“American Psychos” by Vince A. Liaguno

POETRY: “Cinema and psycho, a fine-tuned formula / of violence and charisma—time-honored and as popular / as warm apple pie on Thanksgiving….”

“Confounded: Crime Scene Notes” by Gary D. Rhodes

POETRY: “lacerations throb, even in death….”

“Hey Baby” by Charles Rammelkamp

POETRY: “She or her assistant or the AI program / or whoever responded to my comments / made no insinuations….”

“The Purple Pit Cigarette Girl” by Charles Rammelkamp

POETRY: “I snicker now, the announcement of the Nobel Prize Chemistry Award winners having jogged my memory, as I hobble behind my aluminum walker…. “

“The Big Heat – From On Dangerous Ground: Film Noir Poems” by Woody Haut

POETRY: “At the heart of the heat…/post-war hell….”

“Lonely Hearts Killers: From 1943 to 1947” by Dane Ince

POETRY: “If the Lonely Heart were merely depressed / They fixed that easy….”

“Mid Dive” by Dane Ince

POETRY: “never very entertaining / they have the purpose of oblivion….”

“Kakure Kirishitan: Our Sacred Oribe” by David Ryan

POETRY: “Hundreds dead outside our garden…Fear marks our quiet burden….”

“Uncanny Valley” By Gary D. Rhodes

POETRY: “I had to remind myself, / uphill or down, / never to speak of this again….”

“Jane Doe #11-12” by Don Thompson

POETRY: “Not all anonymity is equal.”