Jonathan Singer lives in the San Diego, California area, where he works as a trial lawyer at an […]

It’s a new world out there, the email read, and the paper was determined to do its part to help shape it.  Out were clues reliant on knowledge of the Roman Empire or movies from before 1975.  In were things like present-day commercial jingles and streaming services.  More sports, less literature.

Kevin Finnerty earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.  His  stories have appeared in Eclectica […]

A year later, we married.  A couple more passed before we decided we wanted to have a child.  Because we were unable to have one, she came to hate me.  Maybe it was more than that.  What she said was, “I hate you…”

Mark Belair’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Alabama Literary Review, Harvard Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. […]

A playground/in hard rain stands/deserted, swings still, slides/beaded and puddled, heavy drops/jeweling the jungle gym/while trembling

A native Texan and longtime Houstonian,  Walter Heineman has been writing poetry since his teens. His interests are […]

here in the lowland vines and tall grasses/there are plenty of fears/but i can live with that/because i get to live with hope/because hope does not exist in paradise…

Bill Wolak has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis […]