Kimber held the magazine open in front of her even as she eyed the dictionary in her periphery. She didn’t want to raise too much suspicion by looking directly at it. The plan was to pretend to peruse a periodical—preferably…
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Other People’s Trains, by Richard Luftig
There aren’t many AM stations on the air in Kansas at 3:00 in the morning. Sitting in his car with the motor idling outside the train depot in Topeka, Alan Butler was learning this from hard experience. The best he…
November, 2011 – Volume 1 – Issue 4
In the November, 2011 issue of The Washington Pastime includes the following stories: Musca Domestica, by James Valvis [HUMOR] Ace of Spades, by Patrick Anderson [SCI-FI] Ice House, by Steve Hicks [LITERARY] Wolves Come Knockin’, by Charlie Bookout [FANTASY] Click…
Wolves Come Knockin’, by Charlie Bookout
“Poverty is an animal— a beast, really.” The baby’s parents were certain to mistake her warning for mere babbling, but she continued, “And if it ever gets its teeth in you, it will devour you, bones and all.” # “Come…
Ice House, by Steve Hicks
It was the coldest day of the year when the furnace gave up and died. It was Thursday. Daniel and his wife were at work and his daughters at school when it happened, so no one knew until he returned…
Ace of Spades, by Patrick Anderson
Hektor’s body floats by the window in front of the control panel every four hours. There’s an alarm on the watches NASA gave us before we came up here, set to the twenty-four hour UTC time standard. According to the…
Musca Domestica, by James Valvis
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…
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…
