Recently added articles from Confrontation:
A red pen.(Stories)(Short story)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Roger always knew he'd have an accident. It was a kind of given for anyone from Mobile Manor Trailer Park, where proximity to the GM plant pretty much guaranteed your working there and, in turn, your likelihood of being injured in a plant mishap. In fact, the plant was where Roger's father ...
Love and other terminal diseases.(Stories)(Short story)
Jun 22, 2009; ... 1. Gretchen On the day Gretchen came to see me with her documents, after small talk and the shedding of her outer garments, I immediately got down to business. "Where are the papers you wanted to show me?" She handed me the packet as I sat at my desk. At ...
Two virgins.(Stories)(Short story)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Geraghty was halfway to Susan Crookshank's when she phoned to ask if he could come an hour later than planned. Her parents, who'd been scheduled to return to Long Island that afternoon, wouldn't be flying out until morning on account of an ice storm moving up the Eastern Seaboard. She'd ...
Graft vs. host.(Stories)(Short story)
Jun 22, 2009; ... "When you were thirteen," Mrs. Herzweig told me, "in stead of a Bar Mitzvah, you got a Jewish heart." It happened to be the heart of her son, Marty. He died in a motorcycle accident, a few weeks after his seventeenth birthday. I learned a lot about my donor from his family, and ...
The toaster.(Stories)(Short story)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Katie wanted to be a famous writer like her uncle. She'd never read any of his books because her dad kept them hidden in the basement under the gardening stuff on account of the sex parts. She knew what was in them, though. Boats and wars mostly, with boat sex and war sex to keep people ...