Essential Teacher
“We were going to be together for the long haul, and resource conservation was imperative.” A lifelong desire to be…
Fiction
Paying Dues
An inviting tale, drawing the reader into the all-too-often cutthroat world of show business, featuring a plan rife with the potential…
Our Lady of Sorrows
Amid the fuss of a bustling marketplace, two nuns dispute the virtue of a “medicine” with the potential to…
For Oona
A heart-rendering tale of friendship, struggle, and devotion that speaks to the intimacy and power of even the subsidiary relationships…
Jack
The Tao of Jack. The story of a seeker, unleashed of the shackles of the fever dream of the…
The Price
As bloodshed spreads across “cratered streets with shrapnel-riddled shells of ambulances and rebar twisting out of wreckage like lost…
American Dilemmas
A work of fiction where a family, embattled in a game of chance, deliberates a greater game of chance,…
Best of Across The Margin 2020, Fiction
As 2020 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured…
A Game : Eternally
An impassioned “chess match” between Death and The Maker reveals a surprising truth about the nature, and spirit, of…
Sunglasses at Night
A work of fiction, where a loyal coed, well out of her element, finds something meaningful in the last…
The Smell of Sage
A work of fiction where a woman, independant in spirit and determined in will, is galvanized by “the smells…
A Stowaway’s Day Out
“Although land is gone, countries and laws are here to stay.” In a world transformed by Climate Change, a…