55//FICTIONS#5
“555-3310” A frantic flutter of punchdrunk fingers crossing numbers one by one. “Pick up, pick up, pick up, please…” The cat stretches itself against the…
“555-3310” A frantic flutter of punchdrunk fingers crossing numbers one by one. “Pick up, pick up, pick up, please…” The cat stretches itself against the…
(“EVERYTHING”) It was the sign that set the whole thing in motion. (“YOU KNOW”) I kept repeating the words all day, all week. On scraps…
That summer vegetable prices shot through the roof. Across the aisle Karen noticed the green turtleneck (third time in an hour). Was he following her?…
It’d sat through the night on top of the fence separating the backyard from an empty plot of grass where it usually ate its fill….
“You’re not gonna get away with this”, Jeremy screamed. The heat of their conversation gathering pace across the phonebooth windows. As if five days and…