“Curtain Call” by David MichaelShort Story (2200 words)
The White Hot Hemisphere Community Theater Company chose Shakespeare’s Hamlet for their first production after the cataclysm–and possibly their last before the end of the world. As a tragedy, as a play about loss and descent into madness, Hamlet seemed an appropriate choice, at least to those players who could still make nonliteral inferences…
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“Baptism” by David MichaelShort Story (6000 words)
Drunk on mojitos, high on love, and smelling of sex just consummated on the beach, Myra Acevedo went swimming for the last time. When she came out of the clear water of the Yucatan peninsula, she was no longer just Myra. She had become the end of the world. (My version of the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse.)
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Short Story (6500 words)
Two yellowing Polaroids, snapshots of a little girl at the fair. Two different childhoods separated by the death of her father.
One childhood Sharon can’t remember, ruined by the one she wants to forget.
When her boyfriend’s “birthday surprise” turns out to be a date at the same fair, Sharon finds herself face to face with both.
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