (4400 words)Necropolis by Mike Leinoff - Inside the city, the ultimate evil waits (4000 words)The New Drug by James Hightower - Clinical trials for a new drug, a cure for arthritis, goes a bit astray... (3500 words)The Snow Globe by Katie Kemp - Just an everyday snow globe... or is it? (1000 words)Under the Skin by Simon Keogh - A man has a bad surgery experiance in foreign city (4000 words)
by Andrew Johnson - A world where the atmosphere burns in huge firestorms every 7 years (3000 words)In The Beginning Man Created by Jason R Bleckly - Next July we collide with Mars (2000 words)The Mouse and The Wheel by Chris A. - A new way to make energy (3400 words)Replacements by Katherine Dawson - A survivor of a crashed ship finds himself on a strange world (400 words)TV Drama by Robert N Stephenson - "Rubbish, Ref!" Jeff screamed at the TV, spilling beer down the front of his stained, blue undershirt as he threw his hands up in dismay (4500 words)
by Christine James - A story about love - found, lost and found again (2600 words)Akinowa & Meri by Kathleen Gabriel -Remembering a story of one man's love and the continuing search to find that love once again (5000 words)And Then He Came Back by Nicole - Would you believe me if I told you true love never fades away? (1000 words)Blue Theme by James Hightower -Sadness is lessened as wine is consumed (500 words)Look at the Moon by Ted W. Nagy - Astory of pure unrequited love... (1900 words)Popular Girl by Ken Goldman - Atwenty year high school reunion reunites a love struck mid-lifer with themost popular girl in school who has occupied his fantasies for all those years (3400 words)Vision splendid by Ian Lester - Boy meets girl. Ahhhh the mystery of love (1600 words)
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