Kevin Mc Dermott is a Dublin-based writer. He is the author of six novels for young adults. His […]

Was the moment of death miraculous, rapturous, all you imagined
And hoped for? And did your soul surge with joy?
And was there someone there to welcome you? I hope so.

Matt Cantor is a surrealist from Boston, Massachusetts. He has been lucky to work in the past with […]

Vincent had invented the sunflowers, and he’d invented the stars, and he’d invented the hills and the fields and his bedroom; maybe it wasn’t so strange to think that he was inventing the rain.

Ellie May was an accountant most of her working life. She lives with her husband of thirty-plus years […]

She wore, not a lightweight mask made of cloth, but a half-face respirator with two filter cartridges, as though against a gas attack. She felt Alan staring and glanced at him, then turned back to hand the manager her payment.

John Tustin’s poetry has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009.  fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry contains links to his published […]

I walk stumblingly and loud
The way that us man-apes walk
And the birds rustle in the brush –
Then ascend

Rowan Margerum is a senior at Cheltenham High School. She won a National Silver medal for novel writing […]

My boots thud rhythmically on the flagstone path as I cross campus, my face cool and calm though my mind seethes with frustration. I’ve been telling everyone for weeks now that Marjorie’s out to get me, but no one seems to be making the same connections I am.