Category: Ink Blots

November 25, 2019

By Darlene Shuya Peggy’s mother was having a very sad day. Peggy wanted to cheer up her mother. It was two days before Christmas; Peggy, aged six, was shopping with her Aunt May for a Christmas present for Peggy’s mother. All the other children Peggy’s age were waiting anxiously to see what they would get […]

September 30, 2019

By Audrey Gauthier The low-slung red Mazda convertible eased out of the Best Western Plus parking lot and into the outskirts of Fort Bragg. Although it was 9:30 in the morning, the California sun, in late August, felt hot and direct. Earlier that morning, the weatherman on the hotel breakfast room television had promised a […]

August 30, 2019

Here I go again, wearing flannel pyjamas in August, covered by my terry-cloth bathrobe and wrapped in a blanket, lying on the wet grass and looking up into the night sky. I was able to stumble along in the darkened yard without tripping or bumping into anything along the way, before positioning myself in the […]

June 13, 2019

by Wayne Nylin Though the toilets in the far end of each section of the basement (boys to the right, girls to the left) were hidden by a wooden partition, the sharp tang of pine tar gave their location away. Often there’d be a high school kid or two down there throwing a ball around […]