Virginia Aronson is the author of many published books, both nonfiction and fiction. Her poems have appeared in […]

The moon goes up/the moon goes down/and still she’s saying oh/mother, the world,/it’s so rotten, let’s die/together.

Now it is here!
Explosive Spring, with a sustained burst of energy that has been simmering all year.
But wait!

Marco Etheridge lives and writes in Vienna, Austria. His short fiction has been featured in many reviews and […]

“The Devil don’t mark on the outside, Wade. He leaves his sign deep inside. It’s the church that makes a show of outwardness. Eat your groats now, like a good Lad.”

Ocelot Lang was born and raised in San Francisco and has lived in Los Angeles, Bologna, Washington, D.C., […]

I looked at my friend. I thought, how wretched a life, to have never met the god of in-between things!

Timothy Robbins has been teaching English as a Second Language for 30 years. He has been a regular […]

Just once I want blood to flood/his cheeks — the Red Drake,/the Communist Flag, the/Land of the Rising Sun/rising to his surface like/fish in a dynamited lake. 

Maggie Herlocker earned her fiction MFA at the University of New Orleans’ Creative Writing Workshop. Her short fiction […]