A Pius Man: A Holy ThrillerA Pius Thriller
By Curtis Edmonds
Prologue: A Pious Obsession David Gerrity had lived with eighty-five years of obsession. He had been obsessed with learning, which brought him into Harvard; history, which provided him with his Ph.D.; and, later, a wide range of other subjects, disciplining himself to no more than three or four obsessions at a time. His family was […]
Chapter 1: A Girl, A Dog, A Boat
By Marina Fontaine
A Girl, A Dog, A Boat Fiction By Audie Cockings Chapter 1: Listen to Your Mother She told me this would happen. At sixty-eight years old, my mom, Flossie, hit the nail on the head, yet again. She was right about Andy, Marc, James, Julian, Miguel, and now Todd. I should have stuck with serial […]
From MILF to GILF: Entry #113
By Audie Cockings
Dear Diary, So now I’m a grandmother. Changed my match.com status from MILF to GILF. Not changing my AFF status, tho. Huma says Anthony told her that nobody on there looks past the pictures. Let’s hope Charlotte got her genes from me and not from her other grandmother, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. First, the old bat married […]
THE FIRE TRAIL, CHAPTER 6, Anna
By Audie Cockings
Chapter Six, Anna Around the time that Jessica met with her faculty advisor, Zachary ran the Fire Trail, and old Father Nate fed his cats, Anna Novak Aguilar, fifty-seven and trim, but not as trim as she wanted to be, settled herself in the driver’s seat of her old Volvo and headed for her three-times-a-week […]
Week One: The Piketty Line
By Audie Cockings
It was my first day in Washington, D.C., and I was trying extra hard to be cool. I knew I was overly excited about taking my first steps towards smashing the corporate infrastructure and building a more socially just world, and it was a struggle to calm myself down. On the inside, I was a […]
First Annual Politically Incorrect PSA Video Contest
By Dan Melson
Calling All Filmmakers! Liberty Island is hosting our first short film contest. Your assignment: to produce a politically-incorrect Public Service Announcement to encourage behavior that would scandalize polite opinion. We are looking for entries which are irreverent, funny, and borderline offensive to the thin-skinned and uber-left. Think "Animals are Delicious"; "Fur is Warmer than Polyester"; […]
Meet PreTeena
By David Churchill Barrow
Some people want to be doctors when they grow up. Some want to be actors, or astronauts, or teachers, or any number of other worthy things. I wanted to be a cartoonist. I must have, because when I was two, I drew hundreds of tiny little happy faces inside the hall closet of my parents’ […]
That’s No Moon, That’s A Free Market
By Stephanie Souders
I am a gray pixel. That is, I am a middle aged video gamer who has been playing games for quite a few decades now, really, all the way back to the early days of the Atari 2600. And I have seen a lot of gaming trends over those years. A lot. But there is […]
Comrade Cruises
By Lari Vine
The prequel to this story, Wherever You Go, can be read here. The cruise ship was so much bigger than Emmy expected, she couldn’t even think of a word for it. Gargantuan was one, but that sounded like a giant tarantula. Titanic was downright terrifying, for a girl about to set sail. "Colossal," she decided, […]
Finish Line
By Steven W. Aunan
When he reached for the beer the waitress had just set in front of him, he spotted the splatters of dried blood on his bare arm. Up and down the inside, and a larger stain at the base of his thumb. Yes, some were dried points of paint from his job, but there was blood, […]
