"An Die Musik, D.547" by Meredith England-Markun
I just learned more about this composer, Schubert, yesterday. I was trying a new song in my lesson, and my cello teacher filled me in...
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Sep 244 min read
"Narcissus on the Deck" by Andrew Careaga
We were hitting our stride this Saturday morning, bodily rhythms in sync. Then came the first thud: a strange knocking from somewhere at...
Nov 12, 202317 min read
"I Can Do It In My Sleep" by Sam Szanto
‘Mummy, look, a ghost did a painting.’ Maddie looks. On the kitchen table is a painting of a bucolic country scene. There is a farmhouse...
Jul 23, 20231 min read
"Writer in Residence" by Travis Grant
Boiled down, she was a writer and I wasn’t. “This story, it’s terrible,” she said. “You’re writing fiction, for Christ’s sake.” That hurt...
May 13, 202316 min read
"Wrong Side of the Ice Wall" by Aaron Jacobs
Let me tell you about the time I was eight and made my big screen debut in Cannibal Family. I played Billy Barker, the youngest son of a...
Apr 16, 20233 min read
"Footprints" by Jim Towns
The man’s name was Ray; and he struggled, alone, through the drifting waves of coarse white sand. The desert was anonymous—the rocks and...
Jan 22, 20235 min read
"Negative Eighty" by Leslie Farnsworth
John Stanley had a tear-off monthly calendar, the kind auto-repair shops give away. He’d taken off the cardboard backing or it had torn...
Nov 27, 20229 min read
“Got Milk?” By Wayne McCray
My girlfriend, Jolene, took it and ran with it, but I figured I should let her know. Too bad an argument ensued and it ended abruptly....
Aug 7, 202212 min read
"Let Me Tell You What Happened to Todd" by Hugh Blanton
There was nowhere for me to go when I aged out of Bell County Baptist Children's Home, but I didn't care. They gave me a list of job...
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