Pyre

Hot Dog and Marshmallows —By Lamont A. Turner
“Doug’s decision to go hiking had been a response to Marsha’s complaints about his expanding paunch. Like the time he’d purposefully shrunk her favorite sweater after she complained about being the only one doing laundry, dragging her around the tick and mosquito infested woods for a few hours was meant to forestall future nagging.”

The Good Father —By TIM GOLDSTONE
“He quickly found even the isolation of the settlement wasn’t enough. The words ‘neighbor’ and ‘community,’ bandied about everywhere, sickened him.”






