Lizard Boy by Emily Laubham
For hours, Edgar Polrattle, known to fellow classmates and crueler town-folk as the Lizard Boy, wandered down the streets of Yokemile, Florida, shrinking away from the voices in his head.…
Fiction
What the River Claims by Cyn Bermudez
The dead numbered in the hundreds. The current count loomed in red on a large interchangeable sign on the side of the highway: two hundred seventy-five. “Ay nako,” her mom…
Poetry
Prammed by Michael M. Marks
Prammed over the cracks, I was the pride of my neighborhood sidewalk, until the neighbor girl cut my golden curls, which never grew back, and I became a has-been before…
Poetry
Good Christmas Hunting by John Reinhart
shelters steamed with rich meat down pillows and comforters – predator-prey relationship reestablished in the spirit of holiday cheer I want to steal crackers from Safeway all the crackers –…
Poetry
Cemetery by Richard Luftig
The only mourners left; These summer storms Those winter moons. Winds that sand Away the names On tombstones To flatness as if No one ever lived Here to farm the…