Volume 1, Issue 9 (May/June 2016)

SHORT STORY

LITTLE GHOST - Danny Judge

​"Instead of a tiny plaything, a symbolic manifestation of the physical consequences of an emotional choice, one clearly meant for the eyes of desperate new mothers. A tiny little faceless (almost) fetus, swaddled latex in loving four-inch felt, its room temperature “flesh” used, by my own sister no less, as a little tool like phonics to teach a lesson straight and early about the insidious sin of the big goddamned A-word—to teach a child, a little six-year-old who strokes it lovingly with no adult sense whatsoever of its ulterior significance. Of course all this means nothing to me. I’ll never choose."

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SHORT STORY

THE LAST ALLUSIONIST  - Sakina B. Fakhri

"I inserted the pages neatly between the two rollers and cranked the handle in circles with my right hand as I called back to the lad, “I’d recommend Proust instead of Poe—a heavier, more bodily darkness to balance the citrus twang of Kafka.” As I cranked, the ink was leaked from the page through a metal tube into two cups, which I swirled with ease."

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POEM

CHURCH - Diana McClure

“...Next level prayer
Elevation sans stairs
New values a dare
Consciousness my au pair."

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Customized illustrations for all published pieces are provided by Evgenia Barsheva.