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Lennon and McCartney  by PAUL DICKEY

20 May 2007
Vol. 7, No. 1
flash fiction

Sixty-two year old Paul McCartney, a bankrupt businessman of Liverpool, strolled down Penny Lane watching children laugh behind the back of a banker with a motorcar. He worried how he was going to pay the rent due next week on his flat across the hall from Father McKenzie. He carried an old transistor radio that he had pilfered from the junkshop down by Strawberry Fields.

One Thousand Years  by DAVID BULLEY

2 May 2007
Vol. 7, No. 1
short story

The cold had come in a calm so complete not a molecule of water had moved, and not a leaf had fallen from a tree, not a bug nor animal nor drop of snow or rain had moved the water. Water needs movement in order to change. The same way you can microwave water far beyond boiling and it will sit unboiled until you touch it with a spoon and it explodes, that same way water can sometimes freeze unfrozen, and stay that way, on the edge of ice until something touches it.

The Confidential Mechanic  by ALICE WHITTENBURG

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
flash fiction

In the morning her postcard lay in the mail safe, a little apart from the other mail, singing, "Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."

Arriving in One Piece  by LAURA MADELINE WISEMAN

2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
short story, magical realism

When I woke up without my little toe, I knew it was going to be the day.

 

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