Jacob Yoss makes his Drunk Monkeys debut with a touching short story of a dying child's last wish, "The Rush Wish".
While Rider recovered, Aiyana asked the interpreter, “Where’s his family?”
The woman’s face dropped. “They’re not here.”
“Where are they?”
“Still in the park.”
Aiyana blinked. “What?”
Some things time can heal, and some things it can't. L.D. Zane offers an emotional reflection on the past in his flash fiction piece "The Picnic".
“Whatever happened to those kids?” asked Mikey.
A parent's rash decision has long-lasting repercussions in Doug Patrick's short story "The Playground with Dad".
I go for the next bar again, but I can’t grab it. I start wishing I was a monkey. Maybe Dad would like me more then. I’d be able to get to the end of the bars, at least.
The rush of excitement gives way to the banality of the day after, in John C. Mannone's subtly brilliant flash fiction piece, "A Glass of Water".
She twirls her wedding ring as if that could wipe away the tarnish. This is not the way she intended to end the affair.
William Lessard, our Writer of the Month for January 2016, reports from a future not so far away to reveal that Lena Dunham has saved ... not THE world ... but A world.
