southern gothic: Poem by RC deWinter
your mother’s gardenias still bloom / on the blue porch with the faded bench
Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore: Story by Peter J. Stavros
It’s that thing that wakes you at three in the morning, with a gasp and a startle.
Magdalena: Poem by Mark Fitzpatrick
spike-heels scuffed from the journey through night, / sway down the bitterness of this street
The Grief Eater: Story by Deirdre Fagan
I read it in the paper, the news about the 87-year-old man who went to bed with a bump on his head and never awoke again.
Wedding Bells: Story by M. Nazar Syed
I looked down and saw my hands clenched tighter than they’d ever clenched before. A bead of sweat formed on my temple.
Three Poems by David Lohrey
Beside the red barn / at an intersection / between today and tomorrow, / a man from Alabama plays the banjo on his knee
When We Are Alive
by Kaori Fujimoto
You rush from your home in the Tokyo area, and, as the train station comes into view, you see your fellow commuters bottlenecked into the street.
Wounds
by Juleus Ghunta
The night she tried to beat me, I slept on the veranda / of the shop in the square.
Sequoia Sempervirens
by Amye Archer
There are nights when I look at you, feel for you in the dark, and the falling into one another, the estuary we create, is still so easy.
Three Poems by Michelle Brooks
Bleak, that’s a given. No sun for / days. The spring doesn’t arrive / soon enough.
A Modern How-To for the Boudoir
by Angela Kubinec
While browsing my local used book store, I came across a title I had not seen in decades. It was How to Make Love to a Man.
The King of Rock ‘n Soul
by Alan Swyer
Dubbed by Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records The greatest singer—and hustler—in the world, Solomon Burke had a story second to none.
Fads and Crazes, Trends and Rages: Why we’re always looking for the next best thing
by Dr. Donna Roberts
From hula-hoops to cabbage patch dolls to fidget spinners. From goldfish swallowing to streaking to twerking.
Two Poems by Gail Hosking
It’s warm. Always / warm with some war starting up, more / children to raise.
Horoscopes for Writers — September 2017
Word counts, book sales, even romance: the only astrological guide a writer needs.
Dancing Bautas for the Ashes’ Day
by Russell Hemmell
Ca’ Dario stands in front of us, sombre, sleek and precious, often avoided and always dreaded.
Inner Monologue as I prepare to Write My Sexual Bildungsroman
by Christie Tate
Regret not a single time you ran full-speed into situations that violated every standard of ethics, morality, hygiene, civility, and OSHA.
Instructions For Travel in Times of Doubt
by Suzi Banks Baum
Take a deeper breath, / the kind that quiets your belly / when you stand on the cliff’s edge of a new now.
Bryan with a Y
by Samuel Cole
I touch his shoulder, wishing to touch everything else. Now. Here. Out in the open.
Two Poems by Nancy Devine
Dangerous / to let the sharks of worry swim away / after dismissing them into the open ocean
Rolling News
by Peter Cowlam
Minions in a free press, let loose with a vision, wash tides of stucco from their blades as work ends on a coastal tower.
Naturally about Kamagra knew, several times I bought Kamagra in a drugstore, but on a pocket noticeably beats and became less and less likely to take, then I started looking for analogs and substitutes, not HERBAL, friend was eating half a year and zero effect.
