This story contains themes or mentions of suicide or self harm. MONKEY JUNGLE Trigger warning : Suicide “Your mother,” starts Jeremiah. There is a pause as he searches for an apt phrase, finally describing her as “quaint” in the same way he under-describes me as “troubled”. Ironic that I, not he, should … Read more
The first time we played Danish after Sloop disappeared, Maggie O’Neill had a fever that nearly killed her. She put down a Queen and a seven and that meant it wasn’t going to be her night. I had a King and if I placed it upside down, I’d have taken a clean twenty dollar bill … Read more
It was the stamps. Church Sheridan wasn’t in the habit of noticing stamps, and he rarely got letters anymore. Nearly everything he received had those pre-stamped things that read “PRESORTED FIRST-CLASS MAIL”. If there was a stamp, it was one of those soulless “FOREVER” stamps. Little wonder that stamp collecting had gone out of fashion. … Read more
The moon, a spectral coin in the inky sky, was my only companion. Not that I minded. After… well, after everything, solitude was a comfort. I am Silas, and I am, for lack of a more elegant term, a ghost. I haunt, reside, perhaps even guard the old St. Augustine Cemetery. Not by design, mind … Read more
This story contains sensitive content Someone gets killed War My family was cleaning up the house where our grandfather, George, had been living with his wife, Grace. He passed away last month, at the age of 84. After the burial, Grandma had asked us to come by in a few weeks, and help clear out … Read more