Issue 96: 17 October 2019

Hope and Furies

By Shana Ross   When vengeance descends in a collective noun with feathers: do we expect a murmuration or a murder?   Shana Ross is a writer, mother, muse, sometime wallflower, middle-aged ambivert with a BA and MBA from Yale. Since resuming her writing career in 2018, she has accumulated over 20 publication credits. She […]

A Moment of Silence

By Rebecca Lee   The bus station smells like stale cigarettes and something milky mixed with a sour aftertaste. Babies and homeless people. They are completely opposite from each another. One has lived too much and the other, not enough. Together, they sit in the row of blue plastic seats in front of and behind […]

Crime Scene

By Mark Blickley and Nancy A. Kiel     Mark Blickley is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center. His latest book is the text-based art collaboration with fine arts photographer Amy Bassin, Dream Streams. Nancy A. Kiel lives in Sydney, Australia, where she’s an award-winning musician, songwriter, writer, and founding member […]

For Four Years, At Least

By Mark J. Mitchell For Lyle Grosjean and those of us who walk None shall kill when all are completed.          —Kenneth Patchen Our boots— brown, heavy and clunky as gray cinderblocks— can rest at the backs of our cluttered closets unless bright wild flower hills call us by name. The green […]