“Kaboom” by Eileen Vorbach Collins
The homework assignment was simple; make something to do with transportation.
Category: Original Fiction
“Last Waltz on Titan” by Michael S. Diamond
The hexagonal plate, the needle and the rosette. Shades of yellow varying from near colorless to a turbid brown. They might be beautiful if they weren’t so damn painful when they struck.
“Rhumba” by Alec Binnie
Detective Owen Newlin stashed the stolen LaSalle in the alley behind the Colonnade apartment house and climbed the fire escape, which rose through an open air shaft.
“Dew Wheat” by Denise Hume
“I dew wheat.” I never knew the power of words until my two year old asked to “do it.” Those two little words sent dread flying through my body.
“Each Night” by Christopher Moore
Her Mum thinks it’s a bereavement group. The kids think it’s a ‘special class’ that will make mummy better and smarter. Age-appropriate lies, but both have done the trick, as she’s never had to make excuses again beyond the first couple of times.
“Finally Sleep” by Gissel Reynoso
“Ready to go?” the store manager asks me. I respond almost too excitedly: “Most definitely, I am exhausted.” To say I am exhausted is an understatement. I don’t remember the last time I got a full night’s sleep.
“Toddler Distance” by Carolyn Lochhead
Time is relative, so Einstein told us. I am sure he was right—I’m not really qualified to contradict one of the world’s greatest scientists—but motherhood has taught me that distance is relative, too.
“The Mind Bar” by Tasha Cotter
At the Mind Bar, they each took a chair with a Mind Specialist, overhead lights beating down on each of them at their individual station.