By: Eric Mount I was walking back to my office the other day when I noticed that my door was shut, which was odd, because it is always propped open. As I came to the door I reached for the handle but was suddenly warned by Gina, a new intern, to take caution. She...
He said nothing when he entered. I was passing the best of my razors back and forth on a strop. When I recognized him I started to tremble. But he didn’t notice. Hoping to conceal my emotion, I continued sharpening the razor. I tested it on the meat of my thumb,...
Okay, so I remember reading this short story when I was in high school. I remember it ending “All in all, it had been a weird, weird lottery.” This version doesn’t end that way. Any thoughts? The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the...
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to...
(To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,...
