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Short Fiction and Poetry


The Ice Miner by Zeph Watkins
When I was young and alone and struggling through winter’s wallows, I used to lie on the couch and watch the ice miner [...]


For Some Reason by Jason Ryberg
The night sky is alive tonight
with glittering Diamels
and chittering super-strings
of crickets, [...]


Last Rodeo/Last Dance; Moon Water by Brittany Redd
And in the way of dying breeds, the last
of the cowboys burned away like blackened sugar,
his visage framed by flaming prairie [...]


Tara, Day by Day by Gareth Vieira
The room is painfully cryptic; outside, the street dissolves into night, shadow and light spills through the window. [...]


Incantation Du Jour by Thomas Piekarski
Send me astray where I can fling my heart away.
I’ll meet you there atop the stairs far from here. [...]


Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack.
I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]


Get Away by Catherine Austen
The road lay behind him in the darkness. Parents, little brother, neighbours and classmates all asleep. No one to watch him go. It was unsettling [...]


The Flowers by Sheila E. Murphy
The flowers warmed to the sound of her voice
When she sang in lower case her alto matte finish voice
Delicate petals half fell [...]


Little Women and The Batman: The Movie; The Good Sailor by Raquel Fletcher
Their families are pleased to announce the marriage of their children
Miss Jo March and Master Bruce Wayne on June 1, 1867 [...]


Just in Case by Richard Schreck
In the dark New Orleans night, Marta Novak left the university library and trudged across campus toward their apartment. [...]
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