“Learning to Talk,” by Patricia Henritze
Truth is for Sissies My father never uttered three honest words in a row. He lied like it was a gift, like it was his right, like there was no difference between truth and lies and it was petty and small minded to think otherwise. He taught me to parcel out truth in the smallest increments – grains of truth, layered between lies to confound the listener and make them doubt themselves. Or maybe I’m lying, because fathers...
“Secrets of a Wooden Saint in a Church in Jalcomulco,” by Mary Ellen Sanger
The mothers look into the lake and see the whole sky. They believe I can keep their children safe. They come, photos snipped to stamp size, and pin their daughters’ faces on my robe. Carmela, Rosamaria, Inocencia, Flor. They come with a lock of their sons’ hair, a snip from his work shirt, a prayer. Roberto, Marco Antonio, Anastasio, Gil. The mothers come with snot and tears to beseech me to caress my feet to leave me field...
Cut Away by Cathy Kirkwood
Edmund White Award Finalist and Pushcart Nominee, Cut Away by Cathy Kirkwood expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability. First there was the pure desert silence in which the quietest voice spoke in dry, still air–one which took me over completely in the coming years and became the driving force of the novel. Then there was the surge of women,...
Allison Alsup Awarded Spring 2010 Orlando Short Fiction Prize
ALLISON ALSUP is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, now living with her husband in New Orleans where they are slowly renovating a one hundred thirty year old cottage. Two years ago, she made a shift from full-time teaching to part-time work so that she could devote more time to her fiction. “Quick and Clever” is a stand alone piece from an emerging work focusing on the early generations of Chinese immigrants. Another...
CJ Hauser Awarded Spring 2010 Orlando Flash Fiction Prize
CJ HAUSER is a spinner of yarns and writer of fiction who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has published fiction in The Brooklyn Review and the L magazine and believes New York is the best possible place to grow a story. She is currently at work on a novel about fishing towns, taxidermy, and love. Read CJ’s award winning flash fiction story, “Buoys,” here.
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