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  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Soldier’s Lament by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    He’d have got meif I hadn’t got him first but I took a lifeI will always be alone I will take him with meto my graveGod rest his soul ____________________________________________________________ Matthew M.C. Smith is a Welsh poet from Swansea. He is published by Icefloe Press, Wellington Street Review, Seventh Quarry,…

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    countdown by RC deWinter

    July 1, 2019

    Next of Kin by Kristin Garth

    April 4, 2020

    Table of Contents: Issue 3

    May 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Khormaskar by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    In 1967, the Royal Marines were sent to South Yemen to support the evacuation of the British from the port of Aden, a colony. My father was in Four Five Commando unit.                      I Aden, South Yemen, ‘67,Empire’s light on eastern straits.Blades beating, rotor thunderWestlands thump, ascend, gyre;break, split from assault…

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    Salem, 1692 by Merril D. Smith

    July 1, 2020

    In the Days Leading Up to Your Death by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022

    On the Proper Use of Mosquitoes by Roppotucha Greenberg

    January 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Four Five Commando by Matthew M.C. Smith

    May 22, 2022 /

    Dartmoor speedmarch ’6630 miles, do or die,de-humans, rake-thin,carry loads on backs.Thick boots, breath-beaten,noses, jaws, like bladesof cattle boneslittered on route. Men of arms,of Four Five Commando,see beyond the upland hill-rim;a promise of rainto a green beretbeyond spit, pain. Checkpoints of stones,jokes are thin,frame-ache, sting of sweat,body-rack past forest trackswhere whippet-lads leadand…

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    Honor Box by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022

    Come Home Soldier by Christina Ciufo

    May 15, 2022

    Big Bang and You! by Dr. Shawn Adair Johnston

    July 1, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Ready or Not by Frank Light

    May 21, 2022 /

    Hearing no evil, fearing no manprospective friends alreadycomfortable in their own sins and pancho linerssleep the sleep of regular hoursundisturbed by passing showersundetected scouts or unresolved doubtslet alone the zoned-out still up-and-about newbie too many days in transit, temporarily moodyantsy, goosy, small-town rube with much to prove, Repo Ray broods heblew his…

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    Camelot Triangle by Allen Ashley

    November 1, 2019

    C-A-G-E-D by Nancy Brewka-Clark

    January 1, 2020

    The Little Mermaid Contemplates the Knife by Allison Armstrong

    January 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    At the Airport by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    I bring our children with chestnut hair.We mixed ourselves making them, saw we faredwell in an untested marriage.  For a decade, thin cottonwrapped the bed.  At night, all poverty forgotten. But we separated again—he went to war, mortars of nailsand oven air.  At home, I handled homework and ailments.I knew…

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    There’s only a one way ticket in a streetcar named Desire by Satya Dash

    November 1, 2019

    Ripe with Promise by Karen Pierce Gonzalez

    September 1, 2019

    Best of the Net Nominations: 2019

    August 30, 2019
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Redeployed by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    She crochets upstairsfrom his lonely chair,tuning out the rockets of July-smoke sky. For bills not flags, yetshe chained her youthto the steel of his military-morgue toe-tag. Under lashes like willows, still she weeps,feeling how his fingerslast brushed along hers.  Her dreams pull skeins,and months of stitchingare years she blankets in…

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    The Lady in the Mirror by Scott Elder

    May 1, 2019

    Point Blank, Part 2 by Paige Bagby

    May 1, 2019

    Letter from the Editor

    April 4, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    War Return by Catherine Zickgraf

    May 21, 2022 /

    She’s mentally moving him in, refreshing the drawer of cotton undershirts, stackinghis tees in rectangles, ironing polo collars. His irises will glow again as sapphire and jade waves of shirts layering the marriage quilt. She’s moving over, moving over to her own side of the bed. They’ll fuse their     divided ship, co-captain it. Yet…

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    Jefferson Island, 1980 by Jack. B. Bedell

    November 1, 2019

    time machine by A.H. Lewis

    September 1, 2019

    March of the Dryads by J.B. Stone

    January 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    In the Days Leading Up to Your Death by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    You saw someone without a face waiting in whitesitting on your hospital cot against the dried-up paneled wall of our living room. we were watching Antiques Roadshow He arrived a few days before silently walking around the house room to roomrustling corner cobwebs. Our conversation lingered over who he might be what he may wantwhy only…

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    The Little Mermaid Contemplates the Knife by Allison Armstrong

    January 1, 2020

    The Ancient House by Ashley Bullen-Cutting

    January 1, 2019

    This Shattered Sky by Evan James Sheldon

    January 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Purple Heart by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    From a pallet on the ground I write home that my shrapnel wound is healing.I joke about being named to the hospital’s board of directors. This is not like any medical facility I have ever seen: dirt floor operating room, a single light bulb swinging overhead, air sprayed with blood…

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    Space Cake Oddity by Satya Dash

    November 1, 2019

    The Little People or Reflections on Driving Past Murdock McInnis by J.S. MacLean

    April 4, 2020

    The Barrister’s Ballade in Oompa Loompish by Kristin Garth

    July 1, 2020
  • Poetry,  Special Issue

    Domain of the Golden Dragon, January 1952 by Janet M. Greenstreet

    May 15, 2022 /

    Munitions jeeps abandoned, each mortar shell is carried to the front on our backs,brass logs peering like mournersover shoulders in solitary confinement. Dirt chokes oxygen from a listless sky, the surrounding hills laugh at such fools. I advance gray and numban odd levitation—no sensation in my body. Remembering my younger self rowing across…

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    Low Hanging Fruit by Aviva Treger

    January 1, 2020

    A Lounge Full of Dead Queens by Haley Jenkins

    January 1, 2019

    Better Days by William Gilmer

    January 1, 2019
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