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Kids Come First: New Flash Fiction by Angela L. Lindseth

Kids Come First: New Flash Fiction by Angela L. Lindseth

Kids Come First by ANGELA L. LINDSETH I identified seven individual forms. They used my uterus for a playground; my own miniature rugby team kicking the shit out of my insides. They were the size of ping-pongs when I first noticed them, when they first became active. Within a week I had plums. I wondered how thin my skin would stretch before it popped open like an overblown balloon. I don’t know…

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Reversing Falls: New Poetry by Daniel Hales

Reversing Falls: New Poetry by Daniel Hales

Reversing Falls by DANIEL HALES -For John Williams 1. A bird sings its one note on a small island. Calm, steady insect call. Then a second bird, similar pitch, but more…

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Like Vultures: New Poetry by Tempest Brew

Like Vultures: New Poetry by Tempest Brew

Like Vultures by TEMPEST BREW   upon the moving, they gather and caw waiting to collect their due of corpse and left over artifacts

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Smoke: New Flash Fiction by Jacob Cordas

Smoke: New Flash Fiction by Jacob Cordas

Smoke by JACOB CORDAS The girls in the first circle slapped each other’s cunts. The six foot five comedian had lifted the four foot eleven woman against the wall. They kissed. They simulated sex. In the second circle everyone danced. Some danced with each other.  A woman kept walking back forth. The general manager who wasn’t also a bartender sat outside next to an unlit fire. A couple with…

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Not a Through Street: New Poetry by Daniel Hales

Not a Through Street: New Poetry by Daniel Hales

Not a Through Street by DANIEL HALES   -coda for Mutt’s Lament   Compose in frequencies only dogs  can hear Take a canine leap of thinnest listen and believe they’re there

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Supernova: New Flash Fiction by Angela L. Lindseth

Supernova: New Flash Fiction by Angela L. Lindseth

Supernova By ANGELA L. LINDSETH Our days are numbered. The fireball in the sky will make sure of that. It’s too bright to look at, but I stole a peek through my fingers. The glowing sphere is larger than the sun; yet it’s light years away. Keplar’s Supernova, in 1604, was the last time something like this was recorded. It was 20,000 light years away and visible in the daytime for three weeks.…

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Never Ending: New Poetry by Tempest Brew

Never Ending: New Poetry by Tempest Brew

Never Ending by TEMPEST BREW   used to be, there was a fresh supply of butter and canned tomatoes, grape jelly made in the too hot kitchen, but now the dawn has come and the pantry’s empty and so am I

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Melting: New Flash Fiction by Angela L. Lindseth

Melting: New Flash Fiction by Angela L. Lindseth

Melting By ANGELA L. LINDSETH It whispers up my leg as I pass over the heater vent, the tickle of its fingers like feathers on my skin. Why did I have the heat on this late in the summer? The ting, ting, ting of the furnace echoes from the hallway closet and I smell the musty, singed odor you get when you turn it on for the first time in the Fall. I swear I shut the gas off because even the…

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Molars: New Poetry by Neil Anderson

Molars: New Poetry by Neil Anderson

Molars by NEIL ANDERSON As they yank out my molars, I plan a weekend of Vicodin and Depardieu. Gerard playing Rodin: he shakes dirt from a head of lettuce. I think of my molars, their bloody roots, I seem to remember their sound as they dropped onto the steel tray, and I think about the man whose molar grew sideways, into his nostril somehow. And I wonder about Rodin’s breath, about nineteenth…

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Know Better: New Poetry by Russ Cope Know Better by RUSS COPE   Tsk, tsk, a voice in my mind tells me, you know better.

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Know Better: New Poetry by Russ Cope

Know Better: New Poetry by Russ Cope

Know Better by RUSS COPE   Tsk, tsk, a voice in my mind tells me, you know better. You need to stop, you shouldn’t go there, stop clicking that. I know better, I know, but just can’t seem to beat the same old habits.

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Torturama: New Flash Fiction by T.C. Porter

Torturama: New Flash Fiction by T.C. Porter

Introducing: Original art by Kyle Hemmings Torturama by T.C. PORTER At his request, please refer to the filmmaker as artist. His last production, Torturama, garners four hundred sixty-six views on YouTube and goes ignored by indie festivals. Running time: twenty-seven hours, fourteen minutes, forty-two seconds. “You might consider going short,” says his buddy, a film editor whose credits include…

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Baked Alaska: New Memoir by Catfish McDaris

Baked Alaska: New Memoir by Catfish McDaris

Baked Alaska by CATFISH McDARIS The first time I saw Jeffrey Dahmer, was while reading on South Second in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at an art gallery parking lot right across from the Club 219 Bar and the Ball Club. Dahmer picked up many of his victims in that neighborhood of gay bars and taverns by drugging them and dragging them home. After murdering them, he would saw and slice them up and freeze…

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To Look Back: New Poetry by Tempest Brew

To Look Back: New Poetry by Tempest Brew

To Look Back by TEMPEST BREW   someone should have warned her if she looked back she would turn to salt, someone should have said if you keep looking back, he will bruise you again, someone should have said it and I refuse to believe she just did not listen

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