September, 2009

In Which Sam Martone Attempts His Father's Exercise

Writing Exercise: Begin a story with a horrific death, an agonizing scene of violence, then use the story to track the trauma, its aftermath. One track unavailable to you is vengeance or retribution. There is no further violence; no one else dies for the duration of the story. The story is to be about the living, with the death happily or not, ever after...

by Sam Martone | Read story

Night School

The doors were locked so my brother Jesse and I busted a window. They were building a new school in our neighborhood, the one Jesse would attend next year as a freshman and me a year after. It was close to midnight and we’d already managed two cans of Budweiser and a package of jerky while shoplifting...

by Steven J. McDermott | Read story

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by Brian Oliu | Read story