The Weekly Knob, an online publication, has chosen “Feuds,” a short story by Eric Beversluis, as one of the two winning stories in its first story competition. Each week The Weekly Knob sets a household item as a prompt and…
Category: Romance
One Grate Task
Challenged to write something involving a cheese grater, our author finds art imitating life, creating existential tension. 4 minute read.
Murder at the Roadhouse
Junior Watson was good-looking. Not movie-star-Humphry-Bogart good looking but GQ Magazine-fashion-model good-looking. He was pleased with his looks. No. He was proud of his looks. Narcissus had nothing on him. It wasn’t just his face. He was blessed with…
Tomorrow
I walked to the edge of Tomorrow. Bright love burns the fog of sorrow. — Image:Copyright Rdonar | Dreamstime.com
Recycled
Tossed out. Just junk mail. Reject. His life worthless. Her Love recycled him.
Gashes
The balcony, Elaborately carved white balustrade, spreads across two rooms, looks out across the blue-green sea cradling a stone promontory, smooth sloping surface, reaching several hundred feet above the water A gash, a road, cuts across its face halfway up…
Please, a Broom
Slashing, jagged chunks of broken glass. Barefoot, trapped. Someone, please, a broom. Slashing, jagged chunks of savaged heart. Cruel shards. Someone, please, a broom. — Image: by Richard
Threads of Time
The house was always quite bare. Like most buildings in Rattlesnake Gulch, it was rough-sawn and unpainted. The only decorations in the parlor were an Indian rug on the wall and a faded photograph of Mama. Today, it was…