Shehrazade Zafar-Arif
In her heavy dress she had only been able to twirl, but in that twirl he thought she must have held the entire world under her spinning skirts. It’s hard to believe, in the face of such vivid movement and life, that by dawn, the world will be gone, and no one will ever dance again.
Read MorePatrick Strickland
All around me, football players, girls from the volleyball team, let tears stream down their faces. In their telling, their souls rambled. Glided up and down the streets around town. Shivered across the Piggly Wiggly parking lot. Drifted past the soft, purple glow of the football stadium’s lights.
Read MoreE.C. Gannon
Together, we counted down in whispers, and neither of us said anything for the first two minutes of the new year. I wasn’t allowed to hang up first.
Read MoreKatie Strine
She picked up things around his room that he had left behind. Cheap tchotkes, sure, but they were reminders of something. Was he packing anything sentimental? She put a snow globe onto a brown sweater.
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