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Author Archives: Editor
Follow the Meandering Path
Beth Cato Follow the Meandering Path to be nine-years-old at my first-ever full-weekend family reunion smothered and suffocated by Avon-perfumed hugs and endless inane commentary about how big I was then, when I thought things couldn’t get worse dragged to … Continue reading
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Becoming, not being
Richard Magahiz Becoming, not being gracetime grains of dog-bodies scull in precious cream … Continue reading
The Little Match Girl Burns It All Down
Gretchen Tessmer The Little Match Girl Burns It All Down cedar smoke has smoldered up the mountain a serpent coiled in red is at her feet the girl who burns it down is on her knees sparking flames before a … Continue reading
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As I Tremble Watching My Son Sleep By The Sea
David Luntz As I Tremble Watching My Son Sleep By The Sea He knows he must always step into a rainbow through its center. This is one of the many lessons the sea has taught him. He is only four … Continue reading
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Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry Issue 80
Introduction to Abyss & Apex Poetry Issue 80 Dear Readers: As usual, expect to enjoy an eclectic blend of fine speculative poems, some are experimental, others narrative, all enjoyable. It’s always a thrill for me to see work from around … Continue reading
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#buttonsinweirdplaces
#buttonsinweirdplaces by Simon Kewin The buttons started to appear on the last day of April, 2022. A six-year-old boy from Nairobi, Jomi Mbenzi, was perhaps the first to spot one. Dawdling along behind his mother, her swaying yellow-orange dress and … Continue reading
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Vestigial Organs
“Vestigial Organs” by R. Overwater A lobster trap. Beaten by a lobster trap. One of the few things that could have possibly ruined tonight. Beaten by a black-and-white photo of a crustacean peering through a row of wooden slats, one … Continue reading
Things Can Only Get Better
“Things Can Only Get Better” by Fiona Moore “Do you know the old joke about the toaster mining bitcoin to pay its gambling debt to the fridge?” Detective Wilhemine Fitzjames, of the London Metropolitan Police’s Automotive Crimes Division, said. “No,” … Continue reading
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Glamoured
“Glamoured” by Finley Harper It was midnight, on the sixteenth anniversary of the night the Fae stole me. Garlands of leaves, white elderflowers and silver bells adorned my neck, wrists and ankles: gifts from the Seelie Court in return for … Continue reading
Geo Sink
“Geo Sink” by John Taloni Alice looked at her ringing phone. A number she hadn’t seen in years flashed on it. She’d stopped programming the name in three phones ago. “Johnny,” she said, accepting the call after a moment’s hesitation. … Continue reading