First, Do No Harm by Chesley Richards
First, Do No Harm by Chesley Richards I had a $10,000 gambling debt. I was a rising 5th year surgery resident, with a year more before I would be on my own and making...
Fiction
Avram by James C. Clar
Avram by James C. Clar In the oldest part of the city stands the once-grand National Library. There, in the basement reading room, I saw Avram Yandek for the first and the last time....
Carrigan’s Challenge by Ronnie Cassano
Carrigan’s Challenge by Ronnie Cassano Everywhere I look I see blood. Final blood. The last drops oozing out of some poor bastard’s body. Scenes so grotesque I know they will haunt me forever. They...
Agrapha Dogmata by Luke Miller
Agrapha Dogmata by Luke Miller At the end of August, my boss was finally retiring. His departure meant that I would be promoted to Head Librarian. I’d been working in the library at Westminster...
Belief Blockade by Garrett Carroll
Belief Blockade by Garrett Carroll Calm. All Vanders felt was calm. He had long since conceded himself to his inevitable fate. He was, by all accounts, on the verge of death. Physical death,...
The Promise by Gary Earl Ross
The Promise by Gary Earl Ross However experienced in matters of the flesh, no man forgets his wedding night. For some, that first intimacy after the exchange of vows is the final passage...
It Eats Itself by Russ Bickerstaff
It Eats Itself by Russ Bickerstaff The food eats itself. When no one’s working. When no one‘s paying attention to it. The food is kind of self-conscious about everything. So it starts eating itself....
Post-Apocalypse Prix Fixe by Emily Gennis
Post-Apocalypse Prix Fixe by Emily Gennis First time guests at Il Trucchetto could be forgiven for passing right by the restaurant without even realizing it’s there. They will observe the corrugated metal sheets, the...
Prey by Bill Tope
Prey by Bill Tope 1 “I had a strange dream last night, Luke,” said Rob, the owner of the restaurant where Luke worked. Luke looked up from the flat griddle where he was preparing...
The Silver Girl by Bill Tope
The Silver Girl by Bill Tope 1 It was Halloween night, 1969, when Franklin first saw the Silver Girl. He was out with his only friend, Paul, plodding through the chilly, foggy streets of...
