Charles Joseph Albert is the author of three novels, seven poetry collections, and three collections of short stories. […]

The Cop-Watch Advocates demanded to know Zapata’s name, and filmed the suspect and his pool of blood with great enthusiasm. The suspect, though, was cleared by a medical team. Meanwhile, several of his victims began loudly telling their stories to the sergeant, which made for much less compelling cinematography.

Christiana Doucette spends mornings in her garden, because like poetry, flowers grow best with space to breathe. She […]

Oh, sky that certain clear cold blue, we go/back. We are washing dishes here/suds between our fingers. Indoor. But fear/places us in the car. Plays the announcers/voice crumbling like block towers. Fall.

Born in Mexico, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los […]

I/wander off to/a carnival where/madmen think/away strange/and unimaginable/things, like becoming/small as a grain/of salt, disappearing,/almost invisible.

Harvey Huddleston’s short fiction has appeared in The RavensPerch and Mystery Tribune among many others.  He received a […]

They say ignorance is bliss.  Which means the less you know the happier you are.  It follows then that learning something new costs some happiness.  But people learn new things all the time so that means your whole life you become less happy.

A frequent member of our Parliament of Magpies, Marco Etheridge is a writer of prose, an occasional playwright, […]

The earth beneath our boots became a slippery soup of water and blood. Bodies stacked up four and five deep. We took to throwing corpses over the timberworks to make room for the fighting. Some of them bodies took so many musket balls they fell apart in your hands when you tried to heave them over.