Posts filed under ‘Fiction’
Fiction: “Prometheus” by James Henschen
“I don’t want to know what it was ‘like’, I want to know what it was.”
When the detective with the crooked jaw and prom king blue eyes says this to me, I want to punch him in the throat. Apparently, he lacks an appreciation for metaphor because what I said was “it was like a symphony of orange and white, dancing, mocking us as we watched our life disappear into little black specks of nothingness.” I know, it was a bit elaborate, but I couldn’t help myself. What it was; was a fire. One that I started, but he doesn’t know that. He doesn’t ask his arrogant questions because he suspects anything. I am flawless and practiced. He asks his questions because he is simple. But I still want to punch him in the throat. Instead I look at him, calm and confused.
Sneak Preview: “Breakfast at the All-Nude Revue” by Ingrid Satelmajer
Our Winter 2009 page now has a great humorous short story, one of three that’ll be appearing in our upcoming issue.
Fiction: Out of Love by Randall Brown
Lucy believes—the way she trusts gravity, getting old, being lonely—that she does not matter in this world. If she could talk to me, writing her, she could not form the words to ask for help, because she does not grasp the lie at the center of her Self. I want so much to save Lucy, but I don’t know how.
