Tag: literary magazine
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Letter From the Editor I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the writers and artists who were willing to take the chance on a brand new project. It’s hard to put into words just how much it means to me that I can present everyone with a first issue that features work of this quality. Putting…
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The people of the village needed ample oil for the festival. The paper lanterns needed lighting, and they needed to stay lit through the month. The sturdy, slick paper had been cut into all manner of shapes—birds, flowers, fruits, fish—and came in all manner of hues—vermillion, dandelion, cyan, crimson, tangerine—and they would lend the town…
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Lydia Renfro holds an MFA from Adelphi University and is the recipient of the Donald Everett Axinn Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Okie Bookcast, Litro US, Red Fern Review, Level Land: Poems For and About the I35 Corridor, Siblini Journal, Miletus International Literature Magazine, and others. Raised on the Great Plains of…
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My father always said I had witches’ eyes. “Fickle green and full of secrets,” he would hiss right before he slapped my face. His hard heart cracks one early morning at the bakery. He falls into the oven, and when they find him, his body is charred and smouldering. The village only mourns the ruined…
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Artist Statement Here is a watercolor painting I made. I hope you like it. Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois. Take me back to Issue 1!
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Richard Collins taught at universities in the U.S., Wales, Romania, and Bulgaria. His books include No Fear Zen (Hohm Press, 2015), In Search of the Hermaphrodite: A Memoir (Tough Poets Press, 2024), and two forthcoming poetry collections: Stone Nest and Cartoons for the Chaos (both by Shanti Arts). Since 2016 he has been abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple and now resides…
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Stephen Mead is the resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations and allies predominantly before Stonewall. He is a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art. Occasionally he even got paid of this. Currently he is trying to sell his 40-year…
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Angela Tang is a writer based in Fairfax, VA. Her writing has appeared in the Wicked Shadow Press and in a short story anthology, “Period Pieces.” She is a first year MFA student at George Mason University. Her Instagram handle is @tangelaaang. Take me back to Issue 1!
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Yáng Wǎn (c. 1602—1644) was one of the famous courtesans of the Qinhuai pleasure district in Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty. She was celebrated for her poetry, lyrics, and calligraphy, and interacted with many other literary and intellectual luminaries of the period. She was murdered by bandits during the social unrest at the collapse…
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STEP ONE read the text, then read it again. feel your stomach drop, the trickle of summer sweat dripping down your spine, the low pulse of your childself’s vigilance accelerating from a whisper to a roar. not to open old shit but… old shit. is that what he is? a pollutant buried eight years deep,…
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