Category Archives: Past

like fireflies by Terrie Leigh Relf the children gave chase with jam and jelly jars through a copse of trees into an open field their laughter trailing behind light from a comet’s tail and then we gave chase struggling to … Continue reading →

Birthing a Chimera by Joseph Fitzpatrick   Take a perfectly healthy lion’s head of significant autumn gold and place it on a burlap-brown goat’s body.  Then pin a scaly green-muck tail on the rear and you have one bona fide … Continue reading →

Nova by Jason McCall Somewhere a star is dying and you are here complaining about the volume of the band and dim lights in the bar. _______________ Jason McCall’s debut collection,  Silver,  is forthcoming from Main Street Rag.  He is … Continue reading →

Frenzy by Mari Ness   Every fall,  without fail she kills her son.  Sometimes they vary the date,  allow him to catch a movie first before the long fall into the cold rivers still flowing outside belief in the pale … Continue reading →

Voyager by O. J. Cade A sparrow flies through a dark hall. The hall is empty, and through the shuttered windows light shines from other dwelling places, all of which are also empty. It does not remember the first hearth … Continue reading →

Response to Poe’s “Sonnet – To Science” by Scott Nickell But what’s so dull about reality? To me it’s sad to think that—so you say— Your summer dream beneath the tamarind tree Is by mere breaths of Science blown away … Continue reading →

Of Earth by Sandra McDonald   One humid day in late summer I took my newest wife to the races.  She carried a green silk parasol against the twin suns and I wore my best tunic.  We sipped melon drinks … Continue reading →

  Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em by Jaelithe Ingold Cora likes agate for the eyes of her golem, while I prefer amber. Father says amber makes the creatures more violent. More destructive. Footsteps rustle through the grass behind our play area. … Continue reading →

 The Old Factory Award by Grey Freeman   The Old Factory stands forgotten upon a small and narrow road folded between a street filled with shops, cafes and bakeries and another beaded with pubs, clubs and wine bars. Its flaking … Continue reading →