I hide in the shallow ditch between the deep front yard and the blacktop that cuts through the neighborhood. Where Ashley lives two streets over, a girl I’m friends with while we’re here, and past Bar...

When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

You are an eight-foot painting in a gallery in Mallorca. Your stomach is swollen with creatures inside. Animals with gnashing teeth and eyes big like Muppets. Something you’d see under the microscope....

Stale beer and cigarettes. Chick-fil-a grease on my brown polyester uniform. Parkingdeck lights and shadows. His blue pinto with the yellow hood. His eyes the same blue as hisGyro Wrap uniform. The…

The news from California is clear, but we don’t want to see it. It’s too confounding, big, complex. But we can sense the danger

Flash Fiction by Avitus B. Carle 978-0-913785-79-9 Paper November 2024

The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.