Going to the Beach
A destitute worker reflects on his high school teacher and her promise
Short Story
Loco Parentis
A nurse deposits a ten-month-old boy with a new mother
Unrequited Love
The author prefaces his confession, citing good intentions despite harm brought to
Thou Spark of Blood
Gibson wakes to find Commander Lorenz asleep and Major Cappio dead, his
The Green Wall Said
Five human beings find themselves seated in a semicircular room and surrounded
Mountains Like Mice
In a walled courtyard of the academy, Otho the Captive dyes Dirk’
Last Drink Bird Head
A fiction writer reflects on a bygone era of cocktails with fanciful
The Last Casualty of Cambrai
A young woman and her companion examine a three-quarter-size mannequin
The Largest Luger
Pitney Philips meets in his San Antonio office with firearms dealer Orville
Volksweapon
Game warden Wilt Smythe examines the body of a dead girl sprawled
Screen Test
Miss Ambrose, an old woman in dark glasses, gestures towards the design
How I Got Three Zip Codes
A submarine torpedoes the sun, and it sinks into the waters of