There is no love.
There’s black smoke.
There’s cigarette air
and there are automobiles breaking down
in the inclement weather.

Matt Surface’s literary work has appeared in New Reader Magazine and won 3rd place for the 2022 Olive […]

You hear him huffing his way to the house, cussing his key ring for falling from his hand. You feel his bumbling presence as he trudges through the door, letting a hint of winter wind into the hall before shutting it tight behind him. If it wasn’t for a very sudden and violent sneeze that came upon you, he likely wouldn’t have noticed you there, disheveled and defeated.

David R. Bowne is an Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, USA. […]

I remember hearing certain people thought flowers were obscene. That floral displays were essentially pornography, with uncovered carpel and stamen, reproductive organs for all to see, spread open, luring us in with vivid displays of botanical sexuality.

Alan Cohen was already a poet before he became a primary Care physician, teacher, and manager, and has […]

Penny, a house dog, relegated to the split level first floor playroom
Sweet and well-behaved until, undogged, undone by thunderstorms
She cowered, shaking, under the couch
Or broke taboo and slunk upstairs

We make art to bring about the justice, peace and mischief we need to see.

Balazs steps forward and introduces me. I tentatively reach out my hand, and his father shakes it with the instant comradery that comes from living shoulder to shoulder with ones’ neighbors in the blue-collar districts of Budapest.

Zach Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in Reed Magazine, The […]