The Persian Version by Jeffrey Meyers In June 1971 my wife and I drove across Turkey in a Volkswagen bug without seat belts or air…
Posts published in “Stories”
Humorous fiction and short stories
Japan and Korea: Delights and Horrors by Jeffrey Meyers After completing my two-year appointment at UCLA in 1965 and leaving my year-long English girlfriend there,…
Goodnight Mold By Casey Alexander Ben was partway through his morning pigeon salute. It was an inhospitable morning; he stood on the balcony with an…
New Salem University by Bill Curtis “Why does Socrates end the dialogue by talking about a myth of all things? Isn’t that puzzling? Isn’t myth…
by Jeffrey Meyers As a college student I’d been traveling alone for a month through Greece, Yugoslavia and Germany, where I didn’t know the languages,…
By Louis Marvick ‘But how the devil did it come about in the first place,’ I asked, ‘that the conductor of a great symphony orchestra…
Loved, Solvent, Alive Casey Alexander A hostile-looking woman flickered onto the screen. As the established employee, Erin enjoyed the privilege of drabness: she’d thrown a…
Silent Night, Holy Night Sona Lea Dombourian I have changed my foreign ways and am reborn. Imbued with the Spirit, I will go West and…
Edward Giron The voices in the room returned at the same hour. I knew to expect them, to invite them, to welcome them. When…
To Pee or Not to Pee by Virginia Konchan An unnamed, middle-aged female Amazon Fulfillment worker getting paid $12/hour without benefits, working 40 hours a…
Chapter Two: Names “The tribe, huh? You should take advantage of that.” I was sitting in a downtown cafe with my former political science teacher,…
by Kristine Laco I headed to my illegal occupation, expecting it to be a normal Tuesday. I am a consensual participant in one of the…
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