Category: Stories
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The Least of These by BV Lawson
Listen to this story on the podcast. “Diplomacy is to do and say / the nastiest thing in the nicest way.”—Isaac Goldberg She was a single mother from a micro-town in southwest Virginia who’d never had a single lucky break until she landed a job as secretary at the French Embassy in D.C. At least, she…
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How Green Was My Valet by John H. Dromey
Listen to this story on the podcast. It’s the familiar things you never notice that sometimes matter most. Although perhaps not young enough or tall enough to become a top model, and decidedly not svelte enough to squeeze her ample charms into the impossibly-small confines of size zero haute couture gowns, the smartly-dressed woman nonetheless…
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Slice by Tom Barlow
Listen to this story on the podcast. Golf sometimes spoils more than just a good walk. He was seated on the floor, snoring softly, outside my office door when I arrived that morning. He had no appointment. The man appeared to have at least a decade on me, mid-50’s, built like a stump with a…
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Loveable Alan Atcliffe by S.R. Mastrantone
Some people are so nice, it just seems too good to be true. Loveable Alan Atcliffe: that’s what they call him. Like Mrs. Montgomery, who waited for the breakdown people for nearly an hour in the dark of winter 2001, before Alan pulled over in his taxi and changed her tyre in just five minutes.…
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Um Piexe Grande by Patti Abbott
Listen to this story on the podcast. “Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.” — William Shakespeare Though his eyes were squeezed tight, Gas could hear Loretta standing in their bedroom doorway, his lunch bag crinkling in her hand. He also knew from a variety of signs and smells…