The ghosts had always been loud. Like rats or squirrels, they scampered in and out of our homes, tampering…
New Fiction: “Karen” by Eleanor Levine
She speaks thirty seconds, a mere thirty seconds, after I ignore her for five years, and then I’m back.…
Chelsea Biondolillo’s essay collection THE SKINNED BIRD, reviewed by Christen Kauffman
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Shane Jesse Christmass on DEATH VALLEY SUPERSTARS, Duke Haney’s occasionally fatal essay collection
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Collaborative Poetry: “In a Late Stage” by Tony Mancus & CL Bledsoe
In a Late Stage It’s not a question of outrunning the bear; it’s a question of perfectly seasoning the salmon.…
AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING HERE, short stories by Jacob M. Appel, reviewed by Patrick Parks
Amazing Things Are Happening Here, by Jacob M. Appel. Black Lawrence Press, April 2019. 152 pages. $17.95, paper. In her…
Three Hypnophobia Poems by Ellie White
Hypnophobia1 #17 In the basement of the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis, there is a carousel. Or at least, there…
“Up next,” a visual story hybrid by N.D. Brown
_____________________________________ 1. The following are real YouTube videos generated from the search, “Protect My Family.” 2. Times Watched: 3 3.…
Three Disaster Movies from The Future: Poems by Lucas Pingel
Disaster Movie At the edge of the locust storm our toes Make a quiet music a prayer for broken…
Ryan Mills: “Poem”
Then his pancakes come and I’m like Please leave the flowers— and really, after his question (“have you ripped a…
The Future: “Anything Can Be a Weapon,” a collaborative short story by Dana Diehl & Melissa Goodrich (from THE CLASSROOM)
When the zombies overtook the Lakeshore School District, the Dads were the first to go. They were crossword Dads.…
The Future: Four Illustrations by Selene dePackh
Illuminated Passages 11-a Illuminated Passages 25 PTSD 2nd Restatement PTSD 3rd Restatement *** Selene dePackh…
