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  • Issue 9,  Poetry

    Screaming/Laughing by Rickey Rivers Jr.

    July 1, 2020 /

    Screams of excitement often sound like anguish.I wish this not to be the case. People cheering at funerals, screaming at parties, pain at the wedding, laughs at the blood. It happens often Smile inside.Scream outwardly. Children giggle out the womb keeping their parents up at night. Jokes make hollers and…

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    The Boat Train by Philip Berry

    July 1, 2019

    Snow White Sees the Mirror by Elizabeth Burk

    January 1, 2020

    The Tree Between Us by Grace Safford

    January 1, 2020
  • Issue 9,  Poetry

    Milk Teeth by McCaela Prentice

    July 1, 2020 /

    I thought someone mightlove me by now.I had that nightmare again-the one where Ihave forgotten my age;have forgotten the teethI spit into my hands.a boy I slept besidetold me he had dreamt it too-told me not to wish away time. ____________________________________________________________ McCaela Prentice is a Maine writer now living in…

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    Table of Contents: Issue 7

    January 1, 2020

    People Are Filled With Patterns by Niall Power

    July 1, 2019

    The Three And A Half Lives Of Euphemia Stauton’s Dress by Amanda McLeod

    January 1, 2019
  • Issue 9,  Poetry

    Trace by McCaela Prentice

    July 1, 2020 /

    The days now leave meshort of breath. A man is edging alonga guard rail on the Queensboro bridge.I have only ever seen the bedroomdimly lit. I have only walked here once.I drag my finger along the yellow linefor a stranger on the train.these are places I have been;that my time…

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    Time by Margaret Banford

    September 1, 2019

    Table of Contents: Thank You For Your Service

    May 15, 2022

    Amidst the Junktique Dealer’s Goods & Moveables by Paula Bonnell

    January 1, 2020
  • Issue 9,  Poetry

    The Barrister’s Ballade in Oompa Loompish by Kristin Garth

    July 1, 2020 /

    “So I shipped them all over here, every man, woman, and child in the Oompa-Loompa tribe. It was easy. I smuggled them over in large packing cases with holes in them, and they all got here safely.” Roald Dahl, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory  The Oompa-Loompa finally free, we litigate because of TV.  Smuggled in luggage breathing…

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    A Dragon’s Tale by Bruce Louis Dodson

    January 1, 2020

    Overslept by Judith Kingston

    January 1, 2020

    happy b-day. by Taryn Dixon

    March 1, 2019
  • Issue 9,  Poetry

    Love and Alzheimer’s by Anannya Uberoi

    July 1, 2020 /

    We keep sipping on crystalware, tumblers coffee mugs,pitchers, kettles – cafésthese days are creative withcrockery. You like blue andgreen colored drinks, I likepale stalks popping out ofmouths of wine bottlessplitting into tiny tendrilsbetween us – the pothos plantthrives on neglect. I keepforgetting to pick one up forthe kitchen, and you areundecided; forget me…

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    Ready or Not by Frank Light

    May 21, 2022

    Witness by Scott Elder

    November 1, 2019

    Time by Robert Grant

    January 1, 2019
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    Reflective Surfaces by Ryan Purcell

    April 4, 2020 /

    I’ve got this mental picture of you glimpsed in the reflection of a storm door closing.You wouldn’t look at me as I left and I wouldn’tturn around to see if you looked afterbut I caught you peeking.That meant a lot at the time,but not enough to turn around. I don’t regret it…

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    Kabuki Lessons by David Lohrey

    September 1, 2019

    Into Dust by Craig Rodgers

    July 1, 2019

    Nourishment by Ray Ball

    January 1, 2020
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    My Hips: Myrtle Beach Pavilion, Circa 1978 by Carol Parris Krauss

    April 4, 2020 /

    Fireball. Gorgar. Wizard.The pull. pinball release. Careening bullet, zipper flippers, Bumpers, and roll-over targets. A supple wrist and keen eyes. English bank shots. The Who. At 60, this is my hip pain.  Also, my favorite peach halter, embroidered elephant leg bell bottoms, and hips slender, young leaning against Flash. Pain free.  Now. A silver ball bouncing nerves. Fracturedbone bumping…

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    Bioluminescence by Rabiu Temidayo

    November 1, 2019

    A Memento, In Situ by Lisa Short

    May 15, 2022

    Rhododendron by Lucy Whitehead

    November 1, 2019
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    Mission Bell by Rory Tanner

    April 4, 2020 /

             “Nobody knows where it was cast. But they do tell a story about it: that it was pledged to St. Joseph in the wars with the Moors, and that the people of some besieged city brought all their plate and silver and gold ornaments and threw them in with the…

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    SS St. Louis, 1939 by Merril D. Smith

    July 1, 2020

    Fairer by December Lace

    January 1, 2020

    A Dragon’s Tale by Bruce Louis Dodson

    January 1, 2020
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    Sleeping Beauty by Christina Ciufo

    April 4, 2020 /

    In a decrypted charcoal stone tower interwoven with thorn vines,  beyond the tattered, transparent  white veil, lays a slumbering  angelic maiden, cursed  by a covetous fairy who recited  a veracious incantation on her  Christening.  Her marble face remains untouched  for hundreds of years, while the world,  a time she once…

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    In February by Rodd Whelpley

    July 1, 2019

    This Shattered Sky by Evan James Sheldon

    January 1, 2020

    Father Time by Christine A. Brooks

    January 1, 2019
  • Issue 8,  Poetry

    The Light That Shone Here by Ciéra Cree

    April 4, 2020 /

    This place of shadow is discontent         a mouth spitting out     lips of blackan alleyway unsheltered.Wasn’t there a streetlight here? What breath does out of sun                   goes unrecorded.Perhaps that’s for the better.Run along, sweet child,   with a face like yours   a fate won’t last long untampered This sphere is a rather heavy dark,        obscure to see you…

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    Beyond Time by Yuan Changming

    July 1, 2019

    Mr. Edwards’ Dog by Michael Neal Morris

    May 1, 2019

    Ten Minutes Past Teatime by Elizabeth Chatsworth

    November 1, 2019
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