It’s lonely up here. The others used to say you get used to it but now they’re gone too. Once upon a time this place was a lush utopia. Now it’s become barren, a patchy wasteland. There are few other signs of life. You start to lose hope after a…

Sixteen-year-old Rory Wiggins stood at attention in the entrance of Cicero’s Pizzeria. His light-pink dress shirt was drenched, along with the thighs of his khaki pants. Black grease from his bicycle chain branded the cuff of his right ankle. The hostess, a platinum blond with pink braces, appeared from the…

Johnny woke up on Saturday at 4:00 a.m. feeling the overwhelming need to take a shit. The evening before had been poker night — seven-card stud with a ten-dollar buy-in. Everyone brought a case of beer to the occasion. It was one of those increasingly rare nights of laughs between…

Once upon a time There was a boy Who liked a girl. He crushed on her from afar. She was different from all the other Cookie-cutter girls, unique and Beautiful in her own way. A force of nature, which Left the young boy in awe, But maybe also slightly intimidated, Unsure how to approach The girl of his sweetest dreams…

By Stephen M. Tomic — She was a physical specimen, so gifted and so fast that some speculated scientists had made her in a lab. She never juiced or cheated, but she had feet like flippers and muscular shoulders the size of small boulders. Her childhood dream was to become an Olympic champion someday. Nothing…