Flee To Safety by Leigh-Anne Burley
Dodging a Jim Beam bottle hurled in her direction, Haley bolts through the back door and runs on a dirt path to the river [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
Aunt Aggie by Lynn White
It was a beautiful seventeenth century farmhouse
in a picture postcard English village,
the family home of Liz
who would drop me off [...]
“In A Black Hollow It Reigns”- Oil on canvas, J. Wolitzky by Brandon Everett
The Gunther Observatory loomed tall and imposing, adorned with intricate carvings that whispered of forgotten secrets. [...]
Lunch Conversation: Cadaver Parts; November Carnage by Jan Ball
Between forkfuls of fresh catfish,
Ted shares how his dentist built up
his jaw with ground cadaver bones [...]
Untitled X 3 by Margo Block
the castle brims with ghosts and nightmares
shut behind cobbled stone
a white shot against shadows
hands outstretched for directions [...]
Tall Tales by Calla Smith
“I’m an airplane pilot,” the man said. He had had a few beers in the hotel’s bar by then, even though it had only opened [...]
Memento Mori by Annette Dekker
Clinging to antediluvian violet granite
at the foot of the Terry Fox memorial
in Thunder Bay
a magnificent hand-sized moth [...]
Cannonball Blues by Christopher Butt
“Welcome to the Greatest Show on what’s left of Earth!” the Ringmaster proclaimed to the mostly empty stands [...]
My Old Lady or in the Time of Wild Eyed Prophets and Grocery Carts by Brian Michael Barbeito
Do you know when it is the middle of dusk and you are in the centre of a liminal time? People don’t talk about the middle of dusk [...]
Italian Intrigue: A Quartet by R.P. Logan
Aroused from my sleep by a distant peal
a solemn, singular measure
and catch a glimpse through the curtain lace
of the woman I prize [...]
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