Nancy Machlis Rechtman has had poetry published in Literary Yard, Paper Dragon, Page & Spine, and Anti-Heroin Chic, and […]

When he finished his sandwich, he took a cigarette out of the nearly empty box on his nightstand and lit it. He started wheezing as soon as he took the first puff, and it took awhile until he was able to stop coughing. When he looked up, he could have sworn that the spider was watching him again.

William Welch lives in Utica, NY where he works as a registered nurse and is editor of Doubly […]

The sun pretends it doesn’t know where it’s going /each night. Its boat just follows the ocean currents,/like blood flowing from an open wound.

Adam Matson is the author of two collections of short fiction, Sometimes Things Go Horribly Wrong, and Watch […]

Randy tried to push Freddie’s body off his lap, but the dead corpse was stiff with rigor mortis. Randy still could not believe a kid had died at school. Nobody was supposed to die at school. They all wanted their teachers to die. They wanted Mr. Joiner to die. But not each other.

Frank William Finney is a New England poet and former lecturer who taught at Thammasat University in Thailand […]

I made you nothing for dinner tonight,/though the fridge was full/and I had the time

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