Sam McManus

August 4, 2016October 12, 2019

Flash Fiction Challenge #7 (Driving South)

2Pac’s “California Love” blasting from its subwoofers, the SUV roars down the Pacific Coast Highway, doing eighty in a sixty-five, its windows vibrating from both the acceleration and the sheer wall of sound. Andrea sits in the back seat on the passenger side, lost in her own world, caught between the wreckage of her relationship … Continue reading Flash Fiction Challenge #7 (Driving South)

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016

Standing Between

She stands in that space between ecstasy and agony, forced to make an impossible decision between two men who equally have her heart, or maybe not as equally as she’s led everyone else to believe. Because if it were as balanced as she has hinted at, then this, this would be impossible. But we, her … Continue reading Standing Between

July 31, 2016

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July 29, 2016

Boarders, Volume 11

“I will not rest ’til I lay down my head. I’m gonna go — in the house of stone and light. I shall not cry for the blind man I leave behind, when I go — in the house of stone and light.” ~Martin Page As I watch the very real progress on our house … Continue reading Boarders, Volume 11

July 27, 2016

10 Ways From Sunday

There’s a thin line between wanting your children to be safely quarantined against the harsh world and wanting them to be prepared to hold their own in a landscape that is shifting, and increasingly for the worse. Someone said “MF’er” in front of my children the other day, and I wanted to slap her 10 … Continue reading 10 Ways From Sunday

July 25, 2016

Flash Fiction Challenge #6 (Wild Child)

The sign outside of Felix’s bedroom door said, “Keep Out,” and he meant it. His mother found out the hard way when she walked in without knocking the other night and found him smoking out the window. She believes smoking is of the devil, so she had a righteous fit, and he turned fifteen different … Continue reading Flash Fiction Challenge #6 (Wild Child)