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Spotlighting - by Ira Sukrungruang

Act One
He likes the stage, my father. Doesn’t mind the blinding spotlight or the blush coating his dark brown cheeks, his skin like hardened cement. The makeup, the dancing doesn’t affect his masculinity because he still bats eyes at other women dancers, other wives. ...more

A Year on the Prairie - Louis E. Bourgeois

A Long Time Ago It Rained
We ran through the forest at top speed with our pellet rifles in hand....

The Faith of Our Fathers - by Rebecca Dickson

Anyone who grew up in the American West knows that tumbleweeds really do exist, and they really do tumble. The unwinking sun bleaches them a bright blond, and they are barbed and stinging to a kid’s bare legs. They leave their mark ...more

Blood and Luck - Becky Bradway

I once knew a dog, a snappish mongrel who obeyed only two people: my mother and me. Her silken honey-colored fur shed into tumbleweeds that rolled around the floor. ...