Month: September 2021

Cassie read it again. The review was good. Really good for the very conservative Observer, which often lauded traditional art forms like painting and sculpture, but rarely anything else. After years of meticulously applying the glazes to her originally designed tiles, and sweating in anticipation every week upon opening the kiln, and tirelessly marketing her work to high-end craft stores […]

As I gripped the thick black shaft in my hand while letting the older bull kiss me in the dark basement of the bathhouse, I realized I was hornier than I’d ever been in my 18 year old life. My tightly clenched but curious anus quivered and throbbed when he placed a calloused finger against it and rubbed. “Fuck yeah, […]

The Cessna 180 came down hard on the water, the waves causing it to buck and pitch. The landing might have been successful had not a pontoon brushed against an unseen outcrop of coral just below the water’s surface. The airplane lurched onto its side, perching on the coral and rocking unsteadily. “We have to get out of here now,” […]

Ray and me, we’d known each other for decades. Our friendship had outlasted our jobs at the company where we’d first met, as well as both our marriages. He was the human equivalent of a favorite shirt or pair of shoes, and I mean that as a compliment–comfortable and reliable, someone who would always be there. As we moved into […]

It was a dull, wet weekday in late July 2011, the kind of day that made you feel that summer was over and autumn had well and truly arrived. Heavy drops of cold rain splashed onto roads and pavements and dripped from every tree before flowing in torrents along gutters and into drains. Emily skipped between puddles on her way […]

I wasn’t sure what I was doing there if I was quite honest. I was naked under the sheets while Trevor hovered around the bed in expectation. We were in a large hotel room in the middle of a sunny day, light streaming through the plate glass windows. Maybe a half an hour away from our house. I don’t remember […]

The sun rose low over Berlin on a freezing winters morning. Frost lay thick on the grass as Sabine walked her usual route through the Tiergarten from her apartment overlooking the wall in Koch Strasse, to her job as a lab assistant in the Technische Universität. It was a long walk and at this time of the year, a bitterly […]

“Red wine for the lady, please,” Adrian gestured to Marco. Club Nine-Eleven was highly cheerful that day. A group of young girls in little black dresses were having the time of their life. There was a huge red velvet cake, candles and flowers and lots of glitter at their party. Though they had booked a private corner, their half-drunken screams […]

There’s a small washed-up farm at the edge of my small washed-up town. It hasn’t been growing much besides a plum tree and maybe some kale for years now. In an effort to get the community to invest in revamping the farm up, its owners put on a small fair there. I don’t like to turn community activities down, so […]

The morning light filtered through the slats of the blinds over the window of my office on Riverside Drive as I walked into it. I didn’t choose this life, it chose me. And all I have to compensate for it is my flask of bourbon, a powerful handgun, and a red crowbar. Yes, that’s me, Russ Ferrament. I’m a local […]