Mar 18The Quartering Acta short story by Dolan Morgan (originally published at Cosmonauts Avenue) “This law does not make any sense,” my dad said, hitting his fist on the steering wheel. But even I knew that sense had nothing to do with what governed us. I’d just started high school, and so this…Fiction26 min readFiction26 min read
Jul 13, 2021Infestationa short story by Dolan Morgan from the collection That’s When The Knives Come Down (A|P, 2014) It ended. A renewed military campaign, enacted in swift concert with the most powerful industrial nations, served to do away with the goats entirely in most parts. Some towns saw inclement weather or…Fiction23 min readFiction23 min read
Apr 15, 2018FutureBooka short story They dragged Tad out of class and brought him to The Consoling Room. Yes, Tad Bolton. The Varsity player. The guitar swinging senior. Who kissed Lindsay Ritten on the mouth. Right in front of Mr. Harold’s dumb face. While swinging a petition. With 5,000 signatures, to save…Fiction6 min readFiction6 min read
Apr 9, 2018a short story: “Joy”At the party, the awful couple was arguing again. Their voices filled a corner, a hallway, the entire space. “What’s their goddamn problem,” someone said. Everyone stopped to listen. The couple — a man and a woman — weren’t even embarrassed. How could they be? …Fiction20 min readFiction20 min read
