Summer 2024

On the sixth glad day they longed for the beggar who had no hands. No sooner had they expressed their wish than he appeared, saying “Here I am!” just as…

Tarot Readings Daily They’re reading Tarot cards right now,in the little pink house with the sign in the yard.Shadows spider across still-green lawnwhose fate, so far, defies the frosts. Someone…

The official categorization of this magazine is “Science Fiction and Fantasy,” but that’s just a work-around. What really interests us is what the Surrealists called le merveilleux.  In Breton’s words,…

                   1. I am not a conjureman, calling the dead back to the land of the living. Nonetheless, I am here, finally, to perform the graveside rite so that I can…

There is a train terminal beneath the vast halls and escalator-riddled chambers of the grand hotel. He runs down one last flight of marble steps and hurries onto a train.…

DEATH Jerusalem dances on living bodies,on dead bodies, on flesh, on stone—she doesn’t notice, she is not looking down.“You love death more than me,” God accuses her,“but I own death,do…

BI Julia and I were good friends for thirty plus years. I moved to Nevada in 1995, but we spoke on the phone several times a week, she was an…

Well I suppose we should start. Good afternoon everyone. I appreciate you attending the Data Informatics special interest group panel on this, the last day and time slot of our…

Chirpy and synthetic, the gaming sounds from Madina’s tablet burrow into my brain like an annoying earworm.  “Good heavens, Dina, can you lay off the games for a minute?”  Turning…

by Forsythia G-Robin and L. B. Apocalypse I take the same route to work every day: I walk from the west side, Easton Avenue, down the hill past the train…

Allie held the painting at arm’s length and looked for something scary in it. The drying canvas was blood-soaked with all the reds she had squeezed from the tubes now…

Wake The best way to recruit a time traveler is in the zygote. Those recruited later in life will require prosthetics to reach the slipstream. Last night, my father came…

I remember it so sharp, like when a fog clears, the first time Jed Stokes entered our classroom. The teacher was giving some lesson on poetry:—‘What does Moore mean by…

All I Could Muster Outside of the everything,skeletons and puddles. The Bones and the Bare Most statues look likethey ought to be writhing. Thickness Speech goeswhere meaning ought to. Doors…

Julia Vinograd, The Book of Jerusalem, Zeitgeist Press 2024 Julia Vinograd, poetic portraitist of Berkeley street life from the sixties on, worked throughout her life on a cycle of poems,…