Issue 13 / Spring 2018 Ella veers and ducks to avoid the thorns but it’s no use: her arms and legs are full of pricks and she is bleeding in at least two spots. The helmet slides down over her left eye, then right, depending on the direction she swerves, but if...
Issue 12 / Winter 2018 There was a hole where Magnifico’s rosebushes had been. He contemplated the void, a large gold coin dancing between the knuckles of his left hand. With his right hand, he removed a rock from heavy, scented paper lying on discarded thorns....
Issue 12 / Winter 2018 Carla’s trying to decide Payday or Milky Way when a stranger comes up and asks if she’s found the Lord. “Why,” says Carla. “Is he missing?” She’s hungry. Not in the mood for dealing with religious fanatics in the Kentucky Welcome Center’s...
Issue 12 / Winter 2018 Stretching out in front of me were seemingly endless rows of wooden fences and walls of stone, brick, and cinder block. I guessed that they were sample sections, each one perhaps ten feet long, so densely packed together that from where I...
Jerzy by Jerome Charyn Jerzy: A Novel Author: Jerome Charyn Bellevue Literary Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781942658146 $16.99 Jerzy: A Novel is the story of post-WWII figure Jerzy Kosinski, whose life was a blend of fact and fiction for decades. Author Jerome Charyn...