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Fiction Indecent Exposure is an unforgettable story about the power of love despite one family’s failure to express emotion. The family patriarch, a WWII veteran, attributed his survival to the bombing of Hiroshima; his children Chip and Emily grew up under the shadow of survivor guilt. When their father dies, the two find themselves on the […]  The world of a young child with Aspbergers is a world where life is difficult but can be sweet. This short story takes the reader on a compassionate walk with the mother of one such child.  Vietnam war action-adventure told by debut author Roger Hogan. Paul Marchand is the Officer in Charge of a U.S. Swift boat in South Vietnam in 1967. His adventures range from deadly firefights to the rescue of a captured Swift boat crew. Following his ill-conceived court martial, he stalks a murderous guerrilla into a pestilent swamp, […]  J R Stringer’s newly published anthology for 2013 brings three short stories together in one edition. These carefully chosen texts are deep, dramatic and dark. New story ‘Really Living’ makes this anthology an essential purchase. One Night Stand Off – Everyone just needs encouragement . . . An otherwise ball-achingly boring work conference turns excruciatingly […]   Sarah’s pumped about her upcoming graduation from a Quaker high school, but there’s a hitch. Her father moved into the bathroom several months ago, sleeping in the tub, eating meals, and running his business from his tiled sanctuary. Sarah’s grandma finds a shrink named Dr. Krishnamurthy who makes house calls, but Sarah’s managed to insult […]  Like all revolutions, the sexual revolution had casualties. Sarah, a motherless teenager of the early ‘70s, celebrates her “liberation” in a self-destructive way, unwilling to admit she’s being used. At Sarah’s own moment of greatest danger, she tries to rescue someone else—and discovers her latent power.  So Izzy got knocked up. Not by one of the art school bad boys, but by white-bread Harris, her neighbor. Her churchgoing pillar of a dad reminded Izzy that she “can do anything she puts her mind to,” the moral heft of this single option given momentum by her father’s imminent death from cancer. But […] |
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