Christina Reiss has been a finalist or semi-finalist in the Scribes Publishing, Howard Frank Mosher, Able Muse, Tiferet, Kallisto Gaia Press, San Fedele Press’s American Writers in Review, and Great Midwest Writing short story contests and was an honorable mention for the Hat Prize. She has published short stories in Scribes Anthology, Fail Better, Scarlett Leaf, Pulse Peninsula, and Watershed and will publish additional work with San Fedele Press. She lives and works in Vermont.
Alicia climbed the dirty cement steps from the platform to the train station’s street level and walked out into a driving rain. Il pleut des cords, the French would say, it’s raining ropes, and it did look that way, long strands of rain that seemed to hang mid-air before splintering onto the pavement. It was one of a handful of… Read more →