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If you’d like to come through now.

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by Bernard Pearson.

Like a librarian shooshing the ocean,
It seemed so pointless some how
That we should wish to see her now,
Hair spread out like bracken,
face chiselled, in quietude,
As if for some ceremonial purpose.
And her teeth on a washstand
In a Tupperware container the kind
You might put fish food in.

Inevitable Attraction is a Cliché.

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by Barry Vitcov. Depending upon one’s point of view, our attraction was inevitable. Allow me to explain: I was at rest doing my best to conserve energy before you bumped into me. I swerved one way, you the other. At that point, it was all relative. We arced like independent rainbows seeking treasure beyond measure. […]

The Golden Leaves.

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by Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac.   Life Death Life Truth As we have seen, those words were found inscribed on a bone tablet. While no gold leaf, it has been included for consideration among the few possible remnants of Orphic funeral practices. Many of the gold leaves were found in Crete, but this Orphic […]

Black’s Archipelago.

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by Tom Ball. MRT (mind reading technology) had been forgotten. So too hypnosis. It was everyone man for himself, so the future looked bleak. Without MRT how could we control the planet? But some said we were finally free and life was independent and good. This world, Planet Screw was a far-flung planet many light […]

Sex, Salad, and Psalms.

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by David D. Horowitz. I love and respect my senses. I delight in listening—and resonating—to one of my favorite poems, songs, or symphonies. And touch and sight? Sex! And taste and smell: my favorite veggie lasagna, freshly baked bread, a colorful fresh salad, chilled white wine… I could go on forever! And I love how […]

A Holding Undone.

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by Marissa Bell Toffoli. So, we speak of the past and the passed in whispers for their sake and our own; swing open the hinges of our chests offer flight to memory, aghast, we release these semiprecious stones. We speak well of the passed and the past afraid to let on when we feel pissed, […]

Alternate.

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by JW James. city of birds your open mind pulsing angels in the middle of forgotten avenues flocks of birds flying in spurs pearls raining down the strings of the cello of convalescence when we were confirmed and took saints’ names in that city we were told to choose a martyr our souls winging their […]

Moving Life’s Goalposts: From Living Well to Living Forever.

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by Brian Griffith. According to one version of my family’s mythology, my grandmother believed she was inevitably bound for hell. She was an Irish Catholic girl who ran off and married a Protestant, and she believed this was a mortal sin. She also believed that divorce was a mortal sin, so that left her no […]

Excerpt from “Dog on Fire”.

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by Terese Svoboda. There’s no other depression around like the meteor’s for a hundred miles. Of course you never see any of the actual meteor, what you see is a small crater with meteor rocks all around it, rocks that drive a compass wild. The meteor itself, all dust or pebbles from its splash that […]

Monaghan’s Virtual Bar in the Time of Covid-19.

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by Tom Ball.   March 2020 I said to my lover, Jane, “I will write a novel of our times. I had written a number of sci-fi of flash fiction books, short story books and a few novels and now I am going to write my best novel in the mainstream.” And I said to […]