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KILLDEERby Ted Ludzik The tires on the rental car crackled over the shoulder’s gravel. Ellen killed the engine. The silence laid as wide as the surrounding Saskatchewan plains. The skyline was a blazing blue, broken by long bone-white clouds. The…

I’M SCARED OF THE HALLWAY by Tamika Thompson My two-year-old runs barefoot through the hall, his soles like thunder as they pound the oak planks.  “Mommy, I’m scared of the hallway.”  He exits the dim space, closes his eyes and…

INVASIVE SPECIESby Stephen Howard It was the green glow creeping in through the curtains that had Cassie restless. Something the size of a dog scuttled around their pond. Bright green and frog-like, but a giant frog, a frog you could…

COLD INSIDEby D.A. Cairns “They call this reality TV?” said Eddy, as he lifted a can of Victoria Bitter to his mouth. He dipped his head so he could reach. “They wouldn’t know reality if it slapped them in the…

POPS’ GIRL by Rebecca Rowland Pops sits in his truck in the snow-covered parking lot, waiting for me to emerge each afternoon at 2:45, sharp. There’s a bus that stops in front of our apartment—a yellow school bus, not public transportation—but…

THE SUSURRATION OF LEG AND MANDIBLE by Ben Serna-Grey He was watching, silent observer of the rabbit in the road. Its nose twitched in small waves, each wave sending out a rivulet of dread as the inevitable creeped upon the…