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Scott Kaukonen: The Physics of a Bomb

July 10, 2013 by PBQ

Every time you close your eyes you see shrapnel and shards of broken glass and razor-sharp fragments of iron and it’s all flying toward you at a thousand miles an hour. You don’t think, you only react, and you launch your body into space in the direction where you believe your daughter stands, the last […]

Filed Under: Contributors 88, Fiction, Fiction 88, Issue 88 Tagged With: Contributors 88, Fiction, Fiction 88, Scott Kaukonen

Lisa Sharon: Breakaway

July 10, 2013 by PBQ

I’ve been thinking about punctuated equilibrium. Just the name is cool. The theory is that not all evolution takes place slowly and incrementally. Sometimes a group from a larger population breaks off—maybe the group gets isolated because of a flood or something—and because the population is small, the individuals undergo rapid evolutionary change. When they’re […]

Filed Under: Contributors 88, Fiction, Fiction 88, Issue 88 Tagged With: Contributors 88, Fiction, Fiction 88, Lisa Sharon

Emma Smith-Stevens: The Boulevard

July 10, 2013 by PBQ

      Kat took a faint bit of pleasure in dialing Mark’s number, a man whom she’d never met, from inside of his own home. She was lying on his loveseat, legs draped over its wooden arm. She wondered where he was, but knew she wouldn’t ask, and what he looked like, because there were no pictures […]

Filed Under: Contributors 88, Fiction, Fiction 88, Issue 88 Tagged With: Contributors 88, Emma Smith-Stevens, Fiction, Fiction 88

Elisabeth Geier: It’s the Mud, It’s the Mud

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

The summer the Mormons came to visit, my brothers and I took off before they had unpacked.  The twins got my room.  Uncle William took Mark and Andrew’s room at the end of the hall, with Ettie, his second Mormon wife.  Second as in re-married, not additional.  They weren’t that kind of Mormon.  The kind […]

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Fiction, Fiction 86, Issue 86 Tagged With: Contributors 86, Elisabeth Geier, Fiction, Fiction 86

Christine Fadden: How We Stay Good Girls

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

I told my stepmother I was spending the night at Carla’s house and Carla told her parents she was spending the night at mine. Then we went with the boys up the mountain. The boys were brothers and—for a while—Carla and I were like sisters. Neither of us wanted to have sex, which is contrary […]

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Fiction, Fiction 86, Issue 86 Tagged With: Christine Fadden, Contributors 86, Fiction, Fiction 86

Jeffrey Colvin: Victuals

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

The teeth on the BSB-133 blade are induction heated, diamond crusted, sharpened to a flesh cutting five microns. When securing the ends of the blade to the spine of the hack saw, if you do not pay proper attention, nasty gashes sometimes happen. Bartholomew Evers (he knows the hazards) removes the blade from its cardboard […]

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Fiction, Fiction 86, Issue 86 Tagged With: Contributors 86, Fiction, Fiction 86, Jeffrey Colvin

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