Tag: NLR fiction
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The Best Light Fades
At Mom’s Place I wore a nametag that said Angel and waited on a group of teenagers. They poured ketchup, mustard, mayo, and watery Coke, into a glass and dared one another to drink it. A couple of guys from the Navy Yard showed up for midnight milkshakes, my landlord among them. He was happy…
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Princess Manor
It felt like a violation to be in Princess Manor alone. It felt like a violation to be a woman there at all, wearing floppy jeans and a wrinkled sweater. Men looked at me as I walked to a booth at the rear, then averted their eyes, like I was a living person in the…
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Candelaria
Fiction by Michael Mark The funeral was stodgy and the minister had as much to say about the real Johnny as I did about the real Woodrow Wilson. He talked about living brightly like it was a certain kind of apple—like there were many types of apples in the orchard, but you knew the good…
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Late Spring
Jim McDermott, Jim McDermott fiction, Jim McDermott short stories, New Limestone Review, NLR fictionFiction by Jim McDermott My wife and I had just moved back to the States from Ireland then. I was about to turn forty-one. Our longest try at living somewhere other than home had brought us to another dead end.
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The House of the Living Rock
Fiction by Vinny Corsaro There was a gift shop inside Mount Acatenango. A real life gift shop, with fridge magnets, five-dollar sunglasses, and souvenir bobble heads. Some people might find it a little disingenuous to have one in an ancient holy site, but I didn’t.
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Sum of Our Parts
Fiction by Tracy Maxwell Jon never wanted to leave. He’d stirred earlier, happier than he could remember.
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Kokomo
Fiction by Doug Crandell Our mother had been to Kokomo three times in one year.
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Something’s Wrong with David
Fiction by Linda A. Prince Norah waited six months for her husband to return from Vietnam. Every morning, she wondered if David was alive, or half-alive, or if he was a corpse, or the remains of a man who couldn’t be identified because David was always losing things and had most likely lost his ID…