If you walk downtown in Sanderstown, you see it divided in half by a metal gutter. It's a town with generations divided, not just by age, but by illness.  This fictional piece, talks about how a town dealt how a fast-spreading sickness that still haunts it today.

Everyone is afraid of something. Here is what happens when one girl finally decides to confront "Bloody Mary."

At the age of 22, fresh off the humanities degree assembly line, Jennie Gruber found herself doing the filthiest work of her life at a recycling center called Big Blue Sphere. There she came face to face with an invisible subculture of Santa Cruz vagabonds who taught her to see homeless people in a whole new light. Visiting a similar recycling plant near her current home in Brooklyn, and reminiscing about the job with an old co-worker, Gruber muses on the influence that "Big Loose Fear" had on her life.

The “Second Big Bang” by Rachel Lake is an ironic twist on the traditional creation myth form. It employs quirky humor, cynicism, and of course, stardust-induced perisaturnium. 

A man wakes up in the middle of the night after a dream about a girl with short brown hair named Sloan Fisher. He gets out a phonebook and a bottle of scotch to embark on a real-world search for his imaginary girlfriend.