Volume 3, Issue No. 2

{PHILIA / PHOBIA}

 

Flash Fiction

Heather Meeks
Above Your Bed

Calum Armitage
Late Night Drive

Russell Jaffe
The Heart of the Forest

Dominic Turnea
Lilac and Gin

Nikki Decker
The Stairs

Taylor Rossics
Bridges

Dennis Spiker
Snips

Cheryl Powell
The Craving

Sofia Martimianakis
Sleep Training is a Nightmare

Anthony McFadden
Simple Question Simple Answer

Thalia Geiger
The Unraveling

Janet Garber
Stranger on the Plane

Matt Poll
Bird-a-thon, 2039 AD
The Busan Drunk Bird Flu

Nicholas Jackson
Call in the Clowns

Dan Sanders
Suet

Nicole E. Beck
Chamber of the Question

Trista Hurley-Waxali
Germs

Richard Karpala
The Divination Game

 

Short Story

Laura Dzubay
Fixation

Larry Glines
Without Cause

Jess Lake
Nachtrabe

H. J. Shaw
An Interview with the Ripper’s Wife

Erica Schaef
The Stained Hatchet

Michele Hromada
Hit Woman

Philip Matthew Wendt
Shady Grove Alumni

Angelo Catalano
The Breadbox

Christopher Farris
Life

Christina Harrington
Bachelor Loop

Amanda McHugh
The Myth of Dryness

Avraham Forrest
It Will Appease Him

David Rhoades
Patchwork

Salvatore Sodano
Vigo’s Shroud

Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Sunta

Helen Marsh
The Limb that Wasn’t Hers

Will Gorham
Kid Menu

Nathan Coley
The Body Artist

Rich Gunnen
Stacking Coasters

Briana Gonzalez
Drain

Jonathan Miller
Lost Faith

David Thorndill
The Execution of Alice Templar

Mary Leoson
The Favor

Conor Kilkelly
The Inn

 

Creative Nonfiction

Cat Olson
Confessions of a Mounted Butterfly

Callan Foster
How to Peel an Orange

 

 

Essay / Criticism

Elizabeth Wadsworth
En Guard! Fencing the Grim Reaper

 

 

Poetry

Jane Yolen
Fear
Speedwell
A Regular Guy
St. Patrick Spins a Tale

Bridget Murphy
Nonfat Dry Milk

Alec Hershman
What We Become
Neighborhood Watch
Vineyard of the Curse

Emily Hockaday
I Throw My Daughter
Nursing My Daughter
The Ghost Flies Low

V. C. McCabe
Prelude to Keening
Entropy
The Nocturnal Dance
Elemental

Natalie Campisi
In 1998, you could practice your French in France

December Lace
The Others
The Masks
God’s Architect

RC deWinter
the embrace
cathouse
A Few of My Not-Favorite Things

E. J. Schoenborn
Catoptrophobia

Dayna Patterson
Ode to Eau de Skunk Wafting Through the Bedroom Window at 2AM
Fanny Brawne’s Last Letter, Unopened, Buried with Keats’s Body in the Cimitero Accatolico, Rome
Your heart wouldn’t end up wrapped in silk like a relic
First Hydrogen Balloon Descends in a Field Outside Paris, August 1783

Max Stephan
Frosted Finger Lichen (dactylina ramulosa)
Confessions of a Destroying Angel
Illustrations in GQ Magazine
Alice Said

Alison Clare
Belly of a Whale

Felicia Chernesky
Invisible Woman Materializes at Monsters Anonymous
Zombie (On Behalf Of)
Swamp Thing

Nina Keen
The Practice of Inheriting Fear
Coffin

James Christy
Ablutophobia

Pamela R. Anderson
Some Things We Say to Children
Heart Breaker
Los invisibles atmos del aire
On the Hunt

Eliot Hudson
Under Flickers
Petrichor

Allison Casey
notes on terms of surrender to the cephalopods
Eclipse

Robin Gow
i’m carving you an ice hotel
I pick small objects from my dog’s mouth
burial for a single branch

Yael Veitz
Chlorophyll

Tonya Eberhard
Eye
Imminent
Ward 12

Patrick Kurth
Phantasia (Baroud)
Melon Collar
Well
Equueleus
Migonette

Alex Aldred
The Old Place
Claustrophobic
The Taste
Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer

Nadia Farjami
photograph
boneless

George Perreault
The Registry

Jessica Sabo
Pickings
How to Silence a Lark

Neha Mulay
A One-Sided Conversation with a Headline

Chad Lutz
Just Past Midnight

Jacob Ramirez
Databending the {American} Barrio

Jenna Russell
More Heat than Light

Bryce Baron
A Transformation

Kimberly BMW Wade
Kosmemophobia

Lindsey Heatherly
Conductor of Vitality
Dry Bones

Julia Horensten
Hashgochah Protis

 

Art

Jada Fabrizio
Inhuman
Facebook Friend
Kaboom
The Heart of a Broken Story
Corpse of Milk
Queen of Hearts

Karyna Aslanova
A Creepy Collection

Guilherme Bergamini
02 Photosensitive Abstractionism
08 Photosensitive Abstractionism

Kamila Krol
Playtime
Pola Memento Mori
First Ink Nightmare
Question
Me and the Devil
Third Ink Nightmare: One-Eyed Jack

J. E. Crum
Return of Her Winter Solstice
Effigy
Poe Tribute

Stephen Ground
It Came from Ottawa

Richard Ramsdell
Portraits 2019

Johnson Bowles
Safe / Unsafe Deceptions
Positive Negative Self Talk

Nam Das
A Thousand Suns
Flora Fauna Marta
Sybilline Song
Astral Ancestral Experience
Non Plus Ultra
Slow Motion Explosion
Camp Fire Flight
Rites of the Hunt
The Peregrine Wind
Embrace of the Serpent

 

Cover Image: k_yu