ATOMIC TOM By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved A Short Story from the novel BOOK OF O’KELLS: NATURE OF THE BEAST The world knows Atomic Tom O’Kell was a hellish [...]
Hello, it’s me, your friendly neighborhood writer, and I have a problem with a short story I just wrote. I don’t know what’s missing and I need your help to figure it out. The story [...]
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved From the beginning I was supposed to play football at Kent Abbey. Nobody in my family ever said anything about it—not even my odious half-brother Tom. He lettered three [...]
HAPPY ENDINGS A Short Story By Michael Conniff She kissed him on the mouth so hard it hurt. She had never kissed him that way before: her mouth had never been a weapon that [...]
LIVES OF THE SAINTS By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2020 All Rights Reserved Wendy K. Marks Yankee Doodle Sweetheart Former pom-pom girl Wendy Marks, 44, was a Yankee Doodle Sweetheart literally born on [...]
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2018 All Rights Reserved All that Clay and me had asked for was justice for all, but there was no justice in the suburbs, not [...]
CLIMATA Copyright © 2020 All Rights Reserved First Chapter By Michael Conniff Madagascar The first time she walked on water they called her a saint. The second time they called her God—had she been [...]
THE SCHOOL OF LOVE By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved A Short Story from the novel BOOK OF O’KELLS: NATURE OF THE BEAST Sex was not only in the air but [...]
You never knew what you might find in those handouts under Human Potential or Leisure Pursuits. You never knew, and it was in one of those handouts, under Human Potential—and not Leisure Pursuits—that I found the kissing class: Kissing Without Missing, they called it.
