August 10, 2021 Shaken by Lauren McBride _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Lauren McBride finds inspiration in faith, family, nature, science, and membership in the SFPA. Nominated for the Best of the Net, Rhysling and…
August 10, 2021 mechanics by Jennifer L. Collins mechanics As if you’ve been given a how-to guide, I come apart. My breath lost to your eyes, my hands held at my sides…
August 10, 2021 Broken Whelk by John C. Mannone Broken Whelk There’s always beauty even in broken things. This small whelk once held an ocean in its chambers before that same sea battered…
August 10, 2021 Western Retrospective by Mary Soon Lee Western Retrospective The cowboys and cowgirls gone, the settlers and traders gone, the buffalo gone, the wolves gone, the wagons, horses, railroads, the bellowing…
August 10, 2021 The Dig by Marge Simon The Dig Time flirts like a virgin, her innocence inviolate. There, on that rolling estate, beneath the mounds lies a Viking ship, whale long,…
July 18, 2021 The Awakening by Anna Cates The Awakening Night descends. Shadows flit through the forest. In the middle of a clearing, a campfire crackles and fizzes with sparks. A Nazi,…
July 18, 2021 The Caste-Priests of Jabberology by Andrew Kozma The Caste-Priests of Jabberology Here, they open their mouths, the doors to their temples. What spills out are river-smoothed pebbles on a drumhead. Only…
July 18, 2021 The Rapture by Ken Poyner The Rapture Not as big a thing as I anticipated. For many, it did not go as expected. They would see someone start bodily…
July 18, 2021 9 to 5 by Monica Garcia 9 to 5 I ate an apple fritter once A honeysuckle whisper Glazed each hair within my ear And told me to look from…
June 18, 2021 Love Baby by Anna Mae Perillo Love Baby I was born into sunshine and darkness. I was Daddy’s love baby; Mommy and sister’s hate baby. I know, black and white,…
