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Julia Conover: The Voucher

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

“It’s Marge from accounting,” says the voice on the phone. “Oh, hi Marge.” I try to remember who Marge is. Is she the pudgy woman, about thirty-five, with the thin lips and grey-flecked sausage curls who stares at me in the elevator? Or the skinny redhead with pasty skin who always wears a Flyers jacket? […]

Filed Under: Contributors 81, Fiction, Fiction 81, Issue 81 Tagged With: Contributors 81, Fiction, Fiction 81, Julia Conover

Eric D. Anderson: Strawberry

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

Hector came out of the gas station and saw that his date had driven off. Perhaps that’s it, he thought, perhaps it’s the Milky Way in my hand. Perhaps that’s the dealbreaker. Who eats these anyway, besides children? He stood on the curb and ran through the catalog of possibilities that could explain this development—a […]

Filed Under: Contributors 81, Fiction, Fiction 81, Issue 81 Tagged With: Contributors 81, Eric D. Anderson, Fiction, Fiction 81

Lisa Heiserman Perkins: Tanner’s First Deer

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

For five days running now, ever since I gave Tanner a 30-30 Winchester for his eighth birthday, my wife, Fleur, has been acting furious with me. I explained to her that all the Derochers got their first rifle when they turned eight, going back to when we lived in Perrier, France. Lately, because of the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 82, Fiction, Fiction 82, Issue 82 Tagged With: Contributors 82, Fiction, Fiction 82, Lisa Heiserman

Peter E. S. Nichols: America’s Oldest Living Published Poet

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

He had a reputation to uphold. There were two books of his poetry and a play, the latter still occasionally studied at a college or two. He’d survived to the age of ninety-four, so far. On the Maine island to which he and Eleasa relocated twenty years ago, they’d bought the defunct town library, and […]

Filed Under: Contributors 82, Fiction, Fiction 82, Issue 82 Tagged With: Contributors 82, Fiction, Fiction 82, Peter E. S. Nichols

Todd Jackson: The Story of Eugene, from the Nickel Gospels

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

A great number of attempts exist to capture the story of Nickel and the days of William St. I hold a bead on this also, but will for the first time, properly compile the story of these events, as they occurred correctly, from the start. During the days of the William St. Strip there was […]

Filed Under: Contributors 82, Fiction, Fiction 82, Issue 82 Tagged With: Contributors 82, Fiction, Fiction 82, Todd Jackson

Emily Fridlund: Lake Arcturus Lodge

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

It wasn’t my husband that wanted the bear, it was me.  Erich has always been so generous, so optimistic about people.  When we opened for business, the lodge was empty as a lost castle, but he just said, “People will come when they do.”  He talked like this sometimes, which is one of the reasons […]

Filed Under: Contributors 82, Fiction, Fiction 82, Issue 82 Tagged With: Contributors 82, Emily Fridlund, Fiction, Fiction 82

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