In the Light of the Wisps
SHORT FICTION by Marisca Pichette Heliconia lives in the willow boughs. Her face sways between the leaves, green in the summertime and golden in the fall. She is falling now, her willow switch dress snapping against air. When she hits the ground
Grey
POETRY by Ashely Adams // Illustration by J.R. Bolt I am NOT saying Raytheon is perfect or great. I am saying that this is probably more grey than it initially seems. I used to
Because They Could Not Stop
SHORT FICTION by Dennis Mombauer The seed plummets back toward the womb. V. Clinzell watches the atmosphere grow, the endless ocean and the ruins rising from below. The position lights shine from under the waves, the signal arrays have drowned decades ago. Because they
The Empath
SHORT FICTION by Raquel S. Benedict The stranger’s suffering called to her across a great stretch of wood and thicket. Its distance, its faintness should have made it easy to ignore, but instead it nagged at her like a scab one is
Swelter and Shade
SHORT FICTION by Wendy Nikel We used to live in the city, until the day Mr. Fitz's A/C died in a traffic jam. By the time they found him and pried his car doors open, the old man was dead, the back
Myerscough & Skelton
SHORT FICTION by Tim Jeffreys They came only on grey days, or so it seemed to Victor. Foreshadowed. They came on quiet days. Damp days. Tuesdays. Nothing days. They came on days when the sky was overcast and the color seemed bleached out of
I Sexually Identify as the “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” Controversy
SHORT FICTION by June Martin // Illustration by Sam Hindman Log off? Can’t be done. Some people are online, but I am online. Every time I touch something with my fingers, I know they’re wrong. Tactile sensation should be alien to me