David Williamson

David Williamson is a writer living and working in Richmond, VA with his family, two cats, and his chocolate lab Fred. His stories are forthcoming or have appeared in BULL, Maudlin House, Misery Tourism, Bear Creek Gazette, and others. He’s sometimes on Twitter @Williamsonism.

THE DISASTER LOTTERY by David Williamson

April 13, 2022 · Fiction

A few years back when I’m twelve and old enough to be alone at home while my parents leave and stay out late, I find some cigarettes and smoke them in the house, then I take two sips each from all the liquor bottles we have in the house, and then I get hit over the head with a premonition that my mom and dad are never coming back home. I move to the front window, the one that I can see the farthest down the road, and I stare out the glass and watch for their car. I focus…

Crow Jonah Norlander

AUTOGRAPH PARTY by David Williamson

January 8, 2019 · Fiction

All the girls have their binders and they are all beaming, and she just has her arms all covered in her sleeves and wondering if her mother will come back before the party ends. It appears to her that the ends of Beth Beachie’s mother’s mouth almost touch her ears. Beth Beachie’s mother smiles crazy and starts it off by going to the record player and dropping the needle. A song plays that she thinks she’s heard before in a department store. Beth’s Beachie’s mother rings the bell. All the girls bounce around the floor and come together like atoms…

x-r-a-y magazine