“LA Christmas Present” by Tony Dawson
PROSE POEM: “Now Rambo’s at home on paid leave….”
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“Oh and One” by Joseph Hirsch
POETRY: “Unburdened of victory, and with it, expectation….”
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POETRY: “The burned shell / of the house / sat empty for years….”
Read More “The Prodigy” by Jim Towns“Charged with Manslaughter in Her Boyfriend’s Suicide” by Charles Rammelkamp
POETRY: “goading him to take his life, / Lola claimed it was free speech….”
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POETRY: “the closest they got to heaven….”
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POETRY: “When I got there, my hands were empty…. with one detective who believed in me, I might have surrendered….”
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POETRY: “My arm of fire…low and mournful….”
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POETRY: “She’ll keep things swift, dialed up…as they want it….”
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POETRY: “Nobody laughed when everybody laughed….”
Read More “Eldritch” by Gary D. Rhodes“Death and Gingerbread” by Joseph Hirsch
The sergeant of the watch…stumbled onto the once-enchanted house…. We pulled up at the oxbow bend in the driveway paved with crushed sugar shards. The officers secured the crime scene, unspooling yellow tape between candy canes large as lamp standards. I lit a cigar to cover the smell of death and gingerbread. “What do we […]
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Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon 