ISSUE 16

 

STORIES

Afolabi Opanubi

The Devil Has

Caught You

Oonagh C Doherty

Venus Dancing

Simon King

The Perpetual Death

of the Composer

Laura Roberts

Sam Metro’s Weather

Ranjan Adiga

The Dining Table

Hannah Lackoff

Knees Together

William E Burleson

Clown of Death

Julie Zuckerman

Mixmaster

Dave Early

Blue Sky

 

INTERVIEW

Philip Zwerling

interviews Lee Blessing

Playwriting

(& texting quicker)

 

POEMS

Changming Yuan

Steeper Seesaws:

A Parallel Poem

Peter M Gordon

The Way It Should

Have Happened

ISSUE 15

 

STORIES

Leslie A Mitchell

Fabuloso

Wendi Lee

Inventing Helen

AD Martinez

Marina Hemingway

Jake Walters

Guitar

Lisa Gordon

Through Two People

Jack Steele

Good Works

Abbey Fenbert

Night Train

 

 

POEMS

Scott Laudati

From Here to LA

Tala Abu Rahmeh

Shrouding Ceremony

Claudine R Moreau

Keyed Red Dodge Neon

Zeina Hashem Beck

Peace Oil

Drew Lankford

Lollipops

Jennifer L Collins

Easier

 

ISSUE 14

 

STORIES

Joseph Guyer

When the Red King Awakes

Amy Purcell

Milk’s About to Sour

Elaine Olund

Like Sunshine

Alanah L Muir

Never Crossed Your Mind

Bob Sawatzki

Airport Fiction

William Falo

Wild Romania

William R Stoddart

Snakes in the Cane

Randall Brown

Haunt Me

Ian Denning

Tacoma

John Janda

Some Things Sacred

 

POEMS

Kanisha Lampkin

A Call for Daddy

David Barnes

Corporate Goldfish

 

IMAGES

Bob Sawatzki

On the beach

Martin Chipperfield

La Défense

ISSUE 13

 

STORIES

William Grigg

Gardening

Meg Tuite

Warrior Sister

Jess Corozza

How To Fail a Twelve-Step Program

Jeremy Glazer

Tsunami

Joseph Lampe

The Day the Server Lost His Soul

James Armstrong

Fair

Eugenia Mavrommati

A Murmur Louder Than a Cry

Louise Phillips

The Long Cut Bank

John Janda

Philtre

 

DOCUMENTARY

Ed Gutierrez

Sand Castles

 

POEMS

Alexander J Motyl

Balabanis Tailor

Marina Reid Weiss

Sontag

EJ Loera

Dear Virginia

 

INTERVIEW

Traci Kato-Kiriyama

interviewed by Andrew Mauzey

Tough Stuff

ISSUE 12

 

STORIES

Faig Mamed

At the Station

Paul Buchanan

Ten Lies

Lindsey Silken

What Comes After

Zdravka Evtimova

After His Greatest Love

Kimberly Smey

See to Believe

Christina Oi Ying Nip

Ocean’s Edge

Jackie Davis Martin

The View From Here

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

Parenthesis

Sarah May Hénon

A Clear Path

Solla Carrock

Leaving Yakima

Julie Zuckerman

White Oaks

 

POEMS

Helen Carey

In the Framework of an Empty House

David Stallings

In Passing

Peter Gordon

River Rocks

 

INTERVIEW

Natalie D’Auvergne interviews

Donna Grandin

Create or Die

 

IMAGES

Donna Grandin

The Lullaby

Just Peachy

The Would-be Twins

Solla Carrock

Walking in the Morning with Horses

ISSUE 11

 

STORIES

Sara Basrai

So Very Green

David Miller

The Airstrip

Ajay Vishwanathan

Droplets

Daniel Beer

Facelifts and Cigarettes

Bernie Hafeli

Down the Road a Piece

Trisha Bhattacharya

Kaya Evanescent

Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman

The Birthday

RE Greene

Bad Weather

Teresa Dovalpage

Honey & Cinnamon

Joe Greco

Catfish

Kat Hausler

Last Night in Paris

Chuck Belanger

Father’s Day

 

POEMS

Melanie Browne

For the Guy Dressed Like Fidel Castro

at San Diego International Airport

Robbie Martin

One Saturday Night at the

Spinning Wheel Diner (For Molly)

Evie McCarthy

Timing

Courtney Leigh Kirby

Fence Playing

ISSUE 10

 

STORIES

Alan Emmins

Five O’clock

Marcus A Lund

In  Search of Spare Change

William Falo

Russian Brides

Stephen Benzel

The Hopes and Fears

of Inanimate Objects

Matthew Ward

Get Back Jack

 

POEMS

Irène Mathieu

So Easily We Shatter

Kites

Barbra Nightingale

Picking Your Gene Pool

Kate Buckley

The Thing I Fear

Erin Whittinghill

Since Mitochondrial Eve

Hugh Fox

Let Me

Dave Morrison

Work Ethic

Elizabeth Meaney

Centrifuge

Alex Daniel

The Scientist

Sarah Frost

Cafe Neo

Jeffrey Allan Hanson

Beach Book Romance

 

IMAGES

Irène Mathieu

Decision

Kristen Stein

Autumn Fire

 

INTERVIEWS

Irène Mathieu

Breaking Imagery

Hugh Fox

Post-Buk

ISSUE 09

 

STORIES

Christopher David Rosales

Concrete Punch

Duncan MacCarthy Whitmire

South

Al Riske

Hold On

Bryan Russell

Our Weekly Generosity

Richard Krawiec

Control

Adele Annesi

Entertain Strangers

Kathleen S Allen

The Green Blanket

 

POEMS

Marco Yan

One Last Breath

Olivia Abernethy

I Wish I Could Wear This Grief

Nicole Lalime

What’s Left

Gale Acuff

Fidelity

Melanie Browne

His Head is Full of Paintings

Jay Rubin

Paradise Falls

Laurie Junkins

Naked

Michael Salcman

The Spidered Glass

Matt Schumacher

The Summer of Mysterious Instructions

Carol Matos

Amethyst

Michael Shorb

The Singing Wires

Carlton Lloyd Smith

Tijuana

 

INTERVIEW

Gretchen Clark interviews Al Riske

Sex and the Short Story

ISSUE 08

 

STORIES

Kyle Mangan

Je Suis un Artiste

David Barnes

Borrowing the house

for the weekend

Alexander Carpenter

Healing

Helen Silverstein

Speed of Light

Stella

Allison Ritto

Selky

Lindsey Danis

Little Moments I Regret

Tsipi Keller

Appliances

Chris Vaughan

Love Fwd’d On

David Lindrum

InnerSpace

Phil Redmon

The Li’l Disciple

Jan Donley

Mrs Tucci’s Tree

 

POEMS

Kirsten Jones Neff

Not Hard

Heather Derr-Smith

Thrown

Aimee Odens

Things to Do Before I Die: #27

AC Geller

In the Meantime

Jen Kindbom

Love Bugs

Cathryn Bales

Wedding

Alexandra Seidel

The Phoenix Is Dead

 

INTERVIEWS

David Barnes

interviewed by Trace Sheridan

Hemingway-esque

Allison Ritto

interviewed by Trace Sheridan

Fresh Voices

 

 

 

ISSUE 07

 

FICTION

Shveta Brahma

Mr Kulkarni

Salem Admassu

Slingshots

Thaddeus Rutkowski

Home Furnishings

Jessica Hollander

Watching You

Meagan Bernabé

Smooth

Leigh Byrne

About Dad

Robert Earle

At a Starbucks in Laguna

Laura Bogart

The God of Lightning Burned

His Heart Down

Randall Brown

Maya’s Cure

Thomas O’Dell

Last Chance

 

INTERVIEW

Carlyn Porter

Colours are moods

 

POEMS

Michael Montesano

A Weekend in July

Sherrill Alesiak

War Stories

Diane Judge

Faith (for Linwood Earl)

 

CARTOON

Matt Bissett-Johnson

Bad Art

ISSUE 06

 

STORIES

Jess Kroll

How I Paid for College

Francisca Stewart

Zeppelin on Melrose

Michael Copperman

Some Things I Know

Tom Mahony

Angry Loner

Alexander Prophet

I’m With Larry

Alison Christy

Naples Florida

Gayla Chaney

A Cyclist’s Psalm

Rosemary Harp

Her Flesh and Blood

 

INTERVIEWS

Al Balmer

Fire & Ashes

Jacqueline E Lawton

All About Love

Kelly Smith

Learning From Other Writers

Richard Stevenson

Poetic Justice

Sarah Ahmad

Picture Passion

 

POEMS

Lewis Dimmick

I Want to be Called Lew Lew

Tony Press

Reckoning

Kelly Davio

One in Four of Us is Marked

Dave Morrison

Quitter

Natalie Jeanne Champagne

The Medicine Man

Richard Stevenson

Shantzie’s Shoes

Phone Call

 

IMAGES

Al Balmer

Chinese New Year

On the Bus

Martin Chipperfield

Brisbane Botanic Gardens

Sarah Ahmad

Sweep

ISSUE 05

 

STORIES

Jackie Corley

Catfish Boys

James Meredith

Sailing By

Ebun A Adewumi

Piano Lessons

Michael Peck

Mr Willow’s Dilemma

Randall Brown

Kat

Mel Fawcett

Another Game

Digby Beaumont

The Lightness of Feet

Michael Borshuk

The Easter Visit

Melody Feldman

Veins

Valerie Z Lewis

The Last Stall on the Left

Sam Palcko

I Think I’ll Call You Mister

Katya M Reno

The Koreans Should Be Grateful

Todd E Savelle

In the Market

 

INTERVIEWS

Willy Conley

Visual Obsession

Jackie Corley

Wild Kin

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming

Inspiration x 2

LeopoldMcGinnis

The Rebellion That’s Red Fez

 

POEMS

Curt Eriksen

The Cultivation of Love

Luke Boyd

The Trucker

Janet Thorning

Simply Incredible

Leopold McGinnis

Going About Their Lives

 

IMAGES

Willy Conley

Night Dreaming

Mostafa Moftah

Girl from Delhi

Jesse Kellman

Love Ain’t All Black and White

ISSUE 04

 

STORIES

Josh Gross

A Love of History

David B Essinger

Walking Sophie

William Falo

Touch the Sky

Mel Fawcett

Blue Note

Karen Bremer Masuda

The Fringes

Stefan Schumacher

The Golden Jacket

Fred Skolnik

The Rooming House

 

INTERVIEW

Shawn A Huckins

Word Pix

 

POEMS

Traci Isadora Nelson

Bonanza

Dave Morrison

Sad Ancestors

Tammy Ho Lai-ming

You Are My 27th Letter

Diana Der-Hovanessian

The Last Transfixing Love

Jeremy Magnan

Candyman

LeeAnn Pickrell

An Email From an Old Boyfriend

John Grey

On Your First Night in a Hotel with a Man

Meg Pokrass

Thirst at Night

Trace Sheridan

Flat Tire

ISSUE 03

 

STORIES

Geoff Kirsch

The Danger You Know

William Falo

Tears Before They Fall

SE Diamond

Yawn Hates Me

Ashley Cowger

Of Quicksand Mats

and Peaceful Meditation

Steve Hicks

On Hold in Zihua

Windy Lynn Harris

Occupation

Michael Ernest Sweet

The Tea Party

Kathleen J Stowe

Chop Suey

 

INTERVIEWS

Mostafa Moftah

Extreme Images

Michael Sweet

Writing Stars

 

POEMS

Arlene Ang

Time  with Frieda

Jason Huskey

One-Year Anniversary

Shana Kraynak

myspace Jesus

Sarah E Azizi

Camouflage

Matt Mullins

Moving

CP Stewart

Waters

Dave Morrison

Unlikely Sonnet

Ashliegh Gehl

Yesterday

ISSUE 02

 

STORIES

Teddy Totimeh

The Ride

Ruth Knipe

Stop Light

Rosemary Mosco

55x2

Jeff Esterholm

Warming House

Contest Winners: Flashers!!

Robert Louis Bartlett

Teach Me How to Dance to the Blues by

Kim Kolarich

Memory Cash

Dorothee Lang

Anyways

Frank Haberle

Fogcutter

Matthew Ward

Going Back to You

Lee Kern

Cups of Coffee

John Arthur Pegg

Teleporting Thoughts

Aaron Burch

Fortunes

Martin Chipperfield

Wrong Way

Trace Sheridan

Call Notes

Robert K Omura

The Memory of a Spider on the Wall

Arash Farzaneh

Opium Clouds

JA Tyler

Into the Margins

Tom Gant

  The Reality of Erotica

Tim Kenny

This Waltz

Michael P Ferrari

Sin Insurance

Ken Rodgers

Routine

Nancy Gauquier

The Number 15 Bus

Ashley Callender

Raptors and Rage

 

POEMS

Rod Stewart

Let Not My Wing

Do Not Ask

Leslie Joseph

The Flight Back

Mitra

Chant Undone

Joseph Goosey

 Some People

Matthew Abuelo

Pop

Sarah Tuttle

Invulnerable Hearts

Corey Mesler

P F Sloan and the Morning of Rue

Craig Wesley

A Few Moments of Real Clarity

Cathy Delaleu

Knowledge

Laura LeHew

Regret is a Woman’s Field

Dave Morrison

Black Crow

 

INTERVIEWS

Rosemary Mosco

of 55 Words

by Trace Sheridan

Launch Pad

Dorothee Lang

of BluePrintReview

by Trace Sheridan

A Journey into Words

Matthew Ward by

Martin Chipperfield

Skive Writing

Aaron Burch of Hobart

by Trace Sheridan

Lit Mag That’s Restaurant Quality

 Trace Sheridan and

Martin Chipperfield

by Sean Merrigan

Pop Lit

Corey Mesler

by Martin Chipperfield

Mesler’s Mix

JA Tyler by Trace Sheridan

Mud Luscious

Tim Kenny of Hecale

by Trace Sheridan

Subterranean Hang-out

 

COMIC

Rosemary Mosco

Evolution Sucks

 

IMAGES

Rod Stewart

Steppin’ Out

Street Scene

Al Balmer

Doorway at Lanzarote

ISSUE 01

 

STORIES

Alice Shin

Good Girls

Stefan Schumacher

One More Thing

Susan Breeden

Failing Sylvie

Rosalia Sanfilippo

Invisible

David Miller

Martin and Andrea

David Miller

Why Do You Always

Look in the Mirror?

Patrick Cole

Great-Great-Great

Deanna Roy

The NuvaRing

John Janda

Prophecy

Jake Epstine

Lonely Biceps

Michael Overa

Backwards is Memory

Elizabeth Castoria

Commitment

Greg Gerke

Iraq, Yes Iraq

RaChelle Hafen

Eclipse

 

POEMS

Michael Peck

To a Painter

Dave Morrison

My Love

James Gormley

Nothing of Value in This Car

James Meredith

Knocking on

Kelly Desilet

Second Thoughts

Mealee Thomas

Play...Pause...Rewind

Colin Dardis

Forget the Smoke

Lori Kozlowski

One Block Off the Strip

Judy Kaber

Rehearsing in the Dark

Corey Evans

Sleepy Transience

Howard McKenzie-Murray

What We’ve Created Here

Cher’ley Grogg

Burdens

JM Pengelly

Reflections

Michael Lee Johnson

Lost Spouse

 

DOCUMENTARY

Alan Emmins

Man & Trolley

 

INTERVIEWS

Chris Niesmertelny

The Emotion of Light

Dave Morrison

After the Music

Susan Breeden

Choice and Circumstance

Rosalia Sanfilippo

Writing for Kicks

David Miller

Meeting Place

Alan Emmins

Man & Golf Buggy

Deanna Roy

Murderous Gig

Sharon Harriott

Read Rage

 

IMAGES

Chris Niesmertelny

Underwater

John Wayne McClung, Jr

Morning Fog

Fabio Sassi

Country Road near Bologna

Deanna Roy

Austin, Texas