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Recently Published
- Caught by Chris Bullard
  Old lungs puffing like gills, I beg to be thrown back to boyhood’s clear waters.
- Night Elf Bildungsroman by S.C. Svendsgaard
  I played a male Night Elf druid named Siladan Wintersinger.
- The Mother-in-Law by Angela Sue Winsor
  They wanted to get married. Something very small. They imagined what they were planning was modern and subversive and uniquely romantic, as if couples haven’t been rushing to courthouses every day for decades and decades.
- Second Winter Solstice During an Epidemic by Marianne Worthington
  When my dog and I look at the sky we see haloes and fuzz, our sight clouded by a sameness.
- Robert Fleming Warps Reality by Adam Camiolo
  To our benefit, it is an imperfect mirror, covered in scratches and slightly shattered.

Contest Winners

Poetry

Patron Saints of Blue Jays by Sarah Karowski

August 15, 2021

My love & I won’t stop dancing. we don’t concern ourselves with rhythm

Fiction

He Was Never What You Would Call A Tall Man by Charlotte Turnbull

August 15, 2021

I measure him, balancing the ruler smoothly upon his godless tonsure.

Fiction

Lobster Trap by Aliza Pelto

April 15, 2021

The Lobster Trap is a fisherman’s bar, a real hole in the wall.

Poetry

The Seam Ripper Holds with Those Who Favor Fire by Cady Favazzo

April 15, 2021

the seam ripper is routinely disappointed / to be identified as part of a kit.

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