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Short Fiction and Poetry


Baboons on Golden Background
The sun’s intensity was now shifting, almost horizontal, and the noon shadows—scarce as they were among stone ledgers and sand [...]


Saskatchewan by Gregg Norman
Home to a hobby farm
From a small-town 9 to 5
Gravel crunching under wheels
Long dust boiling out behind [...]


For Whom the Bell Tolls by Lena Solomon
Through yet unimagined,
particles of sound, or waves,
if you will
the calls of bells
blast out of every flower, [...]


The Reading of Miss Willie by Anne Hendricks
I spent my youth running from my past. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” became my compass, though the roads I chose often led to dead ends [...]


The Bell Jar by Joe Martelle
Somewhere from the other side of his dream, Edward could hear the ringing. It reached across the landscape of subconscious [...]


Untitled by Chris Klassen
I need a final peaceful resting place, I said to God, after all these years searching. I've tried finding it on my own [...]


Frankenstein Reawakened by Kenneth Vincent Walker
A hideous, disfigured,
Creature made of limbs
And spare parts; a lump
Of grotesque flesh [...]


Magpie Dreams by Joan Harvey
The snow moves in
Light drifts through fog
I wake too early
I sleep too late. [...]


Polaroids of Tomorrow by Andrew John Lafleche
aunt joan died last night
2 a.m. crying in her sleep
five days shy of august [...]


Art Therapy Poetry by Crystal Hurdle
Magda is hospitalized
her body colonized
her head on fire.
She flails.
Her busy hands claw empty air. [...]
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