She didn’t press. He would make the first move when he was ready. This was her last appointment and she had time.
THE FIXER by Mike Murphy

Elias Farrell founded Look Ahead Enterprises—a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company designed to do the impossible—in 2027.
REMEDIES by Jonathan Phillips

For the sixth time since we read Aesop’s Fable, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” Derek Winstrop stood in the center of our elementary school playground during lunch and said he was going to kill himself.
FIRST PHONE by Zary Fekete

My first phone… carefully placed between books in my bag.
BESS GETS HIGH by Marco Etheridge

Mrs. Bess Cunningham is on a first-name basis with Death.
WHATEVER by Yitzchak Friedman

You don’t have to read this if you don’t want to. I don’t care. I don’t give a damn about anything.
FREEWHEELING by Philip Charter

Luke was looking forward to the punishment—the only time he felt in control was when his leg muscles were burning and his lungs were screaming for air… But after daydreaming about racking up the kilometres all week, he was free now, if only for a few hours.
STEVIE PUTS THE FUN BACK IN FUNERAL by George Beckerman

Stevie was an insecure human… Recently, he’d been even more emotionally fragile than usual.