Fiction – BIG OTHER

David Leo Rice’s Angel House (An Excerpt)

This scene takes place early in the novel, soon after the ark known as ANGEL HOUSE, piloted by an…

My father taught me to count each line of memory cut into a woman’s wrists. The red, round sores…

W H E N N A T U R E W O N ’ T P L U T…

In the end, silence reigned. It settled over dry fields and skeletons—trees black obelisks in risen waters. Finally, children…

The Orbital continues like this, night after night. Slant of cosmic rain slashing the blacktop. Dopplered taillights receding. Not alone…

(31) Then we were waiting for that last second, I thought. It was a good day. There were good…

No surprise Trina had spent half her inheritance on something abandoned. Years before, she’d exchanged chains of emails with…

Blenk, more and more troubled by the phrases appearing on his writing pad, went to the window, pulled back the…

One morning, a day not apparently unlike any other since I arrived in this small place, I woke, and…

I see my sister, Eugenie. She’s just a child. I’m a child too, three years older. We’re escaping Poland.…