Category Archives: Past

Keeping Tabs By Kenneth Schneyer   I was so excited when I could finally buy a Tab. They cost so much, you know, but I saved up for maybe six months. I waitressed at Antonio’s in the North End, and … Continue reading →

 “Hungry” by Ryan J. Southworth “Smoke rises before the feast. Feast before the flames. Flames before the famine.” – Proverb etched above the gate to Greystone Castle The royal carriage clattered and shook. It seemed to bounce from one rock … Continue reading →

Random Fire by Van Aaron Hughes   June 10: I never kept a journal. I made day-to-day notes on my research, but a file for personal thoughts always struck me as vanity. Today, however, a little vanity is appropriate. Someday, … Continue reading →

Please join me in thanking Trent Walters for all his wonderful work as our poetry editor. He gave us time for an orderly transition when Real Life made his commitment to us untenable, and helped settle in the new poetry … Continue reading →

  Michael R. Fosburg Mischlings I watched over the forest children: the young ones, the winged ones, the little ones who hid beneath rocks and sipped dew from forest flowers; I tended those that grew from earth to bloom, butterfly-like, … Continue reading →

In the End Basking in Love by A. B. S. Dudevant Sol’s flares embrace Earth, a long lost lover securing souls back to its bosom. _______________ Born in Chicago, raised in Paris, and currently living in California, A. B. S. … Continue reading →

Terraforming Mars by Benjamin Cartwright I. Orbits and surveys mark the stubble and contours of a red face– those stubborn landscapes of dust and canal returned and embedded with lenses and in pixels until they inhabit dreams. II. Rovers and … Continue reading →

Where’s My Attitude? by Conor Powers-Smith   G-7’s were in style just then. They were detached, ironic; flirtatious, in a detached, ironic way. Tessie liked them well enough, when she had hers on, but that was the same as saying … Continue reading →