“Red Lightning” by Ly Faulk
FLASH FICTION: “As she walked by, I tipped my glass and she winked at me. I watched her go, taking with her my fantasies….”
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BOOK REVIEW: “Using a distinct setting, a complex anti-hero, a series of unsavory, as well as empathetic characters, and most notably, a social heartbeat, Dorothy B. Hughes’ Ride the Pink Horse offers an extremely compelling journey.”
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FICTION: “Seeing her in silhouette, my reaction plummeted to the low level of a lonely, recent dumpee, but when she stepped into the light, my imagination ventured into the realm of shame….”
Read More “Jim Dandy to the Rescue” by D. V. Bennett“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“Street Sweeping in the City that Works” by David Hagerty
FICTION: “A fresh breeze off the lake carried away the roar of cars and the decaying scents of the city. Yet before he’d passed the trinket shop, two police officers blocked his way….”
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POETRY: “I had to remind myself, / uphill or down, / never to speak of this again….”
Read More “Uncanny Valley” By Gary D. Rhodes“No stupid moves: Frank Oz’s The Score” By Anees Aref
REVIEW ESSAY: “Thieves should respect their elders, too.”
Read More “No stupid moves: Frank Oz’s The Score” By Anees Aref“Retribution, with Extreme Prejudice” by Glen Bush
FICTION: “I could feel his breath on the back of my neck. That made me even more nervous, so I started to turn around and answer him but that’s when he hit me with a hard punch to my kidney….”
Read More “Retribution, with Extreme Prejudice” by Glen Bush“Jonathan Latimer, Skilled Artisan of the Crime Genre: Headed for a Hearse (1935)” by William Blick
BOOK REVIEW: “Demonstrates a degree of mastery of plot, character, and structure as the mystery is solved with all twists and turns readers have come to expect from the genre….”
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NONFICTION: “There are three outstanding features of Thompson’s novel: (1) the Shakespearean intensity of love and hate depicted in closely bound men and women; (2) the simmering resentment, shame, and fear existing between Oklahomans and Native American descendants of the Five civilized Tribes; and (3) Thompson‘s and Caldwell’s versions of Southern Gothic melodrama.”
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