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…
“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…
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…
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…
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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