Tag: NLR fiction
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Mars Renaissance: Eight Things a Man Should Know How to Do
Fiction by Tim Conrad They are sending Lisa and me down to the capital for a statewide charity function that our office doesn’t care about. We’ve been invited during our peak season, and our boss Gretchen tells us that someone needs to go as a show of solidarity.
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The Convert
Fiction by Dani Heinemeyer +++Judith starts believing in God after watching the History Channel special, “The Real Face of Jesus.” She sits alone in her living room, the television projecting faint blue holograms onto the coffee table’s mahogany surface.
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Argos
Fiction by Clare Wilson The bartender’s t-shirt declared, Caution, Hot! +++Marvin eyed the splashy script as she poured him another double of Bulleit. He downed it in one gulp, before she had reached her next customer.
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The First Annual Landsome Goat and Garden Party
Fiction by B.C. Edwards Every attempt to venture into the kitchen or deeper ended in a polite but firm herding back to the porch. The unlit living room and dark upstairs remained grey mysteries and whatever secrets were locked in the Landsome cellar, all the unearthed Spanish gold, the nuclear codes, the disembodied murdered vagrants,…
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The Shoulder
Fiction by Nick Fuller Byllis was one of those two gas station towns in vassalage to the highway. The gas stations were built on a short hill in vast flat country and were right across from each other just off the exit.
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Malcom Strickland’s Dreams
Fiction by Ethan Warren “I didn’t like the way things seemed, but the way they seemed was the way they were, so that’s everything”