A Country With No Glasses
“Every day, my comrades’ gunshots echoed somewhere.” As a revolutionary army seizes power, strength is drawn from an object of…
Fiction
The Roboticist
“Art is slow, cumbersome and deliberate, but necessary.” An engrossing offering of flash fiction where obsession proves the only path…
Born Already
“Everything went off except the power in the room where the procedure was unfolding, the sacred place where we…
Delilah’s Burden
A work of fiction where a position of power is employed for pleasure, causing an unwitting hireling’s innocence to…
Plumb Pudding
A work of speculative, political fiction about a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who is destined to…
The Date
“Your life is your life. You have the right to own it, all of it, until your very last…
Adam & Evie
Tensions flare, and a relationship turns tumult, when the dreaded K-word appears… by: Alan Swyer Trying in vain to…
I’ll Show Him
A short work of fiction wherein the quality of one’s art is used as a measure of a person’s…
Mortar Prayers
“Nobody pays attention to my bad dream, my outburst. Everybody’s tending their own crop of horrors.” A short work…
Best of Across The Margin 2019, Fiction
As 2019 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured…
A Real Doll
An offering of Flash Fiction where a traveler indulges in the fancies of his hypocrisy… by: Karen Schauber ((Header art…
Running Out Of Time
A lethal goddess, a savage beast, and a band of unsuspecting passerby converge, to chilling results… by: Frederick Foote I…