Contents | September 2024
"Dutchman's Pipes" by KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg tilts at social ills and encourages personal evolutions via poetry, prose, and visual art. Her images have appeared as interior art in many places, including Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Les Femmes Folles, Mused, Piker Press, Stone Lake Gallery, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, and Yellow Mama and as cover art in many places, including Angime, Black Petals, Five on the Fifth, Impspired [sic], Pithead Chapel, Red Flag Poetry, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, The Broken City, and Torah Tidbits.
Additionally, some of her digital paintings accompany her poetry in Miscellaneous Parlor Tricks (Seashell Books, 2024, Forthcoming), Word Magpie (Audience Askew, 2024), Subrogation (Seashell Books, 2023), and One-Handed Pianist (Hekate Publishing, 2021).
From the Editor
Art
Four Collages by Bill Wolak
Poetry
Bastet by Kathleen Calby
Set by Kathleen Calby
Persephone Rising (Sonnet for Dactylanthus Taylorii) by Megan Cartwright
Eve and the Mosquitos by Carol Casey
Morgan le Fey by Morgan G. Cairns
My Eurydice by Louis Cutrona
We Will Become Mars by A J Dalton
Ghosts of the Greenwood by Sarah Das Gupta
Gods in the Streets by John DeAngelo
Penelope's Fate by John DeAngelo
Early Retirement by Matthew DeLuca
Selene Sings the Phases of the Moon by Alison Hurwitz
Storm-Stolen by Elena Sunyoung Kang
When You Learn to Love by Manoranjan Sahoo, translated by Pitambar Naik
Sylvia Seltoun Breaks Her Silence by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Devil Work by Riley Passmore
A Snippet of Atlas' Endless Musings by Rumi Petersen
Ode to Nyx by Garret Stirland
Ratri and the Grieving Botanist by Jay Sturner
Instructions for the Afterlife by J.E.A. Wallace
Mermaid by Lynn White
Prose
The Boy in the Giant (a Tale of the Woods) by Joseph Carrabis
This is not a love story by Salena Casha
A Mouthful of Prayers by JM Cyrus
Alder-King by Zary Fekete
Reed Planet by Zary Fekete
The Monster Ygraine by G. Gormley
Brothers of Remembrance by D.G. Ironside
The Mermaid by Jack Lennon
Her Night Off by Victoria Male
My Narcissus by Karian Markos
The Snake Charmer’s Wager by Bhavana Pandian
The Face in the Water by Basiliké Pappa
Inkarri by Sandro Francisco Piedrahita
The Stain Set In by Benjamin Samara
We Who Watch the Shore by Maddison Scott
The Secret Passageway by Daniel Edward St-Jean
My Tippet, Only Tulle by Allister Nelson
Wax-Wire Wings by Samantha Rich
Orpheus and Eurydice by D.J. Rozell
Point A to Point B by Laura Shell
After which Sarah was no longer barren by Brendan Todt
Bellerophon and the Golden Bridle by Lisa Voorhees
Eloping to Zhuhai by Yuan Changming