Drinking You In: Fiction by Chip Livingston
Drinking You In
by Chip Livingston
Peter hopped into his VW Rabbit and popped the hood. Inhaling the heavy aroma of cedar in the ashtray still...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave: Nonfiction by Ephraim de...
Hummingbird Pays a Visit to Jamie’s Grave
by Ephraim de Francisco Solanas
I was certain that storing Jamie’s ashes on a bookshelf in the bedroom was...
As If: Fiction by Norman Belanger
What time is it?” He sighs, drowsy from a day at the beach.
I move over so he can put down his bag. “The clock...
Ribbons: Fiction by Jameson Currier
Editor's note: Originally featured in the September/October 1995 issue of A&U.
Ribbons
by Jameson Currier
For years Janet had trained to be an actress, taken classes in...
Nightstand: Fiction by James Magruder
Nightstand
by James Magruder
"How soon can you be out of here?”
Asked Louis, my husband of two years. I had come home to Philadelphia from a...
The Pond: Fiction by John Whittier Treat
The Pond
by John Whittier Treat
Alan died on a hot day, but it had been hot all summer. Steve wasn’t there when the long fart...
The Inanimate Me: Fiction by Martin Shaw
The Inanimate Me
There’s only one rotten apple in this hospital, an old-school homophobic male nurse who’s pheromonic orchestration of testosterone is thwarted by the...
The Unseen: A Short Story Excerpt by Joseph Jess Rey
The Unseen (a short story excerpt)
by Joseph Jess Rey
Los Angeles, January 1988
The deaths began at the start of the decade. Five gay men were...
Good Humor: Fiction by John Whittier Treat
Good Humor
by John Whittier Treat
Michael remembered watching his mother Betty from a distance, as if she wasn’t his mother at all but somehow a...
The Line: Fiction by Philip Dean Walker
The Line
by Philip Dean Walker
Michael sits alone in the front row of the balcony at the empty Shubert Theatre looking down at the line....