We’d lashed it down with chains. The links were like thick arms coiled together, pinning the beast down. Despite the… Read more The Last Dragon by Ben O’Hara

The old man in greasy coveralls stood on the back porch of his cinderblock ranch and surveyed the sprawling junkyard… Read more Durable Goods by Robert Tyler

…And With You             To be clear, the Treens weren’t my first alien race. The Thaldossians were impressive in their… Read more …And With You by Zeke Jarvis

An island Tuesday. In the singular green eyes of a cat, being is mirrored, unseen.   *   The possible… Read more 5 Poems from Margarita Serafimova

WORLD CHAMPIONS TO BE by George Ryan I never think about a biker’s sensitivity. I don’t expect any to take… Read more 3 Poems by George Ryan

North Country by Lyman Graves Glen Cartwright looks the wilderness in the eye and realizes he has no business here. Despite… Read more North Country by Lyman Graves

THE YELLOW MANUSCRIPT by Jenny Maloney Sylvie Andrews found the dead man’s hidden manuscript in the false bottom of a… Read more The Yellow Manuscript by Jenny Maloney

Among the Meep by Robert Pope I did not know Margaret before we arrived against our wills, totally in the… Read more Among the Meep by Robert Pope

Garden of God   i   When I was short my grandfather told me that the world sits like a… Read more Garden of God by Jake Shore

Don’t Go There by Tracy A. Cross   At bedtime, the little girl I babysat grabbed my shirt and whispered, “Don’t… Read more Don’t Go There by Tracy Cross

Parabiosis Brian had just finished a round of golf at the country club where he picked up a lead on… Read more Parabiosis by John David Hanna

Visitation by Cybele Garcia Kohel   La Virgen materialized to me- Me! on a car bumper a medallion of divinity… Read more Two Poems from Cybele Garcia Kohel

BLACK NOISE by Robert Beveridge “The things of this world are fluid, they/take our shape” –Keith Waldrop, “Legion’s Grammar”  … Read more Two Poems from Robert Beveridge

  The Openings By Ed Ahern It began thirty years ago when I was ten. My father came upstairs to… Read more The Openings

Riana and I had been talking about starting a journal together for months. We had meetings about it. We did… Read more Hello, Darlings