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Short Fiction and Poetry


Eden; The World Is Round by Peter Roberts
lenticular clouds
compress logarithmically
to the far horizon. [...]


Reset Again; Family Reunion by Screams of Unfettered Minds
In a holding cell unlike anything on Earth
Enrico #29091901 and other human detainees
Patiently await voluntary sterilisation [...]


Evolved by Renee Cronley
I am who nature needed me to be.
Humble beginnings—
a nomadic misfit living outdoors,
perpetually hungry [...]


Beyond Ballet; Keyhole by Margaret Adams Birth
Belly-down, torso twisting,
spiraling sculptural lines—
initiating ideas:
pantomime, plastic movement, stage deportment. [...]


Culvert Crowd by Lillibet Ray
Opening the door to the tavern
Rotten royal scent fuming
from the neck of an empty bourbon flask. [...]


The Face Of Time by J. Kerr
The face of time
A countenance of what is.
Long forgot is what was. Like dust from boot. [...]


Neither Reciprocation Nor Restitution Wanes by Colin James
There is an entity living behind my couch.
Occasionally it will grab a neck hair
freaking out the vacillating stoners. [...]


Routine Procedure With Advance Directive by Marda Messick
In the operating room before
I go onto the table, go under
& undergo the knife [...]


The Patchwork Poems by Sonja Boon
work and mendings
for criminal politics:
a handbook for hookers [...]


Closing Credits by Kenneth Vincent Walker
No need to awaken
Me from the depths
Of my sleep.


Bowl Prayer by Terry Trowbridge
Bowls made of wood. Trees made of time.
Rings measure volume, recipes,
and mark moments to scry [...]


So Like That; The Darkness of Night by Erich von Hungen
Down from the sky,
wings chop and cut and drop
to where the dead things lie
among the scattered plumes. [...]


Black Walnut Dye; Mycelium; When Chloe liked Olivia by Damon Hubbs
oftentimes when we walk Ravenswood
through pine and oak and past the boulder fields,
towards where the Hermit of Gloucester’s cabin [...]


Myrmecology Report; Tell Me Bee by Sally Zakariya
Not just a billion. Not even a trillion.
But twenty thousand trillion here on Earth.
Two and a half million for each one of us. [...]


Brochure as Memento Mori by Ian C Smith
Former Calulu Post Office it says, High Ceilings.
Lots of Shedding conjures a wry verb. [...]


A To-Do List For The Lost by Ruth Emeroe
1. In every tree, fairies are living. They giggle with the woodbugs and pour teeny tiny cups of tea while they listen to the wind. [...]


A Delicate Rose by R.P. Logan
It shouldn’t be so hard at this time of night,
when the bars are starting to close,
I passed on a violet and gave up on a lily, [...]


Wandering by Leigh Therriault
Be careful where you wander
within deep woods and dark hollows
when secrets could be waiting. [...]


3 Poems by Richard LeDue
We still only have a handful of earth
filling palms best left unread
because the ending ruined
long before we were ever born,[...]


On The Occasion of a Friend's Departure From Vienna by David Richard Beasley
The sexual and the spiritual
intermingle.
Tonight was I betrayed [...]
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