Issue

# 2
December 2022
The Evening Universe - Isuue 2 for December 2022
The painting used in the cover design is Henry Mosler’s “Christmas Morning” (1916).

Fiction

Another Christmas window story

by Larry Nation
Another Christmas window story
Every morning, I eat breakfast in the same diner, and one day a man was painting the windows with Christmas designs. He was completely engrossed, taking...
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The road to nowhere

by Ian O Grady
The road to nowhere
I felt my eyelids getting heavy. The long stretch of road had an almost sedating effect on me. I had the heaters on which was lulling...
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Sewn-up

by Sasha Krugosvetov
Sewn-up
Vladimir Ivanovich Meklin cared deeply about his health, especially about the condition of his teeth. At the age of fifty-eight, he still had his own teeth,...
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Our teacher doesn’t call us by our real names

by Shainur Ullah
Our teacher doesn’t call us by our real names
I have a teacher at school that teaches a variety of subjects, and he is generally well liked, the only strange thing about him is that...
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Mr. Nobody

by Matthew Jeffrey
Mr. Nobody
We’re all familiar with Mr. Nobody; we’re introduced to him as children. A drink spills on the carpet, a vase smashes to the floor. Our parents...
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Tossing

by Shahrzad
Tossing
Chrissy got her mother to promise to buy her new sneakers for Christmas. I can’t believe she did that to us. To us!! After all we’ve...
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Once in a while

by Mikhail Strannik
Once in a while
After a fierce battle, the troops of the defeated army retreated. The battlefield belonged to the conqueror now. Pursuing the retreating scattered groups of the enemy,...
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I Think I’m The Last Person On Earth

by Rae Powell
I Think I’m The Last Person On Earth
It started with my sister. She was eight. She was kind and gentle. She was smart which is why it never made any sense to me...
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