The young man sat with a long neck beer
In a finely carved wooden bench
And looked beside him at the young woman
Who stared upward at the pigeons gliding
Way up in the cathedral ceiling
By pictures of veterans returning

Scott Pedersen is a writer based in Wisconsin. His work has appeared in Fiction International, The I-70 Review, […]

“Well, my hobby since I was a kid has been magic, especially sleight of hand. Whenever the collection plate came around, I dropped in a dollar and palmed a ten or twenty.” Whoa! Smiley Mike’s reflection is looking pretty stern. You’re in scoring position, Ken. “Nobody ever noticed. I bought some sweet weed with all that cash.”

KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her […]

Susan Bartolme is a technologist and writer from New York. She currently lives one hour outside of the […]

It was August. Jordan couldn’t remember past summers ever being this hot. It was as if Nature, seeing this new, prolonged hibernation of humans, had chosen to reset the polluted air by exploding it. Jordan lifted the bottom of his shirt and wiped sweat off his forehead. They couldn’t afford an air conditioner for the living room, his mom had said, until the next unemployment check. Summer would be over by then…

Jay Howard is a writer and university instructor living in the Missouri Ozarks. He teaches communication classes including […]

Suppose a world where men inherit mouths
in their thirty-third year.
Maybe they spring up all at once
with hunger and a tongue.

Ken’s four collections of brief fictions and four collections of speculative poetry can be found at most online […]