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Summer 2026

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• The Night Aunt Gretchen Died — Daniel Tarker
• Every Manifestation of my Being — Alex R. Encomienda
• How Binny Rempson Lost His Pants — Sharyn Kolberg
• My Redacted Life — Ron Micci
• Breads of the World — Elizabeth Cohen

       FLASH FICTION & MICRO FICTION

• Red Balloon — John Brantingham
• Together — John Sheirer

       NOVELETTES

• The Sound of Hammering in the Evening — Mario Lowther
• The Maiden Who Wasn’t Afraid of Corpses — Dana Trick
• An Incident Has Occurred at the OneLife Center off Sunset and 73rd — Bevy Daniel
• Gina — Anne Georg

     NONFICTION

• The Lifetime of Trauma — Buddy Matt Coughlin

     PLAYS

• Oscar’s Last Line — Mark Knight

     POETRY

• Through Window Cracks — Grace Lee
• The Hollow Crown: The Invention of Zero^† — Gil Ludere
• Unfinished Exit — Claudia Wysocky
• Golden — J. Clifford Milligan
• A dragon was born in a stream — Karen Lee
• The Wind — Seungmin Kim
• Riffing on a Telecaster Guitar — Aubrey Moncrieffe
• Winter Rain — William Teets
• Crust Punks^† — G.M.H. Thompson
• Why I liked rehab — J. Clifford Milligan
• Portrait of a Thoroughbred — Janice Boland
• The Wife — Nick Romeo
• untitled — Oksana Lizunova
• Dada Days Are Here Again — PW Covington
• Construction — John Grey
• Don’t read this one, Mom — Katharine Schulz

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Spring 2026

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• Mitakuye Oyas’in — B.A. Brittingham
• You Got Coffee? — Randy Prachar
• Wind-Traveled Flower Seed — Anneliese Kappey
• Poppa Mike’s Tape — Kevin M. Folliard
• Childish Things — Tim Wright
• Housebound — Saleah Yusuf
• Magic as the Main Course — Elizabeth Demeter
• The Last Man Understanding — Michael Scholtes
• Head Whispers — Diana Gustafson
• Shadows of Sacrifice — Rachel V. Fewkes

       MICRO FICTION

• The Knitted Hat — Marie Anderson
• Drunk Dialing — Judy Voss

       NOVELETTES

• Twenty Short Chapters Concerning Rotterdam — Eamon Walsh
• Behind Enemy Lines — Axel Martens
• The Lady in a Spoon — Nicholas Richards

     POETRY

• Submission — J. Clifford Milligan
• Kindred — A. Kahn
• Pine Ridge After Midnight — David A. Lee
• Being Tiburcio by Falsetto — Daniel de Culla
• At Dusk — John Grey
• The Jade Fountain — John Tracy
• O to Live — Jason Bauer
• The Ditty of Topplers — Obiotika W. Toochukwu
• expressionism^† — margie marek
• I know what you’re thinking^† — Craig Kirchner
• Late War of Light — Salvatore Difalco
• The Meaning of Bibliomancy — Jennifer Ruth Jackson

     ART

• Grand Central at Dawn — Alec Halstead
• Threads of Sustenance — Jaayla Davidson
• Invitation To Physics — Manfred Hauben
• The Flower Moon – May — Carol Sommerfield
• Peach — H. Lee Messina
• Liquid Floral — Liz Peterson
• Girl in the Museum — Barbara Abram
• Cellular — Laura Piccone
• Abandoned but Not Forgotten — Janice Boland
• Laundry Day — Jennifer Barker Kuskovski
• Pulse — Julia Antonio
• Going Swimmingly — DC Calungsod
• Aurora 1 — Christine Adler

     FEATURES

• Kingmaker – The Raven’s Bloody Crown^† — a new novel by Axel Martens

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Fall 2025

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• Family Letters — Richard Stimac
• The Flight of the Skylarks — Don Reilly
• When the Leaves Fall — Chris Peit
• A Good Life — B. C. Nance
• Robot Stalker — Jubilant Lemon
• Unsaid, Undone — William Cass

       FLASH FICTION

• Red Balloon — John Brantingham
• Room-Temperature Coffee — Israel Allen
• One Hit Wonder — Judy Voss

       NOVELETTES

• Gina — Anne Georg

     NONFICTION

• All Saints’ Day — J.P.J. Fox

     POETRY

• Spatchcocked — Christine Potter
• Through Window Cracks — Grace Lee
• proving grounds — Mark Kessinger
• Metal Wall — Diane Webster
• The Fates Ride to Grand Central — Lawrence Miles
• Please Do Not Feed the Rats^† — Matthew Johnson
• Leap Year^† — Matthew Johnson
• Fast Food — Craig Kirchner
• Entropy — Craig Kirchner
• Hippy elephant — Kathryn Helena McCarthy
• En no Atari — Nick Romeo
• So What Am I Now? — Carole Johnston
• Sky Spinning — Carole Johnston
• Old-Fashioned Persimmon Pudding Recipe — Michael Brockley
• Life Studies — Joseph Kleponis
• no•thing~ness^† — margie marek
• ruthless^† — margie marek
• Summer by Crooked Lake — Yvonne Morris
• Attempts at Kintsugi — A. Kahn
• But, once. — Katie Tatela
• Shoes — Pia Borsheim
• Hot Box 2006 — Joey Colby Bernert
• Havenwyck 2007 — Joey Colby Bernert

     PLAYS

• Did You Hear What Happened At Robin Frisch’s Book Party? — David Marek

     FEATURES

• Featured Writer: Marilyn Pellini
• In Memoriam ~ Mary Coughlin (with Buddy Matt Coughlin)^†

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Summer 2025

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• The Improbable Journeys of The Möbius Ark: Part One — Gabriel Sebastian
• The Improbable Journeys of The Möbius Ark: Part Two — Gabriel Sebastian
• Confessions of an Alien — Subrata Das
• Dear Gran Damned — BJ Thoray
• Choices — margie marek
• For Want of Sleep — Alan Brickman
• The Interview — Axel Martens
• The Tennis Ball — Keith Manos
• The Blue Cat — Mohammad Soltani
• Outsourcing — Shaun O Ceallaigh

       NOVELETTES

• The Möbius Sequence: Solus Reckoning — S. A. Xylem

     NONFICTION

• Who Be the Monster? — Gabriel Sebastian
• May (A)I? — Axel Martens

     POETRY

• Geo-engineering Prayer — J. Clifford Milligan
• The Eclipse Winks in the Soul — Haeun Regina Kim
• Out of Time^† — S.T. Eleu
• The Hollow Crown: The Invention of Zero^† — Gil Ludere

     FEATURES

• Featured Writer: Gabriel Sebastian^†

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Spring 2025

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• Dali’s Elephant — Bunting S
• No Visible Injuries — Brian Mosher
• Awakening — Soidenet Gue
• Clowns and Frowns — Marco Etheridge
• Not My Dog — Jade Scardham
• Dancing O’Hanlon — Dennis McFadden
• Shadow-fighting — Christie Cochrell

       FLASH FICTION

• Permission — Kim Hayes
• Just Another Day — Rosanne Trost

     NONFICTION

• Lost Sister Lyric: As If You Were Here — Chila Woychik
• The Bumpy Road to Sanity — Galya D. Bacheva
• I Have Outlived Myself — Martin O’Malley

     POETRY

• Atheist — Ken Anderson
• A Thief Within — Michael Roque
• Coin Laundromat — Allan Lake
• Monitoring — Chris Litsey
• Unfinished Exit — Claudia Wysocky
• I fell in love at the zoo the weekend before radiation treatment — Alex Stolis
• Anhedonia — Alex Stolis
• Life Unfolded like a Flower — Peter Mladinic
• There for the Hatch — Richard Jordan
• She Wears Bengals on Her Wrist^† — Nick Romeo
• the lookout — Julie Allyn Johnson
• Ley Lines — A. Kahn
• obfuscalation — margie marek
• Seven Years a Horse — Janice Boland
• Monday^† — Craig Kirchner
• The Writers Gathering in a Dream — Diana Raab
• The Fastest Boy in School^† — Alex Shafer
• Going to Astoria^† — Alex Shafer
• Statuesque Inclinations^† — Angela Acosta
• Brown Bottle Man — Heidi Hermanson
• Never-Ending February 24 — Stan Galloway
• Poeticus Interruptus II^† — Jim Murdoch
• Moments — Susan Krauss
• Long Forgotten Things — Shikha S. Lamba
• Stressed Plants Cry — Shikha S. Lamba

     PLAYS

• Reunion — Larry Kraft

     FEATURES

• Journey of a Freedom Fighter — a new novel by Subrata Das
• Featured Poet: Nick Romeo^†

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Fall 2024

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• Pilgrimage — Stephen Price
• Good Old Harry Hanratty — Terry John Malik
• My Redacted Life — Ron Micci
• 1932 — DC Diamondopolous
• Two Steps Ahead — Brian Mosher
• The Stone Lifter — James W. Morris
• St. Pauli Girl — Michael Chouinard
• Herstory: Wounds That Can Never Heal — Jeanie Sisinni Fitchen
• Hungry — J.P.J. Fox
• Grimalkin Where the Roads Part — Jonah Jones

       FLASH FICTION

• Fishers Lake — Patricia Ann Bowen

       NOVELETTES

• The Electric Fence — Max Klement
• Selective Preoccupation — Michael Chin

     NONFICTION

• My 57 Chevy — Janice Boland

     POETRY

• Lies Quiet — Diane Webster
• Interview in a Golf Cart^† — G.M.H. Thompson
• A Bourgeoisie House Show^† — G.M.H. Thompson
• Party Line^† — Craig Kirchner
• Lofton — Josh Young
• Golden — J. Clifford Milligan
• Luddite 2024 — J. Clifford Milligan
• we are all just stars that have people names — Yoon Park
• A dragon was born in a stream — Karen Lee
• Desserts and Blossoms — Grace Lee
• The Wind — Seungmin Kim
• In His Solitude — Lynn White
• We Are Not Always^† — Melanie Perish
• Liar’s Poker — William Teets
• Rebar and Concrete — William Teets
• Ghosts of the Town — Joseph Kleponis
• Shelly — Michael Brockley
• Backyard Dreams — Ramesh Dohan
• Lasso the Moon^† — Caitlin O’Halloran
• River Calls — Sara Sarna
• Alone — Kenneth Oduah
• Riffing on a Telecaster Guitar — Aubrey Moncrieffe
• cold–blooded masquerade — Nikkilee Kozminsky

     FEATURES

• Featured Poet: John Grey

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Spring 2024

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• Breads of the World — Elizabeth Cohen
• Mike, the Good Son — Richard Natale
• Just One Look — D. Reed Whittaker
• Isn’t He Your Husband? — John Perilli
• The End of Pi — A. N. Myers
• The Joneses — Danielle Vecchio
• LUCI — Axel Martens

       FLASH FICTION

• The Other Father — Salvatore Difalco
• Road Kill — Judy Voss
• This Thursday — J.P.J. Fox
• Moving On — Dan Brook

       MICRO FICTION

• Rest After Creation^† — Marcelo Medone
• Mr. Monopoly Rides Again — Sarah Daly

       NOVELETTES

• Way Down Deep — Chere Taylor
• Escape Your Life — I.J. Miller

     NONFICTION

• The End of the Story — Patty Somlo

     POETRY

• Oh Lordy! — Christopher Barnes
• The Princess and the Pea — Jacqueline Jules
• Loop — Allison Whittenberg
• City Portrait — Massimo Vito Avantaggiato
• Father — Lauren Scharhag
• sunday obsequies — Joseph A Farina
• Mise-en-abîmes — Emily Bilman
• Fairytale — Albert N. Katz
• Tornado Children — John Grey
• sugar like sweet sweet sorrow^† — Anyély Gómez‑Dickerson
• Anti Ante Somnum — Nick Romeo
• Crust Punks^† — G.M.H. Thompson
• No Party Tonight^† — Gerald Yelle
• small birds — Natalie Fraser
• Maui^† — Rosalie Hendon
• Yard sale^† — K Weber
• Butch Cassidy and Me Jumping — E. Martin Pedersen
• Winter Rain — William Teets
• Why I liked rehab — J. Clifford Milligan
• Oh, Darwin^† — Nikkilee Kozminsky

     FEATURES

• Featured Writer: Axel Martens
• Young Writers Creative Writing Seminar
  • Field Trip of Doom — Rosie DiLeonardo
  • Polished Soil — Viviana Iglesia
  • The Story of Kate and Jude — Anastasia Murphy

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Fall 2023

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• Nyack’s Choice — Evie Groch
• When the McAllister Boy Came Home — Maureen Mancini Amaturo
• The Man on Purple — Peace Nkeiruka Maduako
• Free Write — Maggie Nerz Iribarne
• The Surprising Effect of a Dewy Grass Bath — Jeanne Althouse
• The Nightmare Shop — Roly Andrews
• Just an Ordinary Rainy Evening — Sushma Doshi
• Eight Over — Keith Manos
• Rose Talcum Powder — Mahvash Mohtadullah
• Time — Axel Martens

       FLASH FICTION

• The Last Trip Home — Judy Voss
• Dog Nose — Ryan Tan
• The Recital — E.C. Traganas

       MICRO FICTION

• Double Vision — Sarah Das Gupta
• Sunday Guy — J.P.J. Fox

       NOVELETTES

• An Incident Has Occurred at the OneLife Center off Sunset and 73rd — Bevy Daniel
• Potiphar’s Wife — Christine M. Du Bois

     NONFICTION

• Road Boasts — Malcolm Culleton
• In Search of Alice Munro – John RC Potter

     POETRY

• at work today^† — Ron Riekki
• Dynamic — James Croal Jackson
• The Forest — James Croal Jackson
• Strangers with Appreciation — James Croal Jackson
• Proof of Life — Salvatore Difalco
• I Never Understood^† — Lisa Low
• The Kiss^† — Lisa Low
• mindFULness^† — margie marek
• Portrait of a Thoroughbred — Janice Boland
• (untitled) — Eugen Spierer
• Inside the House — Jhemar Lagata
• Putting out Fires with Marshmallows — Ben Macnair
• Evening Gown^† — Barbara Alfaro
• The One Who Swam — John Grey
• this maroon water — Oksana Lizunova
• this impossibility — Oksana Lizunova
• sophistication of understanding — Oksana Lizunova
• Dreamy — Hunter Duffy
• Don’t forget the rain check.^† — Nikkilee Kozminsky
• Beget the Road Less Traveled.^† — Nikkilee Kozminsky
• Ply the River Bed^† — Gabriel Sebastian
• cut leaf tobacco^† — Gabriel Sebastian
• Dream called Love — Mimi Bordeaux

     FEATURES

• Featured Writer: Judy Voss
• Featured Poet: Nikkilee Kozminsky

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Spring 2023

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• If These Walls Could Talk — Mary Walsh Foley
• The Ambush — Axel Martens
• What The Man Says — William Baker
• Two Sides of a Card — Elizabeth Liang
• the inheritance — margie marek
• At Daybreak — Don Noel

       FLASH FICTION

• The Serial Daters — Judy Voss
• A Mother’s Prayer — P.A. Farrell

       MICRO FICTION

• Eau d’Ascenseur — J.P.J. Fox

       NOVELETTES

• Diablo Canyon Descent — Calla Gold
• Ramoun-a-shriv — Alice Archer

     NONFICTION

• Canned Peas — Janice Boland
• Strangers in the Bush — Susan Bloch

     POETRY

• Your Voice — Diana Raab
• Horse Feathers — Lawrence Miles
• spied her — margie marek
• Farmer’s Walls — D.F.
• Luna Moth — D.F.
• Croak — D.F.
• A Morning Heraldry — John Grey
• all wounds — Joseph A Farina
• From Time to Time — Edward Lee
• The doors of our dreams — Shuvra Das
• The Night I Dreamed of Dolphins — Marianne Tefft
• Synchronicity — Marianne Tefft
• The Stars — Dominik Slusarczyk
• Rome — Dominik Slusarczyk
• Duende — W Roger Carlisle
• Kissing Is a Sacrament — W Roger Carlisle
• Year of the Rat — Gregg Shapiro
• A Spring during the War — C. .J. Anderson‑Wu
• student — Lisa O’Neil Guerci
• Grandmother Moon — Chaya Ember Nadi
• The Wife — Nick Romeo
• Renewal Displacement Disruptive — Terry Trowbridge
• The Calling — Malaena Nahmias

     PLAYS

• Oscar’s Last Line — Mark Knight

     FEATURES

• Featured Writer: William Teets
• A Gathering of Poets
• The French Lover’s Wife

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Fall 2022

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• How Binny Rempson Lost His Pants — Sharyn Kolberg
• Sing Me a River — Steve Carr
• A Good Problem to Have — Kristin H. Sample
• In the Hollows of Their Throats — Scott Archer Jones
• Nobody Was Hurt — J.P.J. Fox
• The Kerchief — Adam Strassberg
• The Alien Guard — Leon Taylor

       FLASH FICTION

• Coffee Break — Don Noel
• Fashion Show Remix — Niles Reddick

       MICRO FICTION

• Together — John Sheirer
• Ouija Board — John Sheirer
• On the Side — Judy Voss

       NOVELETTES

• The Sound of Hammering in the Evening — Mario Lowther
• Rock Star at La Scala — DC Diamondopolous
• Lucky — William Cass

     NONFICTION

• Mass Transit — Malaena Nahmias

     POETRY

• Moon Laps — Susan Oleferuk
• May I have this dance? — Matt Chalmers
• (untitled) — Oksana Lizunova
• Never-again People — John Grey
• Learning a Trade — John Grey
• The Sensitive One — Chelsie Kreitzman
• Harvested Moons — Allan Lake
• In the bewitched aviary. — Paweł Markiewicz
• Poem of not-Hindu for Goddess Krishna — Paweł Markiewicz
• Obtuse Obscurantisms [iii] — Gerard Sarnat
• The wrong thing to say. — DS Maolalai
• Notes from a Freewheeling Orderly — Dennis J Bernstein
• Mary Quite Contrary — Jack D. Harvey
• So Subtle — R. A. Allen
• True Grit — John Dorroh
• While My Mother Worked the Early Shift — John Dorroh
• Pain/Killers — James Cochran
• Monarch Bonfire — James Cochran
• The Crone’s Fire — Mary Kennelly
• Outside My Window — Nazanin Mirsadeghi
• In My Dreams — Nazanin Mirsadeghi
• Tzevaot — Joshua Gage
• Guardian Angel — Joshua Gage
• Who’s Valid Now — William Teets
• Stone and Bone — William Teets
• autumn’s gift of dawn — Lisa O’Neil Guerci
• Today I Thought — Lisa O’Neil Guerci

     FEATURES

• Featured Artist: Janice Williams
• Featured Writer: J.P.J. Fox

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Spring 2022

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     FICTION

       FLASH FICTION

• Irreconcilable — Malaena Nahmias

       SHORT STORIES

• Every Manifestation of my Being — Alex R. Encomienda
• Tomorrow Is Best Forgotten — Terry John Malik
• Risky Biscuits — Judy Voss
• A Shadowed Sky — Catherine Alexander

       NOVELETTES

• Surface — Eadbhard McGowan
• The Maiden Who Wasn’t Afraid of Corpses — Dana Trick

       MICRO FICTION

• First Love — Judy Voss
• Buzz Off — J.P.J. Fox
• What God Hath Wrought — J.P.J. Fox

     NONFICTION

• Dumpster of Broken Dreams — Jeffrey Feingold

     POETRY

• The Beginning of Another End — Mahbubat Salahudeen
• Unearthly — Mahbubat Salahudeen
• The Woman I Favoritely Loved — Maid Čorbić
• Dada Days Are Here Again — PW Covington
• bathing in the mississippi — PW Covington
• Convict — Bidisha Chakraborty
• Sensual Dictates — Bidisha Chakraborty
• End of the Farming Year — John Grey
• My Evolution — John Grey
• A Meal of Herself — John Grey
• Printing Press — Angela Acosta
• Into Orbit — Angela Acosta
• 50 years after the summer of love — Joseph A Farina
• Leftovers — Pat St. Pierre
• Matryoshka — Oriada Dajko
• Craving — TAK Erzinger
• 40 D — George Perreault
• Downstream — George Perreault
• Compartmentalization — Jennifer Ruth Jackson
• Contrarian voices and status quo — Sunil Sharma
• The Only Way Out Is Through — Linda Tancs
• Art let me know — Lisa O’Neil Guerci
• Ghosted — Lisa O’Neil Guerci

     PLAYS

• Call Me on the Line — Veronica Brown

     FEATURES

• Featured Poet: Lisa O’Neil Guerci

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Fall 2021

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     FICTION

       FLASH FICTION

• Trick or Treat — J.P.J. Fox
• Rabid Bat Story – Niles Reddick
• The Bag – Niles Reddick

       SHORT STORIES

• Life Stories – Christina Hoag
• A Dog’s Life — Judy Voss
• The Night Aunt Gretchen Died – Daniel Tarker
• Fighting Father Malone — Richard Natale
• The Promise of the Yellow Box – Patricia Walkow
• Chickenpox Alumni Association International – Subrata Das

       NOVELETTES

• Morgan’s Disease – Mark Jabaut

     NONFICTION

• Make Mine Cognac — Barbara Alfaro

     POETRY

• Faces in the dirt, eyes of the sky — Katharine Schulz
• Follow the sounds you hear — Katharine Schulz
• Cardinal Spies Its Reflection In a Hub Cap — John Grey
• Construction — John Grey
• Let Those Engines Roar — Joseph A Farina
• Café — Arik Mitra
• Not Longer Than Smoke — Arik Mitra
• Red Veil — Bruce McRae
• Children of Chaos — Bruce McRae
• Name Sake — Bruce McRae
• Feng Shui — Shaswata Gangopadhyay
• Jack Muldoon and I — John Carew
• Lost Dream — Joan McNerney
• Woods — Joan McNerney
• Love Must Be Fire — Norbert Góra
• Nightly Topic — LaVern Spencer McCarthy
• Of Toil and Harvest — LaVern Spencer McCarthy
• Pictogram Explanations — Maid Čorbić
• Plastic Isle — Dee Allen
• A Still Beautiful Sky — Lisa O’Neil Guerci
• The Evidence — P. Muralidharan
• Beholden Love Song — Gabriel Sebastian
• How I Learned to Stop Scratching and Love the Bomb — Katharine Schulz

     PLAYS

• Old Friends — Dave Patton

     FEATURES

• Featured Poet: Katharine Schulz
• In Memoriam ~ Scott E. Smith

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Spring 2021

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     FICTION

• Bar Food — Judy Voss
• Shishkosh — Janet Garber
• The Girl with the Fu Manchu — Sheldon Hanner
• Lifeline — J.P.J. Fox
• The Artist — Patricia Young

     NONFICTION

• The Lifetime of Trauma — Buddy Matt Coughlin

     POETRY

• Souldust — Lisa O’Neil Guerci
• Patsy & the Monkey — Katharine Schulz
• Wait, Wait — Gabriel Sebastian
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