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Category: Summer2021

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,…

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