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Frogs and Princes by Monica Foster
Justine was patient, with her cell phone pressed to her ear as she listened to her dear friend Sarah, but she was tired of the “you’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs in order to find your prince” analogy she so often heard after yet another dreadful first date. Sarah was not quite [...]
5230 by Joan Sutton
Samantha set her alarm clock for 5 a.m. every day of the week—including weekends. She had the volume set on two and kept it on her side of the bed not to wake her husband Gene. The soft sound of her alarm lifted her up with out a moment of lag time. She reached over [...]
Ketchikan by Allan Wasserman
“Kid you got a golden thumb,” declared Cortis Haire. He had picked up the bright-eyed hippie outside of Los Angeles heading north on his pedal to the metal push towards Seattle.
Summer 2008
Two Hawks Quarterly
Issue 2 – Number 1 – Summer 2008
RITUALS by Lynn Bey
1.
Our mother calls me to come and look at her. That is how we begin.
“Say something,” she says. She tries to sound petulant, but her image in the full-length mirror makes her smile.
“A sheath,” I offer, cross-legged on the floor. I hold a pillow on my lap despite the heat.