Category: Fiction

After much consideration, after several soul-searching days and sleepless nights, I have decided to accept the role of Polonius in the Watertown Community Players production of Hamlet. I assume the role is still mine, despite the little incident after my audition. I have been reading the play almost ceaselessly. I have many ideas. § Act… Continue reading “A Letter to the Watertown Community Players” by Ryan Napier

“The seven techniques of successful bodhisattvas,” she said. “What would Siddhartha barbecue?” I said. Eleanor Eames, two months before she dumped me for my failures, she and I were in a hotel, a real fleabag joint in upstate New York. We were there for the wedding of a friend of hers from the prestigious publishing… Continue reading “What Would John the Evangelist Do?” by Thomas Israel Hopkins

Two seats over from me, a boney woman bounces her knees in a rapid beat. She sighs each time the bus slows for a pedestrian, checks the time on her cell, and returns to an impatient rhythm. I see a garden between the sliver of a strap from her black tank and the off-the-shoulder dip… Continue reading “Sakura” by Lori A. May