Summer 2023
Artuan de Lierrée
The original French of the interview follows the English translation. See de Lierrée’s YouTube and Bandcamp pages to hear his music. L’original français de l’interview suit la traduction anglaise. Voir…
The Imaginary Friends Come Home for a Funeral
The sky is too bright for late November. The glare of the sun is garish, almost enough to sear one’s skin. A dark spot moves along the ground, fast, and…
2 Poems: Barbara Holland
Huldra She is Swedish, and one of those,you know. Big. Green eyes and red hair,all clinging velvet and ropesof beads in the front, with coldand cleanly chiseled features.Real Nordic beautywith…
The Bleeding Summer of Love
It began as a clear bright line in the sky. They could see it from the station wagon as they drove up the long, pine-bordered highway that led through the…
Anna Margolin: Poems from “Lower East Suicide”
translated from the Yiddish by Mildred Faintly A Veil Sometimes, it’s like I’m wearing a veil,I’m here and not here,veiled off and veiled in,and my steps synchronize with yours,invisible passers-by.…
Ziggurat Prison Ministry
The Dire Rhymes of Th. Metzger Silent Night Silent night, holy nightOuter Space Monkeys eatingChristmas dinner at WoolworthsRound the table they got the little black bees a-buzzin’Round the table they…
Damp Squib
If Lilly could change one thing about herself, it would be her salivary glands. A dry tongue, that is what she longs for. Remove the constant swill sloshing around her…
Poems from Else Lasker-Schüler’s “Styx”
The First of All Springtimes The serpent hung from her hips like a belt,its head stared up at me, a smug buckle.Her hat had, as an accent,not a bird-of-paradise featherbut…
Portalage
Derek Owens’ work in fiction has frequently graced our pages; his varied interests and engagements may be experienced at www.derekowens.net. From this wunderkammer of fantastic art and and artistic prose,…
Gag
Despite its proximity, I hadn’t been to Manhattan’s venerable Russian and Turkish Baths in a while. I wasn’t quite old enough to be a regular, but my back had seized…
Roadkill Ethics
Herbert Ewing was gleefully observing the various drones flying about working his farmland — planting, seeding, applying agricultural sprays, irrigating, monitoring field conditions and plant health — when his “man,”…
The Hypmogoogoopizin’ Man: His Legend
Anciently, when God did ordain to claim this drear and waste domainHim did it please to bid his saintsagainst all pleading abject ‘plaintsto sojourn here ‘cross cruel seato raise The…
The Seven Beggars: The Land of Wealth
A Jewish wedding is celebrated for seven days. On the second of these, the bride and groom recalled the second beggar who had cheered them in the forest and given…
