Break From Reality. Daily.
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2022 Fall Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. In December of 1965 two men confronted each other in the parking lot behind a warehouse in northwest Phoenix. The smaller man wore denim work clothes; his business card described him…
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2022 Spring Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. I might hesitate in telling my little tale to strangers. I would not want to violate a trust of privacy in discussing the intimacies of my comrades’ brief lives. They…
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 10th Anniversary Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. I lay with you here on this rock, my sweet Polly Fawn Rose, on this day in a different time. Come I back to this rock every year on this…
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2021 Spring Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. Dora pushed aside the hangers until she found the brown-striped suit with the smart, short-waisted jacket and the knee-length skirt and pulled it out of the closet. Jack’s favorite. And…
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2020 Fall Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. The morning sun shone bright across a green meadow toward the closed up gates of the city of Troy. A flare of light reflected back from the shield of a…
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2020 Summer Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. Five and twenty years. The ruling is harsh. And now it’s down with me into the dungeon of Chateau d’If. Here by my own action. Alas. My future is splashed…
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2019 Summer Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. The room was smaller than Willa had expected. As she entered through a narrow doorway from the dimly lit hall, she could see a queen-sized bed over to the left….
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2018 Fall Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. Sixteen years had gone by since the end of World War Two. While Japan was no longer considered an occupied country, the social consequences of previous years continued to take…
This story is by Darrell Eugene McGuire and was part of our 2018 Summer Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. Officer Alan Caldwell saw the flicker of light on the horizon in the autumn night sky above the trees, a fire, and pointed his squad car in that direction, called…
