…nobody else volunteered to be the first-aid instructor’s victim after that. But victims they became, nonetheless.… more
Tag Archives: Kids
James, Transcendent, Everyone Else, Stuck in the Mud
Fiction by Jimmy PetardWhen Mary finds him, she’s going to punish him. He will inadvertently disarm her probably, she knows, imagining a headfirst hug at the bottom of the slide, a tangled pile, wheezing and wild with laughter. The smiling cherub laughs, anger wilts.… more
What Our Fathers Knew
Fiction by Alan Stewart Carl“We think about our wives, our children, think about our fathers: they would have known how to make a loser laugh, how to get a winner to pay.… more
