Nana had loved Mike for years. There was something of the earth about the man. He owned land but the...
A story from rural Kenya. From the Becoming Erick Collection. Edited by Poppy Johnson. A Mother’s Manual Dreamily he watched,...
Steven. Steven, is loose. Loose, so I had to go looking for him. I’d been meaning to fix the gate....
The dog had been missing since morning. It was getting late in the day, but I still wasn’t too keen...
Sheets of rain slice your face. From this distance, you should be able to see Salthill’s bars and restaurants but...
Roger Conroy rolled up in his Volvo. Laura was on the swing beneath the dead tree reading a paperback Amish...
We’d passed Neary’s millions of times. It was about halfway between me and Tobin’s place outside our village. We’d often...
The following is an excerpt from Robert Block’s novel Ardensville. Harold Harold Vinnoir. He came from Minnesota. He is a...
This is the beginning of Colin’s novel The Virtues of Destruction, now available on Amazon. * Hidden within one sharp and brooding...
Yumi sat crossed-legged on the floor. She had spread out onto the carpet an ugly lime green table cloth that...
‘The wind was fierce last night, wasn’t it?’ ‘Yeah. I thought the windows were going to blow in on top...
It was a wild summer. As soon as school closed, Wee Stevie went into hospital for surgery, and then his...