“Confounded: Crime Scene Notes” by Gary D. Rhodes
POETRY: “lacerations throb, even in death….”
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“Hey Baby” by Charles Rammelkamp
POETRY: “She or her assistant or the AI program / or whoever responded to my comments / made no insinuations….”
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POETRY: “I snicker now, the announcement of the Nobel Prize Chemistry Award winners having jogged my memory, as I hobble behind my aluminum walker…. “
Read More “The Purple Pit Cigarette Girl” by Charles Rammelkamp“The Big Heat – From On Dangerous Ground: Film Noir Poems” by Woody Haut
POETRY: “At the heart of the heat…/post-war hell….”
Read More “The Big Heat – From On Dangerous Ground: Film Noir Poems” by Woody Haut“Lonely Hearts Killers: From 1943 to 1947” by Dane Ince
POETRY: “If the Lonely Heart were merely depressed / They fixed that easy….”
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POETRY: “never very entertaining / they have the purpose of oblivion….”
Read More “Mid Dive” by Dane Ince“Kakure Kirishitan: Our Sacred Oribe” by David Ryan
POETRY: “Hundreds dead outside our garden…Fear marks our quiet burden….”
Read More “Kakure Kirishitan: Our Sacred Oribe” by David Ryan“Uncanny Valley” By Gary D. Rhodes
POETRY: “I had to remind myself, / uphill or down, / never to speak of this again….”
Read More “Uncanny Valley” By Gary D. Rhodes“Jane Doe #11-12” by Don Thompson
POETRY: “Not all anonymity is equal.”
Read More “Jane Doe #11-12” by Don Thompson“LA Christmas Present” by Tony Dawson
PROSE POEM: “Now Rambo’s at home on paid leave….”
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Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon 