Issue 14 Table of Contents
This is a collection for those who hear melodies in all things, even in the buzzing of a swarm of flies. It’s a collection for synaesthetes, musicians, and music-lovers of … Continue reading
Issue 13 Table of Contents
Issue 13 is a collection about “Births,” but not just the birth of babies. Creation and procreation can give us beautiful and terrible things, or things that carry the balance of … Continue reading
A Boy and His Cat-Bean, by Kyle E. Miller
Ages after all the others had fallen off their rails, one last M.O.T.H.E.R. sonic sprayer tended the bean fields spread across the fertile crescent of flatlands called the Green Moon. … Continue reading
Last Stand at Cougar Annie’s, by Scott R Jones
Pure Helen has a catchphrase she uses whenever she takes Andy down. She calls it a joke, but it isn’t, because jokes are supposed to have a funny bit at … Continue reading
The Fourth, by Naomi Manao
The first time Sorrow placed her newborn infant in the pea-green boat and gently pushed it out to sea, the boat did not come back for many days. When … Continue reading
Marta Ranunculus Wolf Calf, by Gillian Barlow Graham
In a small town by the sea, there lived a woman named Ranunculus and her three children. Ranunculus worked as a butcher, but she refused to sell veal because her … Continue reading
Jonathan’s Heaven Has Many Cats, by Rachael K. Jones
These are the things I know about Jonathan: he is a white man. Scotch-Irish on his father’s side, and Danish on his mother’s. He is American, born and raised in … Continue reading
Issue 13 Foreword
Births commonly and symbolically herald beginnings, but they can also herald endings. Sometimes it takes a deep dig into fiction to communicate this dichotomy, and I appreciate how the authors … Continue reading →