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 moments in Fiction… Throughout this final…
R.E. Hengsterman
The Globe
“Father was an ordinary man whose passion had become his curse.” As Mother Nature’s vengeful wrath escalates, a doomsday prepper goes to extraordinary lengths to weather…
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…
The Q
A work of thought provoking speculative fiction that imagines a post social media world, one that gives rise to the Q — the most important social…
Rehab
by: R.E Hengsterman “None of this was Kenneth’s fault. His iPhone had tempted him into various activities of degrading, non-productive, and inappropriate behavior. Mindless hours…
A Karmic Debt
by: R.E Hengsterman1 A short work of fiction which highlights the karmic pitfalls of human choice within the various versions of self… “The course of…
Best of ATM 2017, Fiction
As 2017 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured moments in Fiction… Throughout this final…
The Cull
by: R. E Hengsterman “Amongst all the ruin there were rumors of salvation, people searching, desperate, scared and broken. I’d sought the same redemption.” The…
Shift Work
by: R. E Hengsterman “Apathy left the door wide open for me, and the third floor became my own personal playground. To which I took…
Heavy With Consequence
by: R.E Hengsterman A road to “manhood” lies littered with lessons learned the hard way… My head rocks, cockeyed and hard. Thud, thud, and thud again….
Redemption
by: R.E Hengsterman1 When your social contract with society fractures wholly, and it’s time to take dead aim at the lingering stains on your soul… My days consist…