It was the memory – the image in his mind – of the dead dog on the floor of the car that …
Time Change
Written By Rob Wilcher
The group of professors and post-doctoral men and women stood in the makeshift hangar nervously listening to approaching beat of the helicopters …
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The Outcast
Written By Rob Wilcher
The Outcast Chapter 1 What I remember. Her face. Her richly tanned cheeks, smoother than the beach would ever be, straddled …
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Orange
Written By Rob Wilcher
The girl sat to his right on the bus shelter seat, her arms wrapped tightly around the backpack on her lap. The …
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Barking Mad
Written By Rob Wilcher
Adam looked groggily at the bedside clock. It was 3am. The dogs were barking. Why were the dogs barking? He lumbered out …
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The True Alchemist
Written By Rob Wilcher
On Thursday Amanda and Eva invited me to put up for your reading pleasure the sonnet my mother-in-law requested. She was a …
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Lost Embrace
Written By Rob Wilcher
The old man rapped his walking stick along the sterile lino. In his eighties, slightly bent with bowlegged knees swollen from past …
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The Ring
Written By Rob Wilcher
“Jessica Margaret Adams,” he said. “I love you.” He gazed up at her from his knees, his face vulnerable, his heart exposed. …
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Vile Sunflowers
Written By Amanda Hemmings
The wood cuts into the boy’s bare thighs. It’s an old chair, splintery, and the rope around his ankles chafes. Across the …
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Boardwalk
Written By Rob Wilcher
The beach was a balm at this time of night. Emptied of its daytime guests, it gave him solace. He had space …
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