by The Editrix in Issue 03 – October 2016
Issue 3 of Congress Magazine has no theme, but it does have four fantastic stories for your reading pleasure. Well, in our opinion, quality is the best theme of all. First, we’re excited to tell you that Mr. Matthew Addison has returned to Congress, with an original story this time. “Pink for a Day” explores themes of […]
by Matthew Addison in Issue 03 – October 2016
I blinked awake in dimness, and my first inkling of my new situation was when I tried to rub the granules of sleep from my eyes. My hand stopped short, jerked by a silver chain attached to a metal cuff on my wrist. The other end of the chain disappeared into the waistband of my— […]
by Carrie Laben in Issue 03 – October 2016
I was having very unliterary sex. I usually did, but this was stand-out in the total lack of cliché. I wasn’t already sure I was going to regret it. I wasn’t melancholy and disconnected through the act. I wasn’t thinking of my father or the horse I hadn’t had as a child. And I wasn’t […]
by Wendy N. Wagner in Issue 03 – October 2016
He lies on the rough wool carpet and tries to remember where he is. The world spins around him, veiled in flashes of lightning. His skin crackles with electricity, but he is not afraid. Its touch comforts him. He closes his eyes. For a moment he is back in the workroom at Edison Machine Works. […]
by Jason S. Ridler in Issue 03 – October 2016
The Tijuana Bible sat in Brewster’s dry hands. He did his best to ignore the smell of it, the soft, limp pages, and the others who had held it before. The yellow and black cover gripped him as hard as he gripped the book itself. A crudely etched Snow White was bent over a wooden […]