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Poetry, Special Issue

Soldier’s Lament by Matthew M.C. Smith

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 ____________________________________________________________…

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May 22, 2022
Fiction, Special Issue

Out in The Suck by Joseph S. Pete

No one ever warns you about just how boring war can be. Yeah, there’s that cliche we’ve all heard about war being “months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror.” …

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Purple Heart by Janet M. Greenstreet

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…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Here We Are by Ed Ahern

What can be said or doneAbout what hasn’t happened?Yet living in the momentturns away the inner eyefrom anticipated pleasuresand awaited fears.If we portray ourselvesas what we wish to be,perhaps we…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Aberrant Thought While in a Check-out Line by Ed Ahern

It’s okay to cry or smile in private,but if among others, even strangers,displaying our mood is at bestbad manners, and at worstdemented behavior to be evaded. But would it not…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Maggie’s Drawers* by Janet M. Greenstreet

Beyond smoking scrub, a red flag rises on a rifle. I hear O’Malley curse the almighty as we all deflate: exhausted, hungry, lice-infested, frozen. Stillness shrouds our brooding group. More hours…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

War Return by Catherine Zickgraf

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…

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May 21, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Ready or Not by Frank Light

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…

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May 21, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Khormaskar by Matthew M.C. Smith

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…

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May 22, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Redeployed by Catherine Zickgraf

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,…

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May 21, 2022
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  • Fiction,  Issue 10

    Stanley’s Time by Robert Pope

    October 1, 2020 /

    As I have been playing with the idea of writing a time travel story, several ideas have occurred to me. Some of these ‘ideas’ I don’t remember anymore. I should have written them all down, but I always imagine any idea worth developing will be memorable. As a result, I…

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    Arbutus by Frances Boyle

    November 1, 2019

    happy b-day. by Taryn Dixon

    March 1, 2019

    To Waste a Whole Heart in One Kiss by Carys Crossen

    April 4, 2020
  • Art,  Creative Study,  Issue 10

    Creative Study: Juliette van der Molen

    October 1, 2020 /

    Artist Statement: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” -Samuel Clemens As an author and artist with an affinity for history, I think a lot about the quote above. I surround myself with history whenever I can. As I type this statement, an Underwood Standard Typewriter sits in the…

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    Creative Study: Fabrice Poussin

    May 1, 2019

    Hercules Takes a Walk by Merril D. Smith

    January 1, 2019

    Foreshadowing by Juliette Sebock

    July 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 10,  Serializations

    A Peculiar Count in Time, Part 3 by M.K. Beutymhill

    October 1, 2020 /

    Click here to read Part 1.Click here to read Part 2. Loir-et-Cher, France 1742Château de Chambord, in search of the alchemist Count of St. Germain A return to the northern European climate was a relief, not only for the familiar trees and air, but because the black stone had lost so much of its…

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    Jefferson Island, 1980 by Jack. B. Bedell

    November 1, 2019

    The Space Between Moments by Alexis Hunter

    January 1, 2019

    If Someday by Sarah Marquez

    January 1, 2020
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    Mr. Walton by Urmila Rampersaud

    October 1, 2020 /

    I last saw him that Sunday. Sitting on an old pine log like a nuthatchstaring at the white morning glory in his garden. With quivering hands, he waved as the passersby called out, “Mr.Walton”.Words bounced off his lips but never reached an ear.He smiled as two squirrels ran pass him…

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    Crow Barn by DC Diamondopolous

    April 4, 2020

    Trace by McCaela Prentice

    July 1, 2020

    Come Home Soldier by Christina Ciufo

    May 15, 2022
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    Follow the Sound of the Waves of the Sea by S. T. Brant

    October 1, 2020 /

         i.            The sound of the Waves of EnvyLocks the gate to Life.Strand us on Styx’s shoresAll eternity to look upon the living mingle:The open air of joys forsworn forThe odes of misery we sing, we sing, we sing.      ii.            The sound of the Waves of MayaFull of Belief, and Hope, and Happy-The…

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    The Soldier by James Piatt

    May 15, 2022

    Witness by Scott Elder

    November 1, 2019

    Table of Contents: Issue 3

    May 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 10

    Relent by Kristine Brown

    October 1, 2020 /

    And I was off, pedaling madly on a dusty dirt road, my disheveled ponytail damp with sweat. Messy bun. Ball of keratin stress. I winced in pain, my thumbs bleeding, brandishing shredded, gnawed-on hangnails. Though usually self-conscious, wincing at the very thought of hurting myself, I paid no heed to…

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    On the Proper Use of Mosquitoes by Roppotucha Greenberg

    January 1, 2019

    Witness by Scott Elder

    November 1, 2019

    Erysikthon by Phyllis Meshulam

    January 1, 2020
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    Janus by Abigail Pearson

    October 1, 2020 /

    to be bright       and carry oni wanted in       but also wanted outyou all looked like dancing mummies from here andthe bedroom is always safe for me friendship          or i hate herfucking               but also i’m hungrymind over make, i can’t decide for myself and slowly i’m driving you to insanity  singer                               or killerholding   hands              or break up foreverthe…

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    Thread and its Origin by Shawn Anto

    March 1, 2019

    Old World by C.L. Spillard

    March 1, 2019

    The Wedding March by Elizabeth Chatsworth

    January 1, 2020
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    I don’t want your future, mother by b.i.w

    October 1, 2020 /

    dear future me  i felt bad that morning  looking at your imperfect posture when you sat sad deep-like-a-well black eyes  I truly felt bad  although A lot may say I didn’t because I left at the end  but they all (or maybe none)  have to know that that was me I…

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    The Time Traveller by Lucy Whitehead

    May 1, 2019

    The Myth of Ophephone and Atlantis by Amanda N. Butler

    September 1, 2019

    Q&A with Author Michael Chin

    September 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 10

    A Medieval Tale by Regina Clarke

    October 1, 2020 /

    In a late spring rain, the monk made his way along the covered stone path. Glancing out toward the garden where lay brothers were setting out new plants, undeterred by the weather, he gave a sigh and sat down on a bench to rest. By all accounts, his journey was…

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    When We Were Neanderthals by Raymond Luczak

    July 1, 2019

    Falling Through Time by Kim Michelle Ross

    January 1, 2019

    Letter from the Editor

    January 1, 2019
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    A Glimmer by Jason de Koff

    October 1, 2020 /

    The fog’s incandescent glow at full moon,creates shapeshifters from shadows,like a blind man, the smells and sounds,become more effusive than ever. The drip, drop cadence of the bobbing vessels,portray the sound of gunshots ricocheting around the harbor,or perhaps, it is the step of otherworldly beings,seeking their betrothed from the land…

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    Los Angeles, 1952, Part 2 by Wayne Turmel

    November 1, 2019

    Visupada by Srivalli Rekha

    May 1, 2019

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

    January 1, 2020
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