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Scott Lambridis: Doris

June 11, 2014 by PBQ

Despite what the newspaper said, O’Malley knew the true cause of the accident. Inside the trolley, in the periphery of his consciousness and beyond his recognition, an image had formed of this sort of duck, a white sort of duck whose everything that should have been yellow was instead a pale pink like a young […]

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Fiction, Fiction 89, Issue 89 Tagged With: Contributors 89, Fiction, Fiction 89, Scott Lambridis

Nell Joslin: The Lesson

June 9, 2014 by PBQ

A child stood alone in the large foyer of a high-ceilinged home, chewing a lock of her hair. She was wearing a winter coat with the hood tied under her chin. On the floor beside her she had dropped several leaves of sheet music. Leading off of the foyer were French doors whose panes were […]

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Fiction, Fiction 89, Issue 89 Tagged With: Contributors 89, Fiction, Fiction 89, Nell Joslin

E.A. Durden: In the Prison Garden

June 9, 2014 by PBQ

First the German prisoner promised her carnations. “What color do you like?” he said. His English was passable. He showed too many teeth. He had no business smiling at an old maid. “Can you sign for this?” Edith said, and held out her clipboard. She was delivering bread from her family’s bakery to the prison […]

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Fiction, Fiction 89, Issue 89 Tagged With: Contributors 89, E.A. Durden, Fiction, Fiction 89

Gina Bruno: On the Phone

June 9, 2014 by PBQ

From my bedroom I heard a thick wad of papers slap the linoleum floor in our kitchen. My mom’s voice followed, a hiss-scream that said, “This fucking country.” It was a crisp October afternoon and my mom had just come home to a letter from United States Immigration. I looked across the space that separated […]

Filed Under: Contributors 89, Fiction, Fiction 89, Issue 89 Tagged With: Contributors 89, Fiction, Fiction 89, Gina Bruno

Sean Beaudoin: The Show

February 20, 2014 by PBQ

      Things really pick up after Ukezie transfers to West Boylston. Suddenly Coach is like RUN, and instead of half-assing around the bleachers, we RUN RUN RUN. Then Coach goes JUMP, and instead of hands-in-sweatpants, we JUMP JUMP JUMP, still a good ten feet behind Ukezie, who goes through every drill like buttering toast.       The first […]

Filed Under: Contributors 78, Fiction, Fiction 78, Issue 78 Tagged With: Contributors 78, Fiction, Fiction 78, Sean Beaudoin

Aaron Landsman: Lysis

July 11, 2013 by PBQ

At 11½, while the boys around me were turning muscled and thick voiced, I stayed knock-kneed. Whenever I spoke, a battle raged in my throat between the forces of alto and bass, with neither side able to claim victory for long. My father the Philosophy professor was my best friend. We lived together on Maple […]

Filed Under: Contributors 88, Fiction, Fiction 88, Issue 88 Tagged With: Aaron Landsman, Contributors 88, Fiction, Fiction 88

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