The August 2011 Issue of The Washington Pastime includes the following stories: Other People’s Trains, by Richard Luftig [ROMANCE] The Book Sniffers, by Annie Neugebauer [FLASH-FICTION] Cheating the Shroud, by JC Hemphill [FANTASY] Hold the Mayo, by Diane Arrelle [SCI-FI]…
“I remember when this place had real live servers,” Edgar snapped and watched the frown lines around Gregory’s mouth deepen. “I know, Dad,” Gregory said,”you’ve told me enough times.” Edgar noticed his son’s gaze never flickered from the menu board…
Hi Everyone! As the new year is upon us, it is time for a New Year’s Resolution. The Washington Pastime is constantly working to deliver better fiction, quicker, for you, the reader. Today we make the announcement that we will…
All I do is stare. All day, every day, I stare at another face. The face never changes, it simply stares back. Our fate is the same. We remain pitted in a never-ending staring contest. The real kicker is neither…
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…
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…
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…
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