Issue 102: 23 January 2020

Subliminal and Unanimous Dreams of the Future

By Kimberly Kaufman   In the shadowy, damp cities of our eon no Martian parent will guilt their children into eating their slimy green protein crumbles with stories of the starving Children of Earth As the dust storms rage above no Martian child will flick internal game consoles, the giant screens their only chance to […]

It Looks Like Dancing

By Otis Fuqua   The moon is not out. Deborah is not in bed. A stranger’s silhouette is not rolling toward her like a panther. “Mish Deborah?” a child’s voice asks—Ricardo, at the front of the classroom. The esses catch on his braces. There is no face like a saber-tooth tiger. An eely stripe of […]

Wealth of Nations

By Gemma Cooper-Novack   Jeff Bezos wrote a capitalist haiku and we all live in it   Gemma Cooper-Novack’s debut poetry collection We Might As Well Be Underwater, a finalist for the Central New York Book Award, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2017. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in more than twenty journals, […]

what’s happening with the boys

By Lou Ella Hickman   what’s happening with the boys our prayers & thoughts bullied? bang, bang you’re dead a moment of silence easy access? what’s happening with the boys new laws won’t help video games? bang, bang you’re dead our prayers & thoughts absent fathers? what’s happening with the boys a moment of silence […]