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Poetry, Special Issue

Omaha Beach, Normandy by Danny P. Barbare

Whatdoeshesee lookingoutthekitchenwindow smokingacigarette anddrinkingaMillerbeer? Statement from the author: I would get up in the middle of the night and dad would be drinking a Miller beer. Looking out the dark…

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May 15, 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
Poetry, Special Issue

The V.A. Waiting Room, PTSD Counseling, 11 a.m. by Ron Riekki

I am waiting.I am waitingto go from one roomto another room.I used to waitto go from one baseto another base.I went from a basewhere a guy committed suicideto a base…

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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
Flash Fiction, Special Issue

Lava by Robert Libbey

“You a thief like your friend?” called a voice from the back room. The tips of my fingers left prints on a dusty soap wrapper. “You have any tissues?” I…

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May 15, 2022
Special Issue

Letter from the Editor

In May 2019, Adrienne, Craig, and I embarked on a new adventure — a charity anthology. But not just for any cause. It was for one my near and dear…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

Valor Concealed by Jason O’Toole

Finally, Paris.Way of Utah Beach,Battle of the Bulge,              Buchenwald. “Now Entering GermanyCourtesy of the Super Sixth” Grandpa as a young tourist.First trip abroad,stops along The River Seine.Garand over shoulder slung. Handsome in…

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May 15, 2022
Poetry, Special Issue

The Soldier by James Piatt

The pale, lonely man exists in a patchwork put together-life, his parts held together with Elmer’s glue, and bailing wire. His soul… dark brown like Bourbon and Coca Cola; he is…

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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

A Graveyard for Soldiers by James Piatt

In a graveyard for soldiers under a frowning moon, birds eschew the crumbs of dry bones of dead warriors, dogs curve around the boundaries as they sense the odor of…

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May 15, 2022
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  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    Perfect Timing by Jason de Koff

    October 1, 2020 /

    What is sleep,but the hard reset,of the mind.The brain changes configuration,releasing toxins,dispensing cookies. Repairing the damage,from cortisol-induced stresses,reducing sharp edges among the folds,Bringing to question,whether names can’t hurt you,as physical tolls prove otherwise. Flushing the system,with the means to motivate,and shape the daily masterpiece.Defined by what is left,the salvaged energy…

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    Telling Stories by James Diaz

    January 1, 2020

    Falling Through Time by Kim Michelle Ross

    January 1, 2019

    Jake’s Place by Karen Pierce Gonzalez

    July 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 10

    Dating Tips and Tricks by Tim Peterson

    October 1, 2020 /

    If you knew Raymond, you’d think a bookstore would be the perfect place for him to meet a woman. Ideally, a nerdy pretty woman in a whimsical hat sipping a cappuccino by the window while a local poet reads something clever over the sound of acoustic guitar. Maybe the whimsical…

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    Bioluminescence by Rabiu Temidayo

    November 1, 2019

    Relent by Kristine Brown

    October 1, 2020

    Luminosity by Anita Goveas

    January 1, 2019
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    Any Measure by J.L. Lapinel

    October 1, 2020 /

    You are so weird was the most loving thing my mother said and you speak Spanish that sounds like Armenian  but her arms were smooth and smelled like bread and she would let me write on her feetin pen and rasp off the lettersin dusty callus powder my words shredded and dismissed below her little undefined feet with unspoiled perfectly aligned toes two…

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    Beyond Time by Yuan Changming

    July 1, 2019

    Dien Bien Phu, 1954 by Wayne Turmel

    March 1, 2019

    Big Bang and You! by Dr. Shawn Adair Johnston

    July 1, 2019
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    Recumbent Pudica by J.L. Lapinel

    October 1, 2020 /

    I was spit out the other end of an arrogance high a confident saunter into adult separationas if peeling the dysfunction from my skin would lead to a cellular replacement  Now a renewed adolescentI yearn for the small angled reflective pieces of a dissolving (dys)funhouse No, you wouldn’t fit through the keyhole it’s made custom for my skeletal…

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    Memory, Time: A Poem in Movable Parts by Mark Fitzpatrick

    July 1, 2019

    The Glass Bottle Sang “I Ain’t Got Time Anymore” in 1971 by Kenneth Pobo

    November 1, 2019

    Body clock by Pepita Beck

    September 1, 2019
  • Fiction,  Issue 10

    The Cobbler by Jay Bechtol

    October 1, 2020 /

    Finn snorted his disapproval through a nose eternally out of joint. He’d seen better rainbows tattooed on the forearms of dead sailors. The mural covering the old cinderblock wall appeared as if it had been applied by a couple of eight year olds on a dare. The word “Libertad!” highlighted…

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    Buried by Monica Kagan

    January 1, 2019

    The Shadows at Night by Joshua Ian

    September 1, 2019

    A Nighttime Meditation by Dah

    September 1, 2019
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    The cabinet by Katie Jenkins

    October 1, 2020 /

    my strange claw-footedsovereign of the attic landing glass laying openyour filigree ribcage  a deco display casequiet as a casket protecting the proxies of people I’ve loved  an incomplete tea-seta coronation mug two model aeroplanesthree porcelain toads what heirlooms await you a Lladro figurineslender and gleaming a mallard-shapedpencil sharpener some old first editionI…

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    Crow Barn by DC Diamondopolous

    April 4, 2020

    Rosabelle, believe by Kate Garrett

    January 1, 2019

    Los Angeles, 1952, Part 1 by Wayne Turmel

    September 1, 2019
  • Issue 10,  Poetry

    The Red Shoes by Katie Jenkins

    October 1, 2020 /

    I dance through sleep while others dream the stars on their distant throneare nothing to me there will be no more stained glassno incantations I dance through griefwhile others mourn my tears are nothing to me I am no-one’s beloved  I am a ribbon whipping on the wind my feet are…

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    Quantum Love Letters by Meagan Noel Hart

    July 1, 2019

    Ten Minutes Past Teatime by Elizabeth Chatsworth

    November 1, 2019

    Jefferson Island, 1980 by Jack. B. Bedell

    November 1, 2019
  • Issue 10

    Table of Contents: Issue 10

    October 1, 2020 /

    Prepare to be taken on a journey to somewhen! The Red ShoesKatie Jenkins The cabinetKatie Jenkins The CobblerJay Bechtol Recumbent PudicaJ.L. Lapinel Any MeasureJ.L. Lapinel Dating Tips and TricksTim Peterson She can’t help herselfMary Ford Neal Stanley’s TimeRobert Pope Perfect TimingJason de Koff A GlimmerJason de Koff A Medieval TaleRegina…

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    Souls to sell, bots for hire by Russell Hemmell

    January 1, 2019

    Falling Through Time by Kim Michelle Ross

    January 1, 2019

    Into Dust by Craig Rodgers

    July 1, 2019
  • Issue 9

    Table of Contents: Issue 9

    July 1, 2020 /

    Prepare to be taken on a journey to somewhen! AirplanesJay Bechtol Milk TeethMcCaela Prentice TraceMcCaela Prentice A Tale of PeterEku Williams bean siKaren Steiger The Barrister’s Ballade in Oompa LoompishKristin Garth The Biggest News in HistoryAnderson Fonseca(translated by Toshiya Kamei) Love and Alzheimer’sAnannya Uberoi The Book ThiefAnannya Uberoi Tea and…

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    Everett by Kwami Nyamidie

    July 1, 2019

    Reading in the Twenty-Second Century by Keith Mark Gaboury

    November 1, 2019

    The Glass Bottle Sang “I Ain’t Got Time Anymore” in 1971 by Kenneth Pobo

    November 1, 2019
  • Issue 9,  Poetry

    bean si by Karen Steiger

    July 1, 2020 /

    What makes a woman a howling banshee?The one you hear through your bedroom’s locked window at midnight,the tall woman,her body wasted by grief,gray cloak hanging limply on her slumped shoulders,her green dress, once a rich velvet,now covered in wispy silver cobwebs,her dark eyes sunken and red with tears,her pale skin a…

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    The Nymph and the Maiden by Laura Kincaid

    January 1, 2020

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

    November 1, 2019

    Thank You For Your Service: An Anthology

    May 27, 2019
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