Issue #12–July 2015 – Fabula Argentea

THUMP DUMPS A CHUMP by Steve DuBois

June 28, 2015 adminFA

Who’s the paleface cracker clowns that run the world an’ keep a brother down?

CHUMPS. Can you dig it?

THE BLACK HOLE by Joshua Chaplinsky

June 28, 2015 adminFA

From the outside there didn’t appear to be anything particularly interesting about the place. No signage to identify it. Just a blank storefront with blacked-out windows, and, if you got close enough, Abandon hope, all ye that enter here carved into the door.

POLAR EXPRESSION by Stephanie Johnson

June 28, 2015 adminFA

I don’t listen for the sound of trains anymore.

MINNIE’S DEMISE by Fred Miller

June 28, 2015 adminFA

My boyfriend laughs when I tell him that Minnie, my car, is my best friend.

THE NEXT STOP by Bob Thurber

June 28, 2015 adminFA

The place looked neither deserted nor open. It was a cable-car-style restaurant with a long row of windows and a small boxy addition attached.

COMEDIAN WALKS INTO A SELF-REFERENTIAL JOKE AND TELLS IT LIKE IT IS by Soren James

June 28, 2015 adminFA

Comedian walks into a joke and says, “How come this isn’t funny?”

TATTERED HEART by Robin Lange

June 28, 2015 adminFA

Raggedy Ann smiled at me today. It was unexpected and delightful. Sitting, as she was, on my living room shelf, grinning like an idiot without a care in the world. I was at once comforted and annoyed.

THE PENSACOLA POLTERGEIST by Warren Buchanan

June 28, 2015 adminFA

Susanne heard a knock at the screen door. It sounded like another hurricane, thwack thwack ruin your life thwack thwack. As if Pensacola needed any more hot air blowing through.