issue 64

Will you still need me, will you still read me, when I’m 64?

We sure hope so! Please drop whatever you’re doing (we hope it was unimportant) and start reading what we’ve put together here.

This issue is specially long at 20 stories because life’s too short not to publish outstanding work when we see it. 

Herewith:

a parting scene between sisters involving Orion and a mad dad

what might have happened if I’d never met you

Abuja turns out not to be the city of dreams

dealing with a parent who eats others’ words

visions after a plane crash and an avalanche

how to cope with an unstoppable toilet

wooing a member of a motorcycle gang

an unpleasant dinner at the boss’s house

a man who buys two ghosts at an auction

a woman flummoxed by raccoons, pregnancy, and life in general

losing a piano-playing mother bit by bit

a deep freezer doubles as a hiding place for two

hiking down to the beach with some vodka and Spam

vengeance visited on a pack of belligerent boys

what it means to put down a horse

love that hurts when you’re fifteen

an elegant but tough meal—and partner—to stomach

regrets over not taking care of the bodies in the basement

a town way above average in mostly good ways

two sisters who create a world

an interview with a flash fictioneer who was trained as a scientist

a review of the microfiction anthology that people wait all year for

David Galef
Editor in chief
Vestal Review