Volume 1, Issue 4 (June 2015)
SHORT FICTION
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"Suppose, reader, on a cool summer day, you descended a long wooden stair that led through a bluff to a beach - call it Wardencliff - in search of, say a hag, who is rumored to live in a cave by the shore…" |
CREATIVE NON-FICTION (CONTEST WINNER
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"As I drew nearer to the old Catholic church, its weathered brick surface was flickering, writhing, and changing. The building metamorphosed into a huge, coiled rattlesnake, though it also remained a building in some partial way beyond explanation. " |
A BALLET IN PROSE: INSTALLMENT 1
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For the next five months, AZURE will publish serial installments of Aurelia: A Ballet in Prose, a contemporaneously unfolding novel by Sakina B. Fakhri. A libretto establishing the 5-Act story structure and plot thread is provided in this issue. "The last extant monastery of the Order of Circassia was designed with an eye towards Pythagorean-Platonic numerical theories and their interaction with the cosmic constellations; oculi in the parapets accorded with the movements of stars in particular seasons; coruscating beams rendered intricate its interior. Later, performers in the court of Catherine de Medici would dance according to the configurations by which this monastery admitted starlight." |
A COLLECTION
A VERSE, 2 POEMS & A THOUGHT - Diana McClure
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"“America’s not a country. It’s a corporation.” Killing black boys a #1 occupation Protect the wealthy – translation – Poor people got no place in this nation Human rights forgotten on the plantation Mythologized in the wake of integration Lost on a globe full of frustration..." |
Customized illustrations for all published pieces are provided by Evgenia Barsheva.