Pia Thrasher is the winner of our Cover Art Contest with her artwork, “Surrender.”
- Our debut issue is here. Get your copy here. Fiction, poetry, memoir, interviews, and art, the first collection we believe will be worthy of the top shelf.
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In Conversation: K.M. Weiland. We talk craft and story with the award-winning author of Structuring Your Novel and Creating Character Arcs, in an exclusive interview coming in the debut issue.
On the Cover: Pia Thrasher. The winner of our cover art contest on the making of "Surrender" and the meaning behind it, in an exclusive interview coming in the debut issue.
Artist Spotlight: Tamara Williams. A British painter of dream-like, semi-abstract landscapes, recently shown at the 2025 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. A closer look at the work, and the memory and feeling behind it, in the debut issue.
In This Issue
Fiction
Aubrey Green, “The Lighthouse”
Laura Lowe-Mitranu, “The Dance She Didn’t Join”
Brooke JohnPier, “Therapy”
Robert Dosdourian, “Incident at The Green Flagon Dragon Tavern”
Don J. Rath, “In Her Honor”
Andrew Bergeron, “Virginia”
Huina Zheng, “Small Talk”
Poetry
- Christine Jackson — “House by the Marsh”
- William Doreski — “Satan’s Funeral”
- Anne Hendricks — “The Moons of 2025: A Poetic Cycle”
- Bruce McRae — “Ode to a Typewriter”
- Duane Anderson — “Waiting Their Time”
- Michael Frachioni — “Ref”
- Lucy Ernst — “Junebugs”
- Barbara A Meier — “The Crow at Petroglyph Point” and “Ferdinand Fisher’s Pasture”
- Ubongabasi Iyanam — “Luminescence”
- Gregory Ramírez — “Warmth in Winter”
- Kenneth Pobo — “A Tanjoh Dahlia Blossom” & “Overcome”
- Corey D. Cook — “Forty-Seven Birthday Candles”
- Ace Boggess — “What Do We Do with It, Once It’s Over?” & “What Was Your Favorite Comic Book as a Kid?”
- Robert Beveridge — “A Very Delicious Onion”
- Jay Goldin — “forbidden gardens”
- KG Newman — “Mud-Tire Endlings,” “Ragnarök at the Vow Renewal,” & “Good Scars”
- Elizabeth Moua — “All the words I want to say to my father”
- Todd C. Truffin — “Ars Somniandi”
- Yuu Ikeda — “Early Summer,” “Summer in Japan,” & “Remainders of The Past”
Memoir
Penny Nolte, “Looking Back”