by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Jan 21, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Excerpts
The Pacific stretched wide, vast and dark, the blue-green waves rolling softly and teasingly until, seemingly from nowhere, a breaker would slam into the beach, driving the tourists floating and bobbing in the shallows violently to the sandy floor. Still, they rose up...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Jan 14, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Excerpts
We’re driving down Cinderbox Road, bright afternoon sun bouncing off the corn that’s starting to turn brown in the late summer heat, when a buck jumps in front of the pickup. It’s the last curve before home, a zag to the right so sharp it’s almost a turn. This one...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Jan 6, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Excerpts
Chad’s father is long dead by this point. Mugged and shot twice, arm and chest, in a far suburb of Cleveland. We have no way of knowing this yet; the murder occurred late at night Eastern Standard Time, early morning in France, and we wouldn’t hear anything for some...
