The new issue of Faraway is online, featuring dozens of pieces by many new authors.  Click on the titles below to read the individual stories or poems, or click here to view the issue as a whole.

On the Other Promontory by Davide Trame

Winter Passage For Billy Collins by Michael K. Gause

Dwindling Times and Burden by Gary Beck

A Work in Progress by Benjamin Nardolilli with artwork by Travis Jeffords

Paramecium by S.P. Flannery

Her Shunted Complexion by Ray Succre with photo by James Berkshire

Beyond Organic Groceries by Elizabeth Kate Switaj

“Behold I Am Oblivion” by Terence Kuch

Titian on His Journey Home by Davide Trame

The Book Review by David Kentner

A Family Matter by Josh Mitchell with photos by Atina Thorning

Manic is the Dark Night by Michael K. Johnson

Dwellings by Luigi Monteferrante

The Whole History of Art by William Doreski

Can I Get a Witness by Eric McKinley

Betty With the Peacock by Willow Healy

Fading Flurries by Sean Wiebe

? by Jeff Hendrickson

RedYellowRed by Katie Rutherford

Conceptual Conflict by Felino Soriano

Spirit Faces by William Doreski

Roy Flint, Circa 1988 by Jen Conley

Venge by S.P. Flannery

Smack! by James Berkshire

The Silent Signs by Olga Zilberbourg with artwork by Gay Degani

Some Dark Blue by Beth Mathison

Coming to America by Shane Ryan Bailey with L.A. Harvest by James Berkshire

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Mark Konkel
New Grass by Michael K. Gause

I opened the door without looking. You know how you do, like sometimes when you answer the phone without checking the caller ID. Then a week later you find yourself helping a friend move to a fifth floor walkup on a sweltering July Saturday, or attending your grandmother’s poetry reading at the nursing home. It was like that. I opened the door without looking.
     “Blessed morning to you, sir.”
     “If you say so.”
     “How are you today?”
     The woman’s smile was determined, expansive. Maybe they gave out pills at Kingdom Hall. I wish this woman, Delores, would simply tell me so.  She might get somewhere then.   
     “Delores, I’m gonna be real with you, I’m pretty friggin’ hung over.”

Read the rest here, and click here to read more about Eric McKinley.

Christopher Caldwell crosses the space between the stove and kitchen sink for what could have been the fiftieth time tonight. He turns the faucet to fill the kettle he’s holding. Returning to the stove he starts to boil water for more coffee. He then hears the door open and close in the adjacent washroom. His brother Michael now enters the kitchen. It’s 11:40pm and a single light overhanging the tiny kitchen table illuminates the small room.

“You’ve been gone awhile,” Christopher says. Michael pulls a chair from the table and sits without saying a word. Reaching into his pocket he grabs a pack of cigarettes, pulls one out and places it between his lips.  Outstretching his arm, but without looking up, he offers one to his brother.  Christopher quietly accepts one and the two brothers light their cigarettes in unison, and both exhale large plumes of smoke, Michael’s slightly larger.

With photos by Atina Thorning.  Click here to read more, and here to read more by Josh Mitchell.

Read the whole issue here, or preview the issue by clicking below:

Poetry: On the Other Promontory by Davide Trame.
Short story: The Book Review by David A. Kentner.

And return tomorrow for a new short story by Josh Mitchell, illustrated with photographs by Atina Thorning.

The radio came alive with the dispatcher advising the Fire Dept of the need for an ambulance at the golf course clubhouse. A man had stopped breathing.

He was just passing that building on his way to check on a house while the owners were away on vacation, so he pulled into the lot and ran inside the building. He checked the man’s vital signs – no pulse, no breathing. He began CPR and instructed a woman offering to help on how to give the man breaths of air while he maintained the chest compressions keeping the blood circulating.

Click here to read the rest.  Click here to read more about David A. Kentner.

Spring issue: http://www.farawayjournal.com/volume-2-issue-3-spring-2009/.