Charles

Man sending text message and sms with smartphone. Guy texting and using mobile phone late at night in dark. Communication or sexting concept. Finger typing with cellphone keyboard.

Charles wants one final, anonymous hookup before reconciling with his boyfriend but his date has other plans.

Adventures of a Young Virgin

Hippie girl

A 15-year-old teenager in the 60s yearns for true love like the one shared by Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights. By Mara Thygeson.

Dr. God Awful

obese fat boy measuring tape of stomach isolated on black background, healthy and lose weight

Dr. Richardson winced at the sight of Jerry’s feet. Was it his imagination, or had they gotten puffier, leaving large, damp footprints by the deck chair where Jerry sat alone in flamingo-patterned swim trunks, sipping a giant pink Slurpee? By Diane Bracuk

The Last Word

Stars and material falls into a black hole

My name is Troy, my last name doesn’t matter, believe me. It’s going poof like everything else. Ask me if I give a flying whatever. By Gary Duehr

Ask the Rust

Homeless man drug and alcohol addict sitting alone and depressed on the street in winter clothes feeling anxious cold and lonely, social documentary concept dramatic black and white image

A struggling writer with delusions of grandeur gets what’s coming to him.

Obsidian

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Jay had a deadline but his brother’s unique condition gets in the way.

Cossacks

Fifty Lashes

Grandma and Gramps may be communists and the FBI is listening.

Certainty

Soul. Figure of man in shining cloak in the sky

By James F. McGrath, “I’m recording this so that you can be certain, as I am…” Kelly Wallace pushed the button on the console again and stopped the recording. Before she finalized it, and recorded the concluding phrase, before she made it final and sent it off, she wanted to listen to the entire thing one […]