The car climbed up the road as the mist began to billow around us. There’s peace here in the Highlands, I thought, punching the gas pedal to get to the green arrow in time. This is[...]
The following is an excerpt from Katie Levisay’s piece for Cartel III (Fall, 2012), which can be purchased for $2.99 as an Amazon Kindle e-book or as a PDF. *** It is popular[...]
The following is an excerpt from Paul Shirley’s piece for Cartel III (Fall, 2012), which can be purchased for $2.99 as an Amazon Kindle e-book or as a PDF. *** It’s a story a[...]
The following is an excerpt from Scott Muska’s piece for Cartel III (Fall, 2012), which can be purchased for $2.99 as an Amazon Kindle e-book or as a PDF. *** I walked into t[...]
The following are two of Matt Shirley’s contributions to Cartel III (Fall, 2012), which can be purchased for $2.99 as an Amazon Kindle e-book or as a PDF.  [...]
I am being methodically, malevolently denuded of an already depleted mental capacity by a wireless Internet system that taunts me mercilessly and evades capture on a regular basis.[...]
Every year it gets harder and harder to predict what people are going to wear for Halloween. Just kidding! In general, people are uncreative simps. They herd toward costume cliches[...]
Sometimes, when people use clichés, I think, “That was a horrible choice of words, because that doesn’t really make sense.” But I tend to nod and move along without comment because[...]
I missed the last seven or eight trains to Adulthood, but a few months ago I turned 25, realized that I’ve been alive for a quarter of a century already and hopped on the express. [...]
Literally. It’s a word that flummoxes everyone from sportscasters to sorority sisters, Catholic preachers to English teachers. It means, “to the letter.” But in the past decade it [...]