Volume 2, Issue No. 1

FLASH FICTION

Chad Haskins
Death Do Us Part

José Enrique Medina
Push

Zuri McWhorter
Bait

Ralph Pennel
Runner Up

Matt Neil Hill
Night Games

Jack Somers
Mary

Angel Filyaw
Wildflower

Linda McMullen
Gretel

Lizzie Groth
Forever

Sugar Lafever
Mother Knows Best

Grace Jenkins
Fear the Light
Memory is a Tricky Thing
This Is How It Ends

Jay Gershwin
Philosopher Sandwich

Aaron Starks
The Selfish Wraith

Charlotte Burnett
How the Story Goes

X. C. Atkins
The World

Michael Blackburn
Gothic

Ashely Adams
We Called It Extinction

Ryan Seagrist
Thumbnails

Maura Yzmore
Family Business

Justin Herrmann
Canal Side

Linda Quinlan
Carol the Cat Killer

 

SHORT STORY

J. J. Fletcher
Fiendish

Michael Washburn
10.12.85

Ginny Fite
Year of the Vampires

Paul Kardos
The Innocent Sink

Philip Berry
Bad Doula

Chris Erickson
Argo and the Far Side of Mars

Paul Smith
This Man is Dead

Konstantin Rega
All Must Die

Madison McLoughlin
The Beast

Sarah Jennings
Resilience

Joshua Ian
Gingerbread

Stephen Hundley
Buddy

Rod Martinez
Where Is It?

Harrison Hurst
Under Dark Eaves

Andrew Weber
Night Life

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Amanda EL
It Can Wait

Andy Betz
Ask the Right Person to Get the Right Answer

A. C. Bohleber
The Cruelty of Plaid Skirts

Brian Vlasak
Doppelgänger

Sean Hogan
Pale Things

 

ESSAY / SHORT CRITICISM

Jeremy Sideris
La Terreur to El Terror: The Mexican Drug War’s Place in the History of the Social Expression of Power

 

POETRY

Donna M. Davis
To Die with Bad Hair
Il Diavolo

Maya Roe
Near Winter’s End

John Casey
Unicorn

Leon Lowder
Politics

Linda Dove
Fear is a Bucket By the Rain Spout
Love Shot (for A)

Greg Schmult
Never-Garden
Pervert
Cough

Taylor Mali
Hidden Keys
Why My Parents Come Back to Life as Bats
Old Foundations
Childless Pantoum
Mercy

John Thomas Wetmore
Babel

Ashley Memory
Orchard #9

Anthony Lawrence
Angel Trumpet
Etymology, A Love Story

Paul Brucker
Ten Minutes and Fourteen Seconds with Edgar Allan Poe

Stephen Ground
Rejoice

Deborah Matusko
Hate’s Richness
Almost
Lies

Robert Crisp
Cold, Dark, and Handsome
Standing Naked in Front of the Train
The Organ Grinder
Offering
Missing

Caleb Scott
Evidences
The Truth

Tama Hazak
A human being isn’t but a handful of soil with spirit inside it

Josh Smith
Say You’ll Haunt Me
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine

J. B. Stone
Before You Pass Judgment on a Production of Swan Lake
When I Die Play the Sounds of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis at My Funeral
The Spirit of Joy

Contributors Issue 2.1

Cover Image: Seigar