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3rd October 2019

More Insomnial Moments

Quarter past midnight. The last remnant of relaxing chamomile leaves a tangy, bitter aftertaste. “Zigzagging to the light” plays across my mind as I put down an extended meditation on mentorship in Robert McDowell’s...

Favourites / Short Story

BY Will Hemlepp

2nd October 2019

Behind Eyelids – Part One

Short Story The shock traveled up his arm and twinged into his neck muscles. Rippling like a predator cat, he slowly hefted the iron bar from the sticky mess between his feet. Flakes...

Favourites / Short Story

BY Roach Adams

2nd October 2019

Individual Of Concern

Short Story The tiny padded cell was devoid of any furniture except an elongated mirror that consumed one of the walls and a bright lime green button beside the door. In the centre of...

Poem

BY A. M. Laine

2nd October 2019

Waiting

Waiting As if you would Come ’round for a chat I know that you could But don’t expect it at that So sit here I will To think of the weather The movement of...

Poem

BY Anna Elise

2nd October 2019

Choices

Poem Choices left and right Ultimately it’s up to you It’s always up to you You wonder if you could go back If you don’t like the road you choose Would you really have...

Short Story

BY Tyler Clifton

2nd October 2019

Aurora

Short Story I saw you at the carnival. You didn’t notice me. I just lost at ring toss. I knew it was rigged but I didn’t want to be the guy who ruins...

Haibun / Poem

BY Frank J. Tassone

26th September 2019

Impromptu Pilgrimage: Marion Shrine

The Stations of the Cross lead us to Lady Park. There, refurbished statues, on new pedestals that depict the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary, line a path. At the end of...

Short Story

BY Sandy Dodge

25th September 2019

Dive

Now the room was spinning. Now he was in control. He had come to live for that feeling. And even if he couldn’t at first remember which drugs he had loaded up on, he...