The doctor walked into the waiting room. I could tell he was important because everyone stopped what they were doing. I had been making noise with my toy tank, blowing up imaginary soldiers, but when the doctor entered my mother…
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October, 2011 – Volume 1 – Issue 3
The October, 2011 issue of The Washington Pastime includes the following stories: The Ressurectionist, by Mollie Gower [HORROR] It’s Raining Men, by Ada Hoffmann [HUMOR] The Man Without, by Terence Kuch [FANTASY] The Ghosts in the Gondola, by Nick Medina…
The Ghosts in the Gondola, by Nick Medina
Mist floated down from the mountains. It swirled around the flags hanging from the wire stretched between the balcony of Jeffrey Cooper’s hotel room and the building across the cobblestoned street. Three flags, each depicting something different, hung from the…
The Man Without, by Terence Kuch
It was July when I saw the first wolf, a gray male, lapping water from the creek. He saw me and made to dart away, but then stopped and just stared. It was about time they’d lost their fear of…
It’s Raining Men, by Ada Hoffmann
The Felicitas had always been a good place for a coffee: small, bright, and clean, with high chrome counters. Bakarne liked to stop there with her work friends, Carla and Elisabet. The three of them laughed as they put together…
The Resurrectionist, by Mollie Gower
We thought she was just another mortal, come to remind us of what we lost. She couldn’t see us, touch us, or sense us; however she could hear us. That had stopped us in our tracks. Most humans think they…
September, 2011 – Volume 1 – Issue 2
The September, 2011 issue of The Washington Pastime includes the following stories: In the Remaining Light, by Rodney J. Smith [FANTASY] The Panic, by Aidan Ryan [HUMOR] Tremors, by Dave Ervin [LITERARY] The Paw, by Shawn Proctor [HORROR] Click HERE…
The Paw, by Shawn Proctor
Dad waited until our car had left the turnpike before he told me the bad news about my mom’s surgery. “The doctors couldn’t save her hand,” he said. “They had to replace it with something else.” “With something else,” I…
Tremors, by Dave Ervin
I did just as your mother said. I got a drink, just one, and drove around. I needed to clear my head, cool off. I must have been on the road a couple of hours, aimlessly circling the city, my…
The Panic, by Aidan Ryan
It wasn’t amnesia; I remembered everything, my name, my wife’s name, my kids’ birthdays, and all the twists and turns on life’s long and winding road that had led me to where I was and what I had become at…
