Thieving Magpie
Vanessa Poster – Bio
Vanessa Poster, a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writer’s Collective, has studied Method Writing with Jack Grapes for…
Vanessa Poster – Three Poems
He walks the battlefield
steps over corpses
collects swords, shields, to stack
in piles.
Mindy Ohringer – Fiction
“My father always detested ‘M.A.S.H.’ He thought it represented the normalization of war.”
Velgarde – Three Poems for Summer
The sun is a flaming orange
afro, teased and fluffed, spilling
its nectar on hot concrete sidewalks,
evaporating like exhaust-fume mirages,
just beyond my...
From the Files of Burning Dad: Assassination Plot
Besides sex and drugs, using language is the only real benefit of adulthood.
Linda Neal – Essay
We remember how we forgot to hurt when we danced in stiletto pumps. What we wish for now is another...
Linda Neal – Bio
Linda Neal first wrote poems when she was in high school. She went on to study literature at Pomona College,…
Christine Conner – Poem
The cheese I know comes from the beautiful cows, cows as beautiful as princesses that graciously graze on the deep...
Liz Tynes Netto – Fiction
She took the swan now in her arms, began to untwist its neck. It felt like killing the thing. But...
Issue 2 Welcomes Summer 2018
We have made it to Issue 2! Our goal was to produce an issue every season. For now, we are…