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    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 4 >
      • TO THOSE FOUND DEAD IN CHIMNEYS by R.W. Plym
      • WHAT TO EXPECT OF LIFE by Steven G. Kellman
      • IF IT WERE DRAWN by Jessica Reed
      • BLOOD IN THE ORCHIDS by Amanda Kotch
      • CORNELIUS RADHOPPER by Peter Arscott
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 3 >
      • ANIMAL INHERITANCE by akhir ali
      • THAT DUDE DERRIDA by Daniel Klawitter
      • FLAT-EARTH FRED by Phil Gallos
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SEMICOLON by Orana Loren
      • MY BALDERDASHERY by Eric Paul Shaffer
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 2 >
      • MIRROR by Joshua Kepfer
      • CUE FALLING PIANO by D.C. Weaver
      • ANTON AND THE ECHO by Cristina Otero
      • THAT WHICH WE TRULY DON'T KNOW by JOACHIM GLAGE
      • CONGRATULATIONS by Alan Sincic
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 1 >
      • NEVER, NEVER LAND, MY SHIP by Mark Pearce
      • THE SMILE OF MONA LISA by Fatima Ijaz
      • OUROBOROS by Esme Sammons
      • THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA by Margaret D. Stetz
      • SNICKER-SNACK by Bruce Meyer
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 4 >
      • THE OWLET AND THE TURTLE by Greg Sendi
      • BRACTS and other poems by Nathaniel Calhoun
      • ANSWERS TO NON-EXISTENT QUESTIONS and other poems by Kevin Griffith
      • NEVERENDING KNOT by Jodie Dalgleish
      • LEARNING TO WALK by Jodie Dalgleish
      • OVERSOUL by P.S. Lutz
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 3 >
      • MAP OF MEMORY by Jesse Schotter
      • BISMILLAH by Abby Minor
      • MICROMORTS by Veronica Tang
      • LOVE LETTER TO LANGUAGE: AN ABECEDARIAN by Saramanda Swigart
      • IF YOU WERE ALL WATER by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 2 >
      • CONTRA FORMALISME by Leland Seese
      • DRUNKEN MAN ON A BICYCLE by Dan Butterworth
      • WOLF TICKETS THROUGH THE FERAL WINTER by Kirk Marshall
      • SYLVANUS, BARD by Marc Lerner
      • THE LOOKING GLASS OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM by Frank Meola
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 1 >
      • INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie
      • A SERIES OF PUNCTUATION by Hajar Hussaini
      • ROT AND GLORIANA by Laurel Miram
      • BLUES ON RED by Elie Doubleday
      • MY FICTION: REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF WORK by Richard Kostelanetz
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 4 >
      • ENDNOTES FOR AN ALLOCUTION by Peter Freund
      • UKEMI (and other poems) by Nicole Vento
      • MEMORANDUM ON DESIRE by Laylage Courie
      • THE HOLYWOOD DEUTERONOMY by Jim Shankman
      • AT THE MAD HATTER-MARCH HARE ART GALLERY (and other poems) by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 3 >
      • THE MACHINE, STOLEN FIRE, and PERFORMANCE by Vivek Narayan
      • FIRST FRUITS by Stephen Massimilla
      • ONCE UPON A TOMORROW-TIME by Christopher Routheut
      • YIELD LIGHT OF WAY by Ken Goodman
      • SEVEN TALES by Sara Streett
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 2 >
      • THE PUNCH-CARD CIPHERS by DF Short
      • SHE WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TOAST by Kelli Russell Agodon
      • HABLU L-WARIDI by Jesse Hilson
      • THE KEY TO DREAMS by Sean S. Bentley
      • SOFA, SO GOOD, SORT OF by Remy Ngamije
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 1 >
      • STAMPING THE DEAD by Habib Mohana
      • LEGS by A. Joachim Glage
      • I THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX by Heikki Huotari
      • LUŽÁNKY by V.B. Borjen
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3 >
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 4 >
        • TALES UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN by Devon Ortega
        • WAKE UP by JayJay Conrad
        • AMONG THE MEN IS APRIL by Logo Wei
        • SWEET by Melinda Giordano
        • BLACK ROSES by Osamase Ekhator
        • MEET ME TONIGHT ON METAPHOR STREET by Vivek Narayan
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 3 >
        • MENAGE A TROIS, WITH HORSE by Don Dussault
        • THE BLACK by Ben Colandrea
        • BLUE SKY LANGUAGE by Christien Gholson
        • UN DETECTIVE VIEJO by Franco Strong
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 2 >
        • THE CLEANSING by Linda Dennard
        • SHUFFLE by Debbie Fox
        • DID YOU FALL OR RISE FROM THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING? by M. Ann Reed
        • THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PORNQUEEN by Omar Sabbagh
        • KIGALI MEMORIAL by Carlos Andres Gomez
        • PANTOUM OF THE MEAT by Ouita Rogers
      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 1 >
        • HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY by Joanne B. Mulcahy
        • PROTOCOL NINE-NINE-NINE-NINE by Kenneth Hanes
        • LESS' MORE by TWIXT
        • POINTLESS MR. PROBST by Beatriz Seelaender
    • ARCHIVES: VOLUME 2 >
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 4 >
        • SYLVAN PASSAGES by Dan Wood
        • SISTER ALONE by Janet M Powers
        • CENTURY 2.1 by Alan Flurry
        • CLAIMED BY THE SEA by Sam Reese
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 3 >
        • CROSSHATCHING by M.K. Rainey
        • LULLABY by Barbara Daddino
        • HOUSEMOUTH (and other poems) by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller
        • THE RESIDUE IN PUBLIC TEA AND COFFEE CUPS by V.B. Borjen
        • SYZYGY (and other poems) by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 2 >
        • DRAGONFLIES: A DISCOURSE ON ANXIETY by Lara Lillibridge
        • AND RICHARD BURBAGE ALSO HAD A SISTER by Freya Shipley
        • THE WATCHERS by M.K. Rainey
        • JAZZ INTERACTION WITH SYMBOLS by Sarah T.
        • SPIDER (and other poems) by Natalie Crick
      • AZURE Volume 2, Issue 1 >
        • ECHOES by Daniel Freeman
        • MAPS by Susan Brennan
        • EDGAR'S FATHER'S MAGIC WORDS by JWM Morgan
        • LOCKJAW: IN TWO ACTS by James Blevins
        • WHAT THE LIVING DO by Susan Wadds
    • Archives: Volume 1 >
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 10 >
        • SUSURROS DE RECURRENCIA by Franco Strong
        • THE OLD MAN by Sarah T.
        • PERMUTATIONS by Laura Cesarco Eglin
        • WORLD PEACE 3 by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 9 >
        • LITTLE GHOST by Danny Judge
        • THE LAST ALLUSIONIST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • CHURCH by Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 8 >
        • DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS by Nancy Flynn
        • WHAT I COULDN'T SAY by Erika Ranee & Diana McClure
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 7 >
        • BRASS TYRANT AND THE AMERICAN THIRST by Kirk Marshall
        • LADY KILLER by Monika Viola
        • THE RIBBONS by Ferguson Williams
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 6 >
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT 2 - Part 1) by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • NEW AGE UNCAGED by Frank Light
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 5 >
        • THE TRIALS OF TOBIT by Joseph Lisowski
        • LIKE MANY GIANT FOOTPRINTS (and other poems) by William Doreski
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT I) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 4 >
        • WARDENCLIFF by Barbara Daddino
        • BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY by Reg Darling
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (LIBRETTO) by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 3 >
        • LAWTON, OKLAHOMA by Mark Lawley
        • TWEETY BIRD'S GRACE by Diana McClure
        • CONTAGION AND THE DINNER GUEST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • ON POETRY AND PROSE by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 2 >
        • TWO MICE IN A BLACK BOX & THE DECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE by Sakina B. Fakhri
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 1 >
        • CHARACTER SKETCHES by Diana McClure
        • SEASONS ON A GRAVESTONE by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • COCKTAIL PARTY by Diana McClure
        • DESUETUDE by Sakina B. Fakhri
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AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought

Volume 6, Issue 4

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POETRY  
TO THOSE FOUND DEAD IN CHIMNEYS & QUATRAINS - R.W. Plym

CREATIVE NON-FICTION
WHAT TO EXPECT OF LIFE - Steven G. Kellman

CREATIVE NON-FICTION
IF IT WERE DRAWN - Jessica Reed

ESSAY
BLOOD IN THE ORCHIDS - Amanda Kotch

FICTION
CORNELIUS RADHOPPER - Peter Arscott
"We feel that we are being compelled to accept an order and to arrange the elements of the novel...at the novelist's bidding. In looking back at the few novels that we have glanced at here we can see how astonishingly we lend ourselves to first one vision and then to another which is its opposite. We obliterate a whole universe at the command of Defoe; we see every blade of grass and snail shell at the command of Proust. From the first page we feel our minds trained upon a point which becomes more and more perceptible as the book proceeds and the writer brings his conception out of darkness. At last the whole is exposed to view...something girding it about like the firm road of Defoe's storytelling; or we see it shaped and symmetrical with dome and column complete, like Pride and Prejudice and Emma... As the pages are turned, something is built up which is not the story itself."

- Virginia Woolf, "Phases of Fiction"

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Volume 6, Issue 3

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FICTION: Animal Inheritance by akhir ali
POETRY: My Balderdashery by Eric Paul Shaffer
FICTION: Flat-Earth Fred by Phil Gallos
POETRY: That Dude Derrida by Daniel Klawitter
FICTION: The Mystery of the Missing Semicolon;
or, Case-Notes from Harley Street: A Story
by Orana Loren

Volume 6, Issue 2

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FICTION: "That which we truly don't know, we don't know that we don't know" by Glenn Trollip (A Review of The Idea that Never Was, by Hiram Junker) by Joachim Glage
POETRY: Mirror by Joshua Kepfer
POETRY: Anton & the Echo (after Francisco de Añón) - Cristina Otero
FICTION: Congratulations by Alan Sincic
FICTION: Cue Falling Piano by D. C. Weaver

Volume 6, Issue 1

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​POETRY: Never, Never Land, My Ship by Mark Pearce
POETRY: Ouroboros by Esme Sammons
POETRY: "The Depths of the Sea" (1887) by Edward Burne-Jones by Margaret D. Stetz
FICTION: Snicker-Snack by Bruce Meyer​
FICTION: The Smile of Mona Lisa by Fatima Ijaz

Volume 5, Issue 4

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POETRY: The Owlet and the Turtle by Greg Sendi
POETRY: bracts (and other poems) by Nathaniel Calhoun
POETRY: Answers to Non-Existent Questions (and other poems) by Kevin Griffith
POETRY: Neverending Knot by Jodie Dalgleish
NOVELLA [Contest Winner]: Oversoul: The Poet Policeman of Lambshire by P.S. Lutz
POETRY [Contest Winner]: Learning to Walk by Jodie Dalgleish

Volume 5, Issue 3

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POETRY: Bismillah (from Three Disintegrated Sonnets for Abbas Husain, M.D.) by Abby Minor
FICTION [Contest Winner]: Micromorts by Veronica Tang
POETRY: Love Letter to Language: An Abecedarian by Saramanda Swigart
PROSE POETRY: If you were all water (and you mostly are) by M. Ann Reed
FICTION (NOVEL EXCERPT): Map of Memory by Jesse Schotter

Volume 5, Issue 2

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FICTION [Contest Winner]: The Looking Glass of Arthur Gordon Pym by Frank Meola
POETRY: drunken man on a bicycle  by Dan Butterworth
NOVEL EXCERPT [Contest Winner]: Wolf Tickets Through the Feral Winter (excerpt from Feverglades) by Kirk Marshall
POETRY: contra Formalisme & other poems  by Leland Seese
ESSAY: ​Sylvanus, Bard by Marc Lerner

Volume 5, Issue 1

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STAGEPLAY: Intimate Things by Laylage Courie
PROSE POETRY: A Distinctive Duplication & the united nation of poetry rejects the full stop from 'A Series of Punctuation'  by Hajar Hussaini
NON-FICTION: Rot and Gloriana by Laurel Miram
POETRY: Blues on Red  by Elie Doubleday
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LITERARY EXPERIMENTS: ​My Fiction: Remembering Fifty Years of Work by Richard Kostelanetz


Volume 4, Issue 4 (2019)

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ENDNOTES: Endnotes for an Allocution by Peter Freund
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: The Holywood Deuteronomy by Jim Shankman
POETRY: At the Mad Hatter-March art gallery (and other poems) by M. Ann Reed
MEMORANDUM: Memorandum on Desire by Laylage Courie
POETRY (Contest Winner): ukemi (and other poems) by Nicole Vento

Volume 4, Issue 3 (2019)

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A FABLE, A DECLAMATION, and A PARABLE: The Machine, Stolen Fire, & Performance by Vivek V. Narayan
POETRY: First Fruits (and other poems) by Stephen Massimilla
ALLITERATIVE PROSE POEMS: Once Upon a Tomorrow-Time (and other works) by Christopher Pieterszoon Routheut
POETRY: Yield Light of Way by yours truly, the happy recluse, a.k.a Ken Goodman
​POETRY: Seven Tales by Sara Streett

Volume 4, Issue 2 (2019)

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SHORT FICTION: The Punch-Card Ciphers by DF Short
​POETRY: She Was the First to Give a Toast, and the Last to Say Goodnight by Kelli Russell Agodon
​POETRY: Hablu L-Waridi (The Jugular Vein) by Jesse Hilson
​SHORT FICTION: Sofa, So Good, Sort of (or John Muafangejo) by Remi Ngamije
POETRY: The Key to Dreams by Sean S. Bentley

Volume 4, Issue 1 (2019)

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MULTI-FORM PROSE: I Think Outside the Box (and other pieces) by Heikki Huotari
SHORT FICTION: Stamping the Dead by Habib Mohana
PROSE POETRY: Legs & A Footnote on the Baleful Effects of Happiness  A. Joachim Glage
SHORT FICTION: Lužánky by V.B. Borjen



Volume 3, Issue 4 (2018)

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POETRY: Tales Unsuitable for Children by Devon Ortega
POETRY: Wake Up (and other poems) by JayJay Conrad
POETRY: Among the Men is April by Logo Wei
POETRY (CONTEST WINNER): Black Roses by Osamase Ekhator 
POETRY: Meet Me Tonight on Metaphor Street by Vivek V. Narayan
POETRY: Sweet and Dusk by Melinda Giordano

Volume 3, Issue 3 (2018)

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NOVELLA: Menage A Trois, With Horse by Don Dussault
PROSE POETRY: Blue Sky Language by Christien Gholson
POETRY: Un Detective Viejo by Franco Strong
PHILOSOPHICAL RUMINATION: The Black by Ben Colandrea

Volume 3, Issue 2 (2018)

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POETRY: Pantoum of the Meat by Ouita Rogers
SHORT FICTION: The Cleansing by Linda Dennard
POETRY: Shuffle by Debbie Fox
POETRY (CONTEST WINNER): Did you fall or rise from the cloud of unknowing? by M. Ann Reed
NOVELLA EXCERPT: The Philosopher and the Pornqueen by Omar Sabbagh
POETRY (CONTEST WINNER): Kigali Memorial by Carlos Andrés Gómez

Volume 3, Issue 1 (2018)

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SHORT FICTION (a journey in footnotes): Pointless Mr. Probst by Beatriz Seelaender
POETRY: Less' More by Twixt
ESSAY: How to Write a Biography by Joanne B. Mulcahy
SHORT FICTION: Protocol Nine-Nine-Nine-Nine​ by Kenneth Hanes


Volume 2, Issue 4 (2017)

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SHORT FICTION (CONTEST WINNER): Claimed by the Sea by Sam Reese
PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY/APHORISMS: Sylvan Passages by Dan Wood
POETRY: Sister Alone by Janet M. Powers
SHORT FICTION: Century 2.1 by Alan Flurry

Volume 2, Issue 3 (2017)

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SHORT FICTION (CONTEST WINNER): Crosshatching by M.K. Rainey
SHORT FICTION: Lullaby by Barbara Daddino
PROSE POETRY: Housemouth (and other poems) by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller
SHORT FICTION: The Residue in Public Tea and Coffee Cups by V.B. Borjen
POETRY: Syzygy (and other poems) by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood

Volume 2, Issue 2 (2017)

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ESSAY: And Richard Burbage Had a Sister by Freya Shipley
SHORT FICTION: The Watchers by M.K. Rainey
POETRY: Jazz Interaction With Symbols  by Sarah T.
POETIC ESSAY: Dragonflies: A Discourse on Anxiety by Lara Lillibridge
POETRY: Spider (and other poems) by Natalie Crick

Volume 2, Issue 1 (2017)

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SHORT STORY: Echoes by Daniel Freeman
POETRY: Maps, guided thought tape #30, & guided thought tape #5,723 by Susan Brennan
SHORT STORY: Edgar's Father's Magic Words by JWM Morgan
POETRY: Lockjaw: In Two Acts, Pyramids of Complex Thought, & A Comet's Return by James Blevins
NOVEL EXCERPT (CONTEST WINNER): What the Living Do (Chapters 1 & 2) by Susan E. Wadds


Volume 1, Issue 10 (2016)

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NOVELLA: Susurros de Recurrencia by Franco Strong
NOVEL EXCERPT: The Old Man from Deep Rooted Cane by Sarah T.
POETRY: Permutations, With Thyme, & Listening by Laura Cesarco Eglin
POETRY: World Peace 3 & Visitation ​by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca

Volume 1, Issue 9 (2016)

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SHORT STORY: Little Ghost by Danny Judge
SHORT STORY: The Last Allusionist by Sakina B. Fakhri
POEM: Church by Diana McClure

Volume 1, Issue 8 (2016)

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POETRY: Devil in a Blue Dress by Nancy Flynn
EKPHRASTIC PIECE: What I Couldn't Say by Erika Ranee (visual art) & Diana McClure (poetry)
NOVEL EXCERPT: Zixin at Dinner from The Speech of Flowers and Voiceless Things by Sakina B. Fakhri

Volume 1, Issue 7 (2016)

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JANUARY 2016 CONTEST - WINNING ENTRY:  Brass Tyrant and the American Thirst by Kirk Marshall
EKPHRASTIC PIECE: Clap, Clap Back / Cafe Society by Diana McClure (poetry) & Anders Jones (photographs)
SHORT FICTION: Lady Killer by Monika McGreal Viola
SHORT FICTION: The Ribbons by Ferguson Williams

Volume 1, Issue 6 (2015)

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SEPTEMBER 2015 CONTEST - WINNING ENTRY: New Age Uncaged by Frank Light
EKPHRASTIC PIECE: Immigration/Integration by Diana McClure (poetry) & Jaret Vadera (visual art) 
AZURE ORIGINAL SERIES - INSTALLMENT 3: Aurelia: A Ballet in Prose (Act 2 - Part 1) by Sakina B. Fakhri

Volume 1, Issue 5 (2015)

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NARRATIVE VERSE: The Trials of Tobit by Joseph Lisowski
POEMS: Like Many Giant Footprints (and other poems) by William Doreski
AZURE ORIGINAL SERIES - INSTALLMENT 2: Aurelia: A Ballet in Prose (Act I) by Sakina B. Fakhri

Volume 1, Issue 4 (2015)

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FEATURE STORY: Wardencliff by Barbara Daddino
JUNE 2015 CONTEST - WINNING ENTRY: Better Living Through Chemistry by Reg Darling
AZURE ORIGINAL SERIES - INSTALLMENT 1: Aurelia: A Ballet in Prose (Libretto) by Sakina B. Fakhri
A COLLECTION: A Verse, 2 Poems & A Thought by Diana McClure

Volume 1, Issue 3 (2015)

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"WIKI" FICTION: Lawton, Oklahoma by Mark Lawley
FLASH FICTION: Tweety Bird's Grace by Diana McClure
FLASH FICTION: Contagion and the Dinner Guest by Sakina B. Fakhri
POETRY: On Poetry and Prose by Sakina B. Fakhri

Volume 1, Issue 2 (2015)

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Re: Seasons on a Gravestone by Maxwell Demian
NOVEL EXCERPT: Chapter 1 (from The Speech of Flowers and Voiceless Things) by Sakina B. Fakhri
SCENE: A Conversation by Diana McClure
EXPERIMENTAL SCREENPLAY: Two Mice in a Black Box and the Deconstruction of Language by Sakina B. Fakhri

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2015)

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SCENE: Cocktail Party by Diana McClure
SHORT STORY: Seasons on a Gravestone by Sakina B. Fakhri
CHARACTER SKETCHES: Professor Charlene Cox & Nicky Paul by Diana McClure
NON-FICTION: Vocabulary, the New SAT, & Algerian Post-Colonialism by Sakina B. Fakhri

Our mission: We love work that is linguistically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding of the reader.  We want literary fiction that grows in complexity upon each visitation.  All writers tend to develop a scrap heap of brilliant writing - sharp dialogue that has been cut in service of a plot, a philosophical tirade that can't quite be couched in a narrative, a stunning imagistic landscape of linguistic pyrotechnics that seeks an audience... Literary beauty exists in more than the conventional narrative, we believe, and the most cerebral moments cannot necessarily be expressed in more than bursts and fragments. We seek to provide a space for those portions of works that have been cut away through no fault of their own as well as for those who have achieved a more traditional fruition.

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  • ABOUT
    • Our Literary Aesthetic
    • Staff >
      • Writings by Sakina B. Fakhri
    • Contact Us
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  • AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 4 >
      • TO THOSE FOUND DEAD IN CHIMNEYS by R.W. Plym
      • WHAT TO EXPECT OF LIFE by Steven G. Kellman
      • IF IT WERE DRAWN by Jessica Reed
      • BLOOD IN THE ORCHIDS by Amanda Kotch
      • CORNELIUS RADHOPPER by Peter Arscott
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 3 >
      • ANIMAL INHERITANCE by akhir ali
      • THAT DUDE DERRIDA by Daniel Klawitter
      • FLAT-EARTH FRED by Phil Gallos
      • THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SEMICOLON by Orana Loren
      • MY BALDERDASHERY by Eric Paul Shaffer
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 2 >
      • MIRROR by Joshua Kepfer
      • CUE FALLING PIANO by D.C. Weaver
      • ANTON AND THE ECHO by Cristina Otero
      • THAT WHICH WE TRULY DON'T KNOW by JOACHIM GLAGE
      • CONGRATULATIONS by Alan Sincic
    • AZURE Volume 6, Issue 1 >
      • NEVER, NEVER LAND, MY SHIP by Mark Pearce
      • THE SMILE OF MONA LISA by Fatima Ijaz
      • OUROBOROS by Esme Sammons
      • THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA by Margaret D. Stetz
      • SNICKER-SNACK by Bruce Meyer
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 4 >
      • THE OWLET AND THE TURTLE by Greg Sendi
      • BRACTS and other poems by Nathaniel Calhoun
      • ANSWERS TO NON-EXISTENT QUESTIONS and other poems by Kevin Griffith
      • NEVERENDING KNOT by Jodie Dalgleish
      • LEARNING TO WALK by Jodie Dalgleish
      • OVERSOUL by P.S. Lutz
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 3 >
      • MAP OF MEMORY by Jesse Schotter
      • BISMILLAH by Abby Minor
      • MICROMORTS by Veronica Tang
      • LOVE LETTER TO LANGUAGE: AN ABECEDARIAN by Saramanda Swigart
      • IF YOU WERE ALL WATER by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 2 >
      • CONTRA FORMALISME by Leland Seese
      • DRUNKEN MAN ON A BICYCLE by Dan Butterworth
      • WOLF TICKETS THROUGH THE FERAL WINTER by Kirk Marshall
      • SYLVANUS, BARD by Marc Lerner
      • THE LOOKING GLASS OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM by Frank Meola
    • AZURE Volume 5, Issue 1 >
      • INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie
      • A SERIES OF PUNCTUATION by Hajar Hussaini
      • ROT AND GLORIANA by Laurel Miram
      • BLUES ON RED by Elie Doubleday
      • MY FICTION: REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF WORK by Richard Kostelanetz
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 4 >
      • ENDNOTES FOR AN ALLOCUTION by Peter Freund
      • UKEMI (and other poems) by Nicole Vento
      • MEMORANDUM ON DESIRE by Laylage Courie
      • THE HOLYWOOD DEUTERONOMY by Jim Shankman
      • AT THE MAD HATTER-MARCH HARE ART GALLERY (and other poems) by M. Ann Reed
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 3 >
      • THE MACHINE, STOLEN FIRE, and PERFORMANCE by Vivek Narayan
      • FIRST FRUITS by Stephen Massimilla
      • ONCE UPON A TOMORROW-TIME by Christopher Routheut
      • YIELD LIGHT OF WAY by Ken Goodman
      • SEVEN TALES by Sara Streett
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 2 >
      • THE PUNCH-CARD CIPHERS by DF Short
      • SHE WAS THE FIRST TO GIVE A TOAST by Kelli Russell Agodon
      • HABLU L-WARIDI by Jesse Hilson
      • THE KEY TO DREAMS by Sean S. Bentley
      • SOFA, SO GOOD, SORT OF by Remy Ngamije
    • AZURE Volume 4, Issue 1 >
      • STAMPING THE DEAD by Habib Mohana
      • LEGS by A. Joachim Glage
      • I THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX by Heikki Huotari
      • LUŽÁNKY by V.B. Borjen
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      • AZURE Volume 3, Issue 4 >
        • TALES UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN by Devon Ortega
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        • SWEET by Melinda Giordano
        • BLACK ROSES by Osamase Ekhator
        • MEET ME TONIGHT ON METAPHOR STREET by Vivek Narayan
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        • MENAGE A TROIS, WITH HORSE by Don Dussault
        • THE BLACK by Ben Colandrea
        • BLUE SKY LANGUAGE by Christien Gholson
        • UN DETECTIVE VIEJO by Franco Strong
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        • THE CLEANSING by Linda Dennard
        • SHUFFLE by Debbie Fox
        • DID YOU FALL OR RISE FROM THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING? by M. Ann Reed
        • THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE PORNQUEEN by Omar Sabbagh
        • KIGALI MEMORIAL by Carlos Andres Gomez
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        • HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY by Joanne B. Mulcahy
        • PROTOCOL NINE-NINE-NINE-NINE by Kenneth Hanes
        • LESS' MORE by TWIXT
        • POINTLESS MR. PROBST by Beatriz Seelaender
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        • SYLVAN PASSAGES by Dan Wood
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        • CLAIMED BY THE SEA by Sam Reese
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        • CROSSHATCHING by M.K. Rainey
        • LULLABY by Barbara Daddino
        • HOUSEMOUTH (and other poems) by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller
        • THE RESIDUE IN PUBLIC TEA AND COFFEE CUPS by V.B. Borjen
        • SYZYGY (and other poems) by Malorie Seeley-Sherwood
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        • DRAGONFLIES: A DISCOURSE ON ANXIETY by Lara Lillibridge
        • AND RICHARD BURBAGE ALSO HAD A SISTER by Freya Shipley
        • THE WATCHERS by M.K. Rainey
        • JAZZ INTERACTION WITH SYMBOLS by Sarah T.
        • SPIDER (and other poems) by Natalie Crick
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        • ECHOES by Daniel Freeman
        • MAPS by Susan Brennan
        • EDGAR'S FATHER'S MAGIC WORDS by JWM Morgan
        • LOCKJAW: IN TWO ACTS by James Blevins
        • WHAT THE LIVING DO by Susan Wadds
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      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 10 >
        • SUSURROS DE RECURRENCIA by Franco Strong
        • THE OLD MAN by Sarah T.
        • PERMUTATIONS by Laura Cesarco Eglin
        • WORLD PEACE 3 by Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
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        • LITTLE GHOST by Danny Judge
        • THE LAST ALLUSIONIST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • CHURCH by Diana McClure
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        • DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS by Nancy Flynn
        • WHAT I COULDN'T SAY by Erika Ranee & Diana McClure
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        • BRASS TYRANT AND THE AMERICAN THIRST by Kirk Marshall
        • LADY KILLER by Monika Viola
        • THE RIBBONS by Ferguson Williams
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 6 >
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT 2 - Part 1) by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • NEW AGE UNCAGED by Frank Light
      • AZURE Volume 1, Issue 5 >
        • THE TRIALS OF TOBIT by Joseph Lisowski
        • LIKE MANY GIANT FOOTPRINTS (and other poems) by William Doreski
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (ACT I) by Sakina B. Fakhri
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        • WARDENCLIFF by Barbara Daddino
        • BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY by Reg Darling
        • AURELIA: A BALLET IN PROSE (LIBRETTO) by Sakina B. Fakhri
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        • LAWTON, OKLAHOMA by Mark Lawley
        • TWEETY BIRD'S GRACE by Diana McClure
        • CONTAGION AND THE DINNER GUEST by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • ON POETRY AND PROSE by Sakina B. Fakhri
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        • TWO MICE IN A BLACK BOX & THE DECONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE by Sakina B. Fakhri
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        • CHARACTER SKETCHES by Diana McClure
        • SEASONS ON A GRAVESTONE by Sakina B. Fakhri
        • COCKTAIL PARTY by Diana McClure
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