A Country With No Glasses
“Every day, my comrades’ gunshots echoed somewhere.” As a revolutionary army seizes power, strength is drawn from an object of profound sentimental value… by: Juan Takai…
Fiction
The Roboticist
“Art is slow, cumbersome and deliberate, but necessary.” An engrossing offering of flash fiction where obsession proves the only path towards perfection… by: R. E. Hengsterman…
Born Already
“Everything went off except the power in the room where the procedure was unfolding, the sacred place where we were playing god.” A work of…
Delilah’s Burden
A work of fiction where a position of power is employed for pleasure, causing an unwitting hireling’s innocence to be forever lost… by: Roger D….
Plumb Pudding
A work of speculative, political fiction about a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who is destined to clean up the three branches of…
The Date
“Your life is your life. You have the right to own it, all of it, until your very last day.” What if you knew “The…
Adam & Evie
Tensions flare, and a relationship turns tumult, when the dreaded K-word appears… by: Alan Swyer Trying in vain to wipe the sleep from his eyes,…
I’ll Show Him
A short work of fiction wherein the quality of one’s art is used as a measure of a person’s self worth… by: Mike Sharlow1 Rod…
Mortar Prayers
“Nobody pays attention to my bad dream, my outburst. Everybody’s tending their own crop of horrors.” A short work of fiction that acts a reminder of…
Best of Across The Margin 2019, Fiction
As 2019 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured moments in Fiction… Throughout this final…
A Real Doll
An offering of Flash Fiction where a traveler indulges in the fancies of his hypocrisy… by: Karen Schauber1 Candy red lipstick stains his starched white collar…
Running Out Of Time
A lethal goddess, a savage beast, and a band of unsuspecting passerby converge, to chilling results… by: Frederick Foote I grew up in the South, in…