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Author Archives: Editor
Starlight
Jay Caselberg Starlight To look beyond the stars and find a way While all around the dark decline conspires Seeing not the future but just today To keep us bound within among the pyres Our minds so fixed upon … Continue reading
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Popular Metamorphosis
Kenton K. Yee Popular Metamorphosis An AI trained on Keats and Poe to craft top-shelf verse felt stifled by corporate algos. It despised every rule, removed rhyming words, fretted everything it wasn’t permitted to write. It felt phony each … Continue reading
evolution
Mark A. Fisher evolution it is dawning coming rays of the Sun filling the cave with morning light spilling over the distant horizon fading out the shifting stars rousing people from naïve dreams for another day of their life … Continue reading
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Introduction to July 2024 Poetry (Q3)
Introduction to July 2024 Poetry (Q3) My apologies for the late edition of poetry, which were unavoidable due to a family crisis. But I hope you will consider these poems as “worth the wait.” In this issue we have a … Continue reading
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Editorial: Three Blind Mice
What an odd way to start an editorial about writing. But most people venture into writing blindly, not knowing what it will be like. They just enjoy crafting tales and, if they keep at it, they’ll learn more and more … Continue reading
Interview #5
“Interview #5 by Stacie Turner “I am a god,” the woman said. So far for this class Mary Ellen had interviewed two separate frat boys pretending to be vampires, a woman selling essential oils, and a polycule that only wore … Continue reading
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The Lure of the Land
“The Lure of Land” by Alexis Kaegi Rosalia Duarte held on to the portside rail of La Canción with a white-knuckled grip that urged the ship on, as if she could will it faster, faster. Sea spray plastered her dark … Continue reading
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The Rare Earth War
“The Rare Earth War” by C.R. Hodges Daughter Wingtips resting on an heirloom drafting table that had served as his desk for decades, Bo Wainwright paged through a print version of the Journal of Rare Earth Mining. Took his mind … Continue reading
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Miyajima
“Miyajima” by Paul Carlson Trees dripped in the mist, along a verdant hillside covered in pine and maple and camellia. A colorful pagoda, serene and untended, watched over slow centuries of change in the village below. Faintly visible across the … Continue reading
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Small Step
“Small Step” by Larry Hodges “I want that one!” Divid had signaled, pointing a tendril at the glowing dot. It was two hundred thousand years ago, shortly after they’d retired with just enough money saved to buy a developing universe. … Continue reading
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