From the OWC Community
Janet Berry followed you on your way to the bus, on top of you, breathing down your neck as you walked ahead like a little egg.
I turned to watch the scene like everybody else, only I wasn’t laughing. I summoned the courage to scowl and shake my head as I turned and walked faster...
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FROM “THE DAY WE DELAY”
(a thematic tome of stories by Michael J Seidlinger)
A single knock brings with it the sounding of a deliverer’s song. No more than a few seconds pass since it was pressed yet the doorbell still rings. A muted, delayed ting, an amplified echo merely augments the tension and anticipation of...
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The morning frost places an ache into the stitches across my chest. A faint taste of vanilla on my lips should be proof that this has been dreamt to life. I turn towards the window to see snowflakes falling in a curious shade of purple. Either the sun is up, or our neighborhood chemical...
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After killing a little time shooting 8-ball and discussing God around a beer-soaked bar with a bunch of hipsters and mad bikers, I drift out of “Lucky’s Lounge” and into the dull, rainy streets of a Savannah Saturday night. The neon donut in the window of the all-night café across the street blinks zero…...
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First, there was ANTISOCIAL, a fine poetry chapbook by the equally fine David Blaine. Next up, Caleb J Ross’s CHARACTERED PIECES: STORIES. Now available for preorder! Only $7.
Comprised of 8 stories and a bit of blood, CHARACTERED PIECES is “a multifarious patchwork of despair” (Daniel Casebeer, editor of Pear Noir!), and is the first...
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