Author
Chip Houser
Chip Houser is a recovering architect who currently studies creative writing at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. He and his wife's domestic circus features three fourlegged beasts, none of whom are allowed to cross streets alone. This is his first publication.
Fair Aliquant
In fair Aliquant, where the soils are rich and the brooks clear, where the woods are filled with game and the mountains silver-veined, where the laws are just and all citizens are treated as equals, the executioner stands beside her scarred block. Behind the executioner, the…
Flip Side
Squatting on the curb in front of a boarded-up duplex, a woman rocks back and forth, arms crossed, arguing with herself. "You were driving too fast!" "He should have looked both ways!" The sun is shining brightly. Her freckled flesh is sunburned where it presses through tears in…