Chris pedaled his bike through the Jersey barriers that stood haphazardly around the Dollar General parking lot like old men waiting outside a soup kitchen. He glanced toward the store, all its plate glass windows shattered, a yellow POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS banner stretched around the entire building. People in yellow hazmat suits clustered […]
Cooped up inside my house by the Covid-19 pandemic, I’ve found myself preoccupied with dystopian movies and books. We know we live in an alt-world of dystopian fiction, but have you thought to look the word up in the dictionary? Dystopian characterizes “an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.” All […]
I’m not a huge fan of contemporary short stories, even though I read and edit them weekly for publication in the Fictional Café ‘zine. My own reading and writing interest leans in more toward novels, with an occasional digression into flash fiction. However I do enjoy mystery short stories, a lot, and often delve into […]