fiction, poetry, a little craziness & more June 2010
Gemini Magazine
| FICTION "THE TIGER" by A.N. Hegde "What do you want?” I asked. I was expecting a roar accompanied by bad, meaty breath; instead, the tiger spoke to me. MORE |
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| PAUL BARTON "WALKING DOWN THE ROAD" I’m walking down the road, and I see this bag, man, it’s a blue bank bag, man, with a zipper and even from here I can see it’s bulging, man. MORE |
| EVELYN KRIEGER "TWENTY-TEN" What Miles found disturbing was that none of the other adults in the house that evening seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary about the girl. They remained inside the bubble of their... MORE |
| HALLIE RUNDLE "ASPHALT SKY" There are two policemen and a shit ton of nattering bitches clogging what my bitch landlady calls the “parlor.” I am told by a breathless girl with huge eyes that some girl I don’t know has killed herself. MORE |
| DAVID DARRACOTT "CLAIRE'S RABBITS" It was August, and nobody wore much more than a T-shirt and shorts outside. Yet she had on a pair of red rubber boots that went up to her knees. MORE |
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| POETRY "SPRECKEN ZEE DUTCH" by Smokey Miles I heard in Holland they serve pot in the local saloons MORE |
| DENISE HEINZE "TRICK" Nadine took a breath and carefully wrapped the athletic tape tightly across her meager bosoms. MORE |
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| SHORT STORY "THE GREATEST FLAMENCO DANCER IN ALL FLYDOM" by Michael Kechula ““Members of the jury,” said the giant horse fly, “before you stands a most despicable example of the human species: a serial fly killer.” MORE |
| POEM "WRONG WAY" by Aurora M. Lewis My mind trapped in panic/ A needle hitting the scratched/ Groove on John Coltrane's... MORE |
| SHORT STORY "THE TEABERRY FORTUNE" by Philip Bernhardt “Chicks dig it when they hear that I am a private investigator. Let’s say I’m at a nightclub and I see some long legged blonde... MORE |
| FLASH FICTION "PIE" by Beverly Akerman Best pie I ever made? Oh, that was on an early summer’s day, like I said, more’n forty years ago now. Ain’t never made another. MORE |
| SHORT STORY "THE SHOWER" by Sharla Benson "I know you like your ‘foo foo’ fancy ways, but don’t go round there shamin’ me, actin’ like your mess don’t stank. You hear me girl?” MORE |
| FLASH FICTION "CHOCOLATE" by Nomi Liron And down at the end, candy. No. She had promised herself not to even go down that aisle. MORE |
| MICRO POEM "PROZAC & PAIN" by Steve Widdows Dark glasses/ even in the rain/hide the eyes MORE |
| SHORT STORY "WAYWARD CONCEPTION" by Mary J. Daley It was crazy really, this handsome dying pilot down on his knees proposing to her. She had never received a proposal before. MORE |
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