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Short Fiction and Poetry


The Art of Death; Air Hockey Club by George Sandifer-Smith
My bells sings from my gold
and black-washed neck, slinking
between the monuments, rolling on
stones that dance [...]


The Mirror That Time Forgot by Paul Smith
Berghoff’s is a great place to eat, drink and remember. I come here fairly often, usually to ogle our bartender, Jackie [...]


The Vampire by Douglas Walters
I saw a man tonight who obviously
Did not belong;
He walked amongst his children
And they were all bathed
In silver; [...]


The Lure by Helen Laycock
The three boys cycling along the bank skidded to a grating halt and threw down their bikes in a cloud of gravel. [...]


Lacuna; Imbolc by Erin Emily Ann Vance
We found a warning carved into a rock
so my brothers rolled it into the culvert
on the side of the road. [...]


After the Storm by Robert Earle
The bedroom had survived the storm, barely: sheets thrashed and twisted, lampshade on the night table askew, magazine splayed [...]


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. [...]
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