“Oh and One” by Joseph Hirsch

POETRY: “Unburdened of victory, and with it, expectation….”

“The Prodigy” by Jim Towns

POETRY: “The burned shell / of the house / sat empty for years….”

“Charged with Manslaughter in Her Boyfriend’s Suicide” by Charles Rammelkamp

POETRY: “goading him to take his life, / Lola claimed it was free speech….”

“Urbanología” by Giovanni Mangiante

POETRY: “the closest they got to heaven….”

“The Ad-Man” by Brad K. Hawley

POETRY: “When I got there, my hands were empty…. with one detective who believed in me, I might have surrendered….”

“Peacemaker” by Gary D. Rhodes

POETRY: “My arm of fire…low and mournful….”

“She Walks” by Matthew Sorrento

POETRY: “She’ll keep things swift, dialed up…as they want it….”

“Eldritch” by Gary D. Rhodes

POETRY: “Nobody laughed when everybody laughed….”

“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 […]

“At the Other End of the Hall” by Kevin Pilkington

She was staring the way a novel does that no one will ever open…. I learned a lot about hunger early on. It was the way cancer ate, always starving, feeding on my grandmother in the bedroom down the hall from mine. It was the last month and the only time she lived with us. […]