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Fall 2020 Issue

    Flash Fiction

o  Aliens by James Bates

o  The Story Therapist by Peter Anthony Murphy

o  Alone by Don Tassone

o  Crazy Happy by Tavi Black

o  Cogs and Gears by Laura Engler

o  Mother by Rachel Oblak

o  Wedding Prep or, The Funhouse by Nina Sharzov-Zabrun

o  Go to Hell by Charles Rammelkamp

o Patron Saints  by Alexander Joseph

o  Iris by Martin Dodd

 

       Prose Poetry

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o  Late Hour by John McKernan

o  GK by John McKernan

o  Never Undertaken by Nigel Ford

                     

  

 

 Summer 2020 Issue 

   

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                o  The End of the World As We Knew It, by David Adès

                o  Emil's Magic, by Jim Bates

                o  Bruiser, by Robert Boucheron

                o  Happy Memories, by John Dennis Clayton

                o  It Was 1951, by Chella Courington

                o  A Special Place In Hell, by Craig Grafton

                o  Waiting Room, by Anita Haas

                o  Two Childhood Friends, by Michael Hogan

                o  Hey Bear, by Kathryn Holzman

                o  Creation: A Flash Epic, by Fred D. White

 

Spring 2020 Issue

 

o  What I Live For, by Robert Boucheron

o  Shooting At Diamonds, by Rebecca Clay Haynes

o  Dewey Lake, by Doug Johnson

o  A Snifter of Absynthe, by Stephen V. Ramey

o  My Maintenance Man, by Carol Sanford

o  Walking Papers, by Daniel VanTassel

o  Crane Collapses, No Fatalities, by Gabriel Schenk                                                            o  God's Dog, by Gale Tanner

o  The Keening of the Ccthull, by David Adès

o  Aunt Gwen Sneaks, by Kenneth Pobo

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Fall 2017

 

FLASH FICTION

o  The Final Watch, by Jonathan Ferrini   

o  The Business of Fellow Travelers, by Paul Handley

o  Mitch, by Charles Hayes

o  Oddities, by Peter Hurtgen Jr.

o  Feedback, by Vincent Mannings

o  Medusa, by Lara Saunders

o  Crane Collapses, No Fatalities, by Gabriel Schenk

o  2012, by Siphokazi Vuso

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​PROSE POETRY

o  Not Goodbye, by Abigail George   

o  A Club, by Lawrence Syldan

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>>Spring 2015 Issue (March 2015)

 

Flash Fiction

 

• The Search for a Silent Star,  by Russ Bickerstaff

 

• Tender Things, by Joe Cavano

 

• What Happened When the Rodeo Was in Town, by AJ Kirby

 

• I Am A Picker, by Jo Macek

 

• Disrespect, by Charles Rammelkamp......Editors' Choice

 

• Lego House, by Vani Rao

 

• Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands, by Phil Temples

 

• The Man on the Train, by Andy Tu

 

Prose Poetry

 

• What We Notice, by Gil Hoy

 

• In The Belly of the Boat, by Angel La Canfora

 

• Hallelujah, by Vani Rao......Editors' Choice

 

• All Too Human, by Lawrence Syldan

 

 

>> Fall 2014 Issue   (October 2014)

 

Flash Fiction

 

• The Keening of the CCthull,  by David Adès

 

• Being There,  by Chella Coutington

 

• The Place Where the Chiefs Meet,  by Frank Diamond

 

• Levin & Kitty, c. 2014, by Lara Dolphin

 

• Forty Years on Earth,  by Mexico Michaels

 

• The Window Where the Trains Came In,  by Janet Irvin

 

• Dewey Lake, by Doug Johnson.......Editors' Choice  & Pushcart Prize nominee

            (Originally published in our Summer 2012 issue.)

 

• The Kiss,  by Nashae Jones.............Editors' Choice & Pushcart Prize nominee

 

• The Basketweaver,  by Mark McKee

 

• A Story About Whales,  by Jef Otte

 

• Stray Cat,  by Charles Rammelkamp............Editors' Choice  (See Charles' They All Lived Happily Ever After, Spring 2013 issue) 

 

• The Story of Losing,  by Sasha Sanchez

 

• Belson, Keelie and The Moon,  by Daniel VanTassel

 

• Full Circle, by Chris Wilkensen
   

 

Prose Poetry

 

• Eight Micro Musings from Marc Carver

        > ONLY IN THE MAKING

        > TALES OF MEN PART 1

        > LOVE AND HATE

        > SCALES

        > SPILT MILK

        > BORN LUCKY

        > MC FUNNY

        > ASBO'TASTIC

 

• Secret Admirer,  by Anton Frost

 

• Fetch,  by Jeffrey Winter................Editors' Choice   

 

      

                                                    >>Winter 2014 Issue   (February 2014)

 

Flash Fiction

 

• Mike Keith, The Window on His World

• Adam Padgett, The Politician

• DJ Swykert, The Age of Faeries

• Gale Tanner, God's Dog...............*Editors' Choice*  (See Gale's "How Mac Got Promoted"              

             in our Winter 2012 Issue.)

• Phil Temples, At Peace

• John Matthew Whalen, Greatest Apes, Part 1

• Laura Wooffitt, Marriage Prospects..............*Editors' Choice*  (See Laura's "Hosea"

               in our Spring 2013 Issue.)
 

 

Prose Poetry

 

• Marc Carver, The Test.............*Editors' Choice*

• Will Dixon, Feathers                                  

• Craig Fishbane, Another Mirror

• Kim Peter Kovac, The Racer's Edge

• Lucinda Olmstead, Lust

• Gerry Sarnat, Freerange

 

 

>>Spring 2013 Issue  (April 2013)

Flash Fiction>>

• Carly Berg, Beanstalk Revised

• Eric Blix, Going Home Via The Internal Combustion Engine

• Henry Brown, Flood Victims – Man and Boy

• Robin Wyatt Dunn, Last Friday

• Joe Giordano, The End of the Italian Bread

• Kevin Hall, In From the Rain.....................*Editors’ Choice*

• Joe Kilgore, The Rangoon Eye

• Stephen Koster, Forgetting the Real Paris 

• Stephen V. Ramey, A Snifter of Absinthe.................*Editors’ Choice*

• Charles Rammelkamp, And They All Lived Happily Ever After.......*Editors' Choice*

• Rob Schultz, Shopper's Pardise

• Phil Temples, Purpose

• Laura Woofitt, Hosea

 

Prose Poetry>>

• Will Dixon, A Course...............*Editors' Choice*                                     

• Alan Reed, Patches of Green

• Olvard Smith, Doom

>>Fall 2012 Issue   (October 2012)

Flash Fiction:     

• Past Matters, by E.A. Aymar

• What I Live For, by Robert Boucheron.........*Editors' Choice*

• Regarding the Privies, by PJ Cox

• The Hole, by Tricia Fields

• On Frying Fish, by George Masters

• The Transit, by Banks Miller

• Ship Sails On, by Valery Petrovskiy

         

Short Stories:    

• Somewhere There's a Pony, by Bernie Hafeli

• How Many Raccoons is a Cat Worth?, by Doug Johnson.......*Ed. Choice*

• Unfortunate Luck, by Lasher Lane

• Counting Cars, by Joplin Rice

• The Awakening, by Hollis Whitlock

         

Prose Poetry:

• Cuba, by Jean-Paul Ferro

• On the Proper Role of Desire, by Craig Fishbane.......*Editors' Choice*

 

 

>>Summer 2012 Issue   (July 2012)

Flash Fiction:

• The Last One, by Randall Brown

• Silversides, by Patrick Forgette........*Editors' Choice*

• Hallsville, by Derek Frazier

• Blame it on the Jeans, by Megan Gregor

• My Maintenance Man, by Carol Sanford

• One's Own Life, by John Williams

 

Short Stories:

• Home Fires Burning, by Edward Ahern

• Morrow, by Chris Deal

• Forever, by Bobby Fox

• Dewey Lake, by Doug Johnson..................*Editors' Choice*

• The Last Few Pages, by Howard Moseley-Chalk

• Three People Dancing, by Peter Volpe

              

Prose Poetry:

• Conversations with Zip, by Will Dixon...........*Editors' Choice* 

 

 

                            >>Spring 2012 Issue   (April 2012)

Flash Fiction:

• Context Driven, by David Atkinson

• Elegy, by Anne Marie DeVito

• His Father's Legacy, by John Dougherty

• Flannel Shirt, by Kristina Estebo

• Unformed, by Phil Temples

 

Short Stories:

• The Perfect Switch, by James Carpenter

• Chief, by Donald Dewey

• The Man Who Prepared Himself for Death, by Allen Kopp

• Fu Manchu, Foo Man Choo, Man Chew Food, by Gregg Sapp.......*Editors' Choice*

• The End of Spring, by Michael Schrimper

• Dance of the Standup Man, by Janet Slike

                        

 Prose Poetry:

• Marie Curie & Arthur Rimbaud: An Imagined Marriage, by Marissa Cohen

• Exercises in Eloquence, by V. Moriarty............*Editors' Choice*

 

 

>>Winter 2012 Issue   (January 2012)

 

Flash Fiction:

• Fast Track, by Patrick Forgette

• Shooting at Diamonds, by Rebecca Clay Haynes.......*Editor' Choice*

• Dorothy, by Julie Morgan King

• Flat Iron Blues, by Arthur McMaster

• Aunt Gwen Sneaks, by Kenneth Pobo

  

Short Stories:

• Calmato, by Donald Dewey

• The Devil’s Cup, by E.G. Fulton..............*A belated Editors' Choice*

• Feast on Flies, by Heidi Kraay

• Red Tiger Walk, by George Eyre Master

• Arachnids, by Michael Onofrey

• How Mac Got Promoted, by Gale Tanner.........*Editors' Choice*

   

Prose Poetry:

• The Man Who Harvests Redeemable Cans, by William Doreski

• On Not Being Able to Dance, by Milton P. Ehrlich, Ph.D.

• Karner Blue Butterfly, by Jamie Taylor

 

 

                          >>Fall 2011 Issue   (October 2011)

                                      (Inaugural Issue)
 

Flash Fiction:

          o  Walking Papers, by Daniel VanTassel

          o  Relations, by V. Moriarty

 

Short Stories:

          o  A Father’s Sins, by Brian Wright

          o  Bonds, by Pierre Bourdin

          o  The Man Who Was Looking Down, by Daniel VanTassel

 

Prose Poetry:

          o  Pentamentality, by Chet Meyer

          o  Quieting the Crickets, by Shelly Sumner