Ignis Fatuus

HISTORICAL FICTION ENTRY:

The three sisters couldn’t spend their summer at home because of smallpox in the town. Their parents acquired the old farmhouse close to the boarding school and their favorite teacher agreed to spend her vacation taking care of them. She told them why the house was empty, of the little girl, who drowned in the cow pond. In time, the spirit came to each: in a dream; as a light over the field at dusk; and to the third sister, as the woman she spent the rest of her life with, from the age of twenty-eight, in a Boston marriage.

From Guest Contributor Jon Fain

Thus far in 2020, Jon's fiction has appeared in 50-Word Stories, Fleas on the Dog, City. River. Tree., and Blue Lake Review.

King George And The Second Boston Tea Party

The Boston chapter of the Tea Party asked every newcomer to show identification. Too many liberal reporters had painted them in a bad light.

The old man was stopped at the front door. "ID please."

"I don't have any."

"Why not?"

"Because ID's are a plot by the socialist government to try and rob us of our freedom. Before you know it, they'll have us locked up in death camps."

"He's one of us."

Sweet success. First the time machine, and now this. George may not be royalty in this century, but his divine right to rule was still recognized.