March 2025
Issue 93
March 2025
Issue 93
Poetry

Paul Zammit
“UAV,” “a boat tows a floating billboard,” and “Week 20”
formed against your own shadow,
diorama of the maxim that armies,
like lovers, come in pairs—
promulgate now in bulleted wisps,
conformist’s dark room dripping in chemical
& negative & clothes-pinned evidence

Louise Moises
“Snake in Our Midst,” ” House of Mirrors,” and “Entwined”
patio, a little girl,
discovers a snake
sunning itself
on a boulder
she runs into
the house
jubilantly reports
the presence…

Matthew Freeman
“Origins All the Time,” “Two Faces,” and “Arguing Again”
I have. Like when Lesbia
showed me the new Cure cassette in ‘92
I was able to pick out
what would be the most popular songs
in two seconds.

Holly Willis
“Shades of Red,” ” Indigo, Turmeric,” and “Out of Nowhere”
came to me suddenly
not blood, but red, reddish
and burning. Only
at first abrupt,
like a punch line, a
jawbone or
hallway carved

Joanne Jagoda
“The Sky a Flawless Blue,” “When your Muse has Left the Building,” and “My Own Little Beast”
the kind of California day,
that gets under your skin.
Scaffolds holding up the heavens
stretching against celestial infinity.
Is there a placeholder for me
in that expanse?

Robert Eugene Rubino
“I am the Tortoise,” “Greenland Isn’t Green,” and “Eating at Al Capone’s Soup Kitchen”
at the Junior Museum & Zoo.
Kids & grandparents all aflutter
flocking to public feeding time
in a fluff-and-strut club of cute.

Paul Zammit
“UAV,” “a boat tows a floating billboard,” and “Week 20”
formed against your own shadow,
diorama of the maxim that armies,
like lovers, come in pairs—
promulgate now in bulleted wisps,
conformist’s dark room dripping in chemical
& negative & clothes-pinned evidence

Louise Moises
“Snake in Our Midst,” ” House of Mirrors,” and “Entwined”
patio, a little girl,
discovers a snake
sunning itself
on a boulder
she runs into
the house
jubilantly reports
the presence…

Matthew Freeman
“Origins All the Time,” “Two Faces,” and “Arguing Again”
I have. Like when Lesbia
showed me the new Cure cassette in ‘92
I was able to pick out
what would be the most popular songs
in two seconds.

Holly Willis
“Shades of Red,” ” Indigo, Turmeric,” and “Out of Nowhere”
came to me suddenly
not blood, but red, reddish
and burning. Only
at first abrupt,
like a punch line, a
jawbone or
hallway carved

Joanne Jagoda
“The Sky a Flawless Blue,” “When your Muse has Left the Building,” and “My Own Little Beast”
the kind of California day,
that gets under your skin.
Scaffolds holding up the heavens
stretching against celestial infinity.
Is there a placeholder for me
in that expanse?

Robert Eugene Rubino
“I am the Tortoise,” “Greenland Isn’t Green,” and “Eating at Al Capone’s Soup Kitchen”
at the Junior Museum & Zoo.
Kids & grandparents all aflutter
flocking to public feeding time
in a fluff-and-strut club of cute.
Poetry

Paul Zammit
“UAV,” “a boat tows a floating billboard,” and “Week 20”
formed against your own shadow,
diorama of the maxim that armies,
like lovers, come in pairs—
promulgate now in bulleted wisps,
conformist’s dark room dripping in chemical
& negative & clothes-pinned evidence

Louise Moises
“Snake in Our Midst,” ” House of Mirrors,” and “Entwined”
patio, a little girl,
discovers a snake
sunning itself
on a boulder
she runs into
the house
jubilantly reports
the presence…

Matthew Freeman
“Origins All the Time,” “Two Faces,” and “Arguing Again”
I have. Like when Lesbia
showed me the new Cure cassette in ‘92
I was able to pick out
what would be the most popular songs
in two seconds.

Holly Willis
“Shades of Red,” ” Indigo, Turmeric,” and “Out of Nowhere”
came to me suddenly
not blood, but red, reddish
and burning. Only
at first abrupt,
like a punch line, a
jawbone or
hallway carved

Joanne Jagoda
“The Sky a Flawless Blue,” “When your Muse has Left the Building,” and “My Own Little Beast”
the kind of California day,
that gets under your skin.
Scaffolds holding up the heavens
stretching against celestial infinity.
Is there a placeholder for me
in that expanse?

Robert Eugene Rubino
“I am the Tortoise,” “Greenland Isn’t Green,” and “Eating at Al Capone’s Soup Kitchen”
at the Junior Museum & Zoo.
Kids & grandparents all aflutter
flocking to public feeding time
in a fluff-and-strut club of cute.
Short Story
New Fiction

Baxter Mitchell-Knight
Death Beyond Innocence

Linda Heller
Side Effects

Mark Knego
The Story of a Girl Who Lives in the City That Sparkles

Ryan Nachnani
Therefore I Am
I’ve had too much time on my hands since we arrived in Rexdale — settled down in a barren basement where I thought our dreams would take form.

Peggi McCarthy
Who Could Ask For Anything More?

Michelle Lowes
How to Ride an Ostrich

Baxter Mitchell-Knight
Death Beyond Innocence

Linda Heller
Side Effects

Mark Knego
The Story of a Girl Who Lives in the City That Sparkles

Ryan Nachnani
Therefore I Am
I’ve had too much time on my hands since we arrived in Rexdale — settled down in a barren basement where I thought our dreams would take form.

Peggi McCarthy
Who Could Ask For Anything More?

Michelle Lowes
How to Ride an Ostrich

Baxter Mitchell-Knight
Death Beyond Innocence

Linda Heller
Side Effects

Mark Knego
The Story of a Girl Who Lives in the City That Sparkles

Ryan Nachnani
Therefore I Am
I’ve had too much time on my hands since we arrived in Rexdale — settled down in a barren basement where I thought our dreams would take form.

Peggi McCarthy
Who Could Ask For Anything More?

Michelle Lowes
How to Ride an Ostrich
Short Story

Baxter Mitchell-Knight
Death Beyond Innocence

Linda Heller
Side Effects

Mark Knego
The Story of a Girl Who Lives in the City That Sparkles

Ryan Nachnani
Therefore I Am
I’ve had too much time on my hands since we arrived in Rexdale — settled down in a barren basement where I thought our dreams would take form.

Peggi McCarthy
Who Could Ask For Anything More?

Michelle Lowes
How to Ride an Ostrich
Long Short Story

Karli Applestein
Ambuscade

Henry Lewis
The Kindness
The man was in his early fifties and needed a shave, the stubble just showing on his cheeks. His broad face and blinking eyes were set to the wind and had a curious look of detachment.

Sandro F. Piedrahita
Rival of the Sun

Karli Applestein
Ambuscade

Henry Lewis
The Kindness
The man was in his early fifties and needed a shave, the stubble just showing on his cheeks. His broad face and blinking eyes were set to the wind and had a curious look of detachment.

Sandro F. Piedrahita
Rival of the Sun

Karli Applestein
Ambuscade

Henry Lewis
The Kindness
The man was in his early fifties and needed a shave, the stubble just showing on his cheeks. His broad face and blinking eyes were set to the wind and had a curious look of detachment.

Sandro F. Piedrahita
Rival of the Sun
LONG Short Story

Karli Applestein
Ambuscade

Henry Lewis
The Kindness
The man was in his early fifties and needed a shave, the stubble just showing on his cheeks. His broad face and blinking eyes were set to the wind and had a curious look of detachment.

Sandro F. Piedrahita
Rival of the Sun
Art

Owen Brown
Despair Paintings
Novel Chapter
Novel Chapters
Tamara Tovey
Golden Aphrodite
Up she leaps, striding through the forest’s thickness, her pace accelerating as fast as her pounding heart, refusing memory with every panting breath.

Sandra Kolankiewicz
Aftermath
The Brother
David Kennedy
The Gilded Cage
Taken at the Flood
Joseph Allen Boone
Final Acts, A Novel
Part One: 1970Curtains Up!

Kelly Nusz
You’re Not My Next Thought
Chapter 2

Tamara Tovey
Golden Aphrodite
Up she leaps, striding through the forest’s thickness, her pace accelerating as fast as her pounding heart, refusing memory with every panting breath.

Sandra Kolankiewicz
Aftermath

David Kennedy
The Gilded Cage

Joseph Allen Boone
Final Acts, A Novel

Kelly Nusz
You’re Not My Next Thought
novel Chapter

Tamara Tovey
Golden Aphrodite
Up she leaps, striding through the forest’s thickness, her pace accelerating as fast as her pounding heart, refusing memory with every panting breath.

Sandra Kolankiewicz
Aftermath

David Kennedy
The Gilded Cage

Joseph Allen Boone
Final Acts, A Novel

Kelly Nusz
You’re Not My Next Thought
Essay

Peter J. Dellolio
Cinema, Painting, Literature

Mariah Geiger
Make Eden Great Again: Wellness, Purity and Trump

Peter J. Dellolio
Cinema, Painting, Literature

Mariah Geiger
Make Eden Great Again: Wellness, Purity and Trump

Peter J. Dellolio
Cinema, Painting, Literature

Mariah Geiger
Make Eden Great Again: Wellness, Purity and Trump
Creative Nonfiction

Benjamin Clabault
Interesting and Clever, Smiled At and Seen

Toni Palombi
Demolishing Barriers, Building Bridges

Linda S. Gunther
The Coughing Was Me

Benjamin Clabault
Interesting and Clever, Smiled At and Seen

Toni Palombi
Demolishing Barriers, Building Bridges

Linda S. Gunther
The Coughing Was Me

Benjamin Clabault
Interesting and Clever, Smiled At and Seen

Toni Palombi
Demolishing Barriers, Building Bridges

Linda S. Gunther
The Coughing Was Me
Nonfiction

Peter J. Dellolio
Cinema, Painting, Literature

Mariah Geiger
Make Eden Great Again: Wellness, Purity and Trump

Benjamin Clabault
Interesting and Clever, Smiled At and Seen

Toni Palombi
Demolishing Barriers, Building Bridges

Linda S. Gunther