Hocus
by: Matthew Heiti It’s strange how things fall apart. One piece at a time so you almost don’t notice……
Fiction
Everyone Carries, Ten Years Later
A story that envisions a bold future where the only victims of gun violence are those who choose not…
The Fish are Biting on the River Styx
Nothing is as it seems on the tempestuous waterways that cut through the Underworld… by: Kathryn Ross It was a cold…
Two Flashes: A Comparison & The Time in Between
by: T.E. Cowell Two offerings of flash fiction that lament upon those pivotal junctures in life… A Comparison Helen, one…
Doing Time
Sometimes people fight the system just to keep from being crushed into conformity, and sometimes people fight just because…
Laughter
by: Shawn Yager (Header photograph of the Statues in Jandia taken by Tony Hisgett.) The mirth of children, the…
Black Canvas Athletes
by: Tristan Kneschke Competition, compulsion, and companionship – a story told in 8 bits… Trinidad checks her crumpled shopping…
Finding Nevine
by: Laura Vroom An edifying tale, where desires of the heart are communal, and heartache abounds…. Ell laid on the…
It Begins
by: Michael Shields ((Header photographs from the current California wildfires were taken by Josh Edelson.)) A foreboding piece of fiction…
A Bouquet of Daisies
A story that considers true love’s enduring ache, while begging the question: What’s the point of pain if you don’t…
The V_C_ Trilogy
by: Frederick Foote A trio of tales existing at the fringes of the heart but fully entrenched in the…
In Retrospect: Contra
By: Lance Bean ((Lewis H. Montaug)) Scorpion reminisces about his days “in the shit” with Mad Dog and the…