Courage by Mary Pacifico Curtis
Courage This world holds both poison and medicine – two leaves that look the same – the shiny one makes quinine and the other kills. Our guide picks up two…
Poetry
The Old Train by Joseph J. Kozma
The Old Train The train took off With the squeaks of 100% superheated rust. Then it jerked as if in the delivery room following the sounds of push. The caboose…
Poetry
Nez Perce Creek by Cynthia Hilts
Nez Perce Creek Three great blue herons Share a patch of clover by the stream Four circling ospreys Childish peeps and fleet shadows Seventeen burning sienna dragonflies Mate, divebomb, clatter…
Micro- Flash Fiction
The Ransom by Bruce Levine
Flash Fiction! The Ransom It was only a matter of minutes. We had a short break, so I laid it across a couple of chairs while I went to the…
Fiction
The Costa Rican Dagger by Clark Zlotchew
write this report—some will no doubt call it a confession—as I sit in this cell awaiting my fate. I put this on paper so that people—including my wife—will understand my…