There’s a Light by Mark Martyre
There’s a light in my window that I never really noticed before.It comes through the curtains at night.A warm combination of the streetlamp, and the moon. There’s a light that I never really paid much attention tountil she came over one time, and was enraptured by itand it’s haunting beauty. And we’d…
Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers, It’s hard to believe that just 6 months ago, we launched Issue No. 1. And now we’re releasing Issue No. 4 with several future issues already planned or filled! It’s insane, but oh so exciting. This issue is a collection of so many different pieces, all of them…
Into Dust by Craig Rodgers
She has always hated the cake. She says it to her brother the moment he presents her with the favor. “I despise it, Robert.” He is six years old and she is eight and she has only just learned the word. Despise. He had help making it, but the credit is his, the…
Everett by Kwami Nyamidie
For Everett Amundsen Many versions of Windows have come and gonesince I first met you. You came, through the library’s glass door.You tore your little fingers from your mother’s gripand scampered to the front desk. You were so shortI could barely see you. Do you remember? “What’s your name?” you ask.I didn’t want to shock…
countdown by RC deWinter
time is a heavy necklacestrung with the impatience of longingunmitigated by the lessening of days the closer my heart’s desire the morefrustration builds impatience is a harsh mistressan implacable harridan with a twisted smilemocking accomplishmentmocking sleepcaressing my chest with fingernailssharpened to vees even as the clock unstrings the stonesthe weight…
Jake’s Place by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
“Go on Ed, go see if he’s there.” My mother shooed me out onto the street many times to check on my dad. By the time I was eight years old, I could find my way to Jake’s Place without even looking. Three steps to the sidewalk, turn left, and…
Big Bang and You! by Dr. Shawn Adair Johnston
While the question of how the physical universe came into existence flirts with the incomprehensible, the answer to this question could have enormous implications for you personally. For example, if the universe is the product of purely natural and random processes (the current belief of many sophisticated folks), then you…
Point Blank, Part 3 by Paige Bagby
Chapter 6 In a primeval rainforest filled with beings that would eventually tread the earth again as rubber and oil, a dejected Ca’al mourned the loss of his mate to a rogue landslide. The mourning was brief as he was momentarily crushed beneath the foot of a large herbivorous lizard. …
Table of Contents: Issue 4
Letter from the Editor The Last KissJuliette Sebock ForeshadowingJuliette Sebock The DirectoryRebecca Coyte EverettKwami Nyamidie The Boy in the TreeCraig Rodgers Message From a Distant PlanetJohn Grey Han’s SoloMark Blickley *Accompanied by photography by Keith Goldstein* countdownRC deWinter Though I Work in the ShadowsHunter Blackwell Time Whitewashed in SnowYuan Changming…
Forgotten by James G. Piatt
So much forgotten,more than a momentin a field of darkness, more than the shape of a timeless thought. Since memories cannot Spring from that, which isforgotten only theshadows of unreality remain for we of fading hours. Our hours, waiting to locateeternity, weighed down with the weariness of living, areresting on the edge of a razor.…
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