Thieving Magpie

Michael Chin – Flash Fiction

“They’re homages.” Big Todd used the same voice he used when he was reminding Little Todd that Basic Instinct went...

Gerard Sarnat won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award, the Dorfman Prize and…

There’s scent of
blood in the barn
where someone
hung my prize
hog upside down

Kyle Caldwell is from Ontario, Canada and has been featured in several publications, including Urbanicity, Broken Pencil, and the Owl…

Vikram knelt down and stroked the dog and it nuzzled into him weakly. He glanced again at the corpse and...

Jonathan Frank is a retired High School Counselor and Homebound Tutor. He’s now a volunteer teacher who designs courses in…

I live in a world of stink—the stink of men, the stink of food, the stink of bug spray. As...

Holly Day has been a writing instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis since 2000. Her poetry has recently…

My earliest memory is of crawling to the edge of a cliff
and seeing nothing but pink and blue clouds beneath...

Amy K. Genova is former teacher, writer, and naughty girl among other mis-directions. She recently self-published a chapbook of prose…