In This Issue
At the End We Begin Again
She was flying in her dream, flying through the sacred sky, when she tumbled through the clouds and landed in a heap of rubble upon the earth. Then she knew she was no longer dreaming because someone trampled on top of her trying to get somewhere else. She tried to...
Terry a. O’Neal
Terry a. O'Neal Terry a. O'Neal is an American writer and photographer. O'Neal was named one of the century's great Black women writers in a book entitled Literary Divas: The Top 100+ Most Admired African-American Women Writers in Literature.
Consideration of Tasks
Before I wrote color essays for an arts magazine, I was curator of a gallery. Before I became a curator, I was moving 3000 miles across the United States. Before the 3000 miles, I was meditating six hours a day in the snow. Before the stillness and cold, I was a...
Women’s Liberation
I write about my mother in beginnings. 1187 words. Then 1090, then 886, then 690. Finally, something I title, “Mom, Trying,” but it’s a blank page. A pretend surface for zero ideas. A bald-faced failure. Mine and hers. Then not-made-up short fiction: a 1971...
Counseling Session
Let’s begin with memory. How do you usually find yourself returning to your past… thrust back by crisis, needing overdue explanations and ready to demand them? Or slowly, a sadness beginning to make itself painfully evident? Or swept away by...
Call Sheet
This morning when I walk out to the pool two mallard ducks, one green, one flocked in blue, float quiet ripples, unfazed by yellow buses’ loud brakes, vested city workers unfolding plastic gates before they dig up asphalt, drop sweat, cough words down below. ...
Smoke Signals
Whenever Steve smoked on the patio, his son Robin would sit on the back doorstep and talk. The cutest Pokémon, the weirdest YouTuber, how he’d like to fly south for the winter like a bird, how he liked art but was rubbish at it. Robin’s thoughts chugged out of him...
Jaime Greenberg
Jaime Greenberg Jaime Greenberg is a writer and photographer who writes with words and light. She lives in South Florida with her husband and two teenagers–and also in her imagination. Her work has appeared in Prime Number Magazine. She posts on...
Tae Won Kim
Tae Won Kim Tae Won Kim is a student in North London Collegiate School, Korea, and is on his way to the International Baccalaureate. As he prevails through his journey from 1st year of high school, he thrives to learn more and more techniques for the deeper...
Pockets Full
Her wish came true. From then on, she always had in her pocket the exact amount of money she wanted. She bought a house, an SUV, thousands of computers for underprivileged girls, a guided tour around the world, a private jet, a horse, alexandrite. Until that fateful...
When the Butterflies Dance
“Momma, where’s Mamaw?” “I think she’s out in the yard somewhere.” Regina Woody opened the back screen door and called out, “Mamaw! Mamaw are you out here? Then she spotted the old lady down along the fence standing very quiet and still. She was watching...
Objects Near Fenway Park
I thought I was Li Po, had moonwine midnight feelin’ alright, but my Mandarin was a nightmare and all the trolleys stopped at Harvard Sq. when it was still called Peking, a long walk down a dark hall, the door to out. Oh, there was Jesse Colin Young in the...
Nice Girls Say Please
Unicorn and Pegasus sat down with the Queen. Unicorn’s horn went somewhere obsc – “Cream with your scones?” Nice girls say please. Knock, knock? Who’s there? Mother told me not to swear. Knock, knock? Go away, come again another day. Knock, knock, knock. Go away,...
Tetman Callis
Tetman Callis Tetman Callis is a writer and artist who lives in Chicago. His stories and poems have been published in a variety of literary magazines. His photographs, painting, and mixed media pieces have shown in galleries in Albuquerque and New York...
The Chaise
A young woman lies, shining, on a chaise by a pool. She tilts her head forward. This flattens the neck, turns it into a lovely puddle of brown butter. She examines her midriff. At the same moment, a man passes. He is old enough to remember fresh footage of...
Linda K Allison
Linda K Allison Linda Allison is a recovering banker living in The Woodlands Texas with the love of her life, found late in life. She is a hiker, traveler, photographer, emerging writer, and terrible golfer who loves to play. In 2019 she decided to leave her...
Delivery
Each time gets you instant skinny. As soon as the kid slips out. Okay, maybe not exactly “slips.” More like twenty-two hours of show-off stoic teeth-clenching stuffed-down guttural silent wailing, spring-loaded contorted spasming and twisted viscera vice-gripped...
Featured Artist: JC Alfier
JC Alfier Some of the pieces depict partial, oblique, or frontal female nudity to illustrate Carl Jung’s concept of the Anima: the female part of the male psyche — sensual, often oblique female archetypes where allegories give shape to dreamscapes of the...
Featured Author: Christy Prahl
Seventh Summer A not so rare November day that impersonates June, bisque of sun, Ligurian sky when Sylvia, from the mailroom, who walks with a cane, /diabetes to claim her right foot by spring/ joins me outside for a forbidden smoke....
Just Started School
Mother didn’t talk much. Didn’t want to fall foul of the thought police. There was the ugly guy with the cruel, crooked mouth who owned the house and loved his chickens. He believed. ‘Heil Hitler’. We’d brought our blackboards. My old teacher had a desk on a...
Swear to God? Or How to Seduce the Most Beautiful Girl in Town
Male high school students back in the 1950s were prone, like teenage boys everywhere, to boast about their exploits. Whenever one of them told a story that was hard to believe, the others would blurt, “Swear to God?” The storyteller was required to reply: “Swear to...
Moon in Daylight
Palely the residues of evening coalesce to form this faint ablation sailing over head, this lustrous oculus in daybreak’s alabaster dome, this remnant of the jeweled dark that wanly drifts across the dawn’s triumphant light. O fading psychopomp of evening’s...
Ron Theel
Ron Theel Ron Theel is a freelance writer, mixed media artist, and photographer living in Syracuse, New York. His writing and/or artwork has appeared in “The RavensPerch,” “The Bluebird Word,” “Open: Journal of Arts & Letters,” and forthcoming in “Beyond...
Yujin Suh
Yujin Suh Yujin Suh is a 11th grade student at Seoul Foreign School located in Seoul, Korea. Her major focus in art relates to painting with social aspects. She uses her fine arts skills into using various media such as watercolor, oil painting, acrylics and...
Jim Ross
Jim Ross Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after a rewarding career in public health research. With graduate degree from Howard University, in eight years he's published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, hybrid, and plays in 175 journals on...
Lisa Rigge
Lisa Rigge Lisa Rigge is an artist living in Pleasanton, CA. She is a photographer whose photographs and/or collages have been published in The Sun Magazine, LensWork, Passager Books Pandemic Diaries, and 3Elements. Her articles, poetry and/or journal...
Paul Rabinowitz
Paul Rabinowitz Paul Rabinowitz is an author, poet, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People. His works appear in The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Evening Street Press, The Montreal Review and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in...
Eun Seo Kim
Eun Seo Kim Eun Seo Kim is a junior attending North London Collegiate School in Jeju island, Korea. She collaborates fine art with philosophical themes, presenting personal stories or opinions with her painting. She developed her art skills into mixed media...
Min Sung Park
Min Sung Park Min Sung Park is a junior attending Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Min Sung has been working on product designing in the past and he wishes to continue working on product designing, and art as well as his interests on world issues and...
Jahin Claire Oh
Jahin Claire Oh Jahin Claire Oh is a ninth grader at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California. She likes to code and takes an interest in media art for fun. She prefers warm tones over cool tones and generally likes calming imagery with naturalistic...
Michael Hower
Michael Hower When Michael Hower began digital photography ten years ago it was founded upon a fascination with abandoned buildings and landscapes. His work focuses on historical themes, portraying human objects/structures in modified environments now devoid of...
Falling
A crack of thunder jolted Sarah from a dream as lightning flared, casting shadows on the bedroom walls. She blinked. A fleeting thought: secure the unfurled patio umbrella and outdoor cushions, or the storm would ruin morning brunch with her parents. Beside her, Nick...
Lena N. Gemmer
Lena N. Gemmer Lena Neris Gemmer is originally from the quiet foggy town of Montara CA where she began her love of writing on her grandfather's Remington Rand typewriter. Before deciding to pursue her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at UNH, she received her...
Curating
I shift a pile of books on my desk, and dozens of slips of paper shower to the floor. They’re wrinkled and torn, some no larger than one square inch, each decorated in my dad’s shaky cursive—noting an idea, a page number, the name of a theologian long dead. My dad...
Jane Hammons taught writing for three decades at UC Berkeley, where she received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Upon retirement, she moved to Austin, Texas, for five years before returning home to New Mexico. Her writing appears in numerous journals and anthologies: Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwestern American Literature, The Main Street Rag, Yellow Medicine Review, Hint Fiction, (Norton), The EastOver Anthology of Rural Writers of Color, 2023 and 2024, The Maternal is Political (Seal Press), and Selected Memories, (Hippocampus Books). She enjoys photography as part of her writing practice, and three of her photographs are included in Taking It To the Streets: A Visual History of Protest and Demonstration, an exhibition of the Austin History Center. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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Michael C. Roberts is a retired pediatric psychologist and professor. He has digital and film photographs in Burningword, The Canary, The Storms, FERAL, Cholla Needles, Cantos, The Healing Muse, Cold Moon, Right Hand Pointing, Door is a Jar, Camas, Hindsight, Straylight, Thimble, Ponder, Closed Eye Open, Alchemy Spoon, 3rd Wednesday, The Right Words, Cardinal Sins, Human Obscura, Blue Mesa Review, The Word’s Faire, and elsewhere. In his recent photography, he has been exploring minimalism as projection and abstraction. The simplicity of minimalism reduces both nature and the human-made to their basics, revealing the essential beauty in structure and form. Although austere, these silhouetted images of nature allow the viewer to appreciate the world’s simple complexity and basic beauty.
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