Winter 2016

“That house there is haunted. That door’s a portal to hell. This street holds its secrets very well.”
– Cowboy Junkies, “This Street, That Man, This Life”

F I C T I O N

“Counting Mississippis” by Dora Badger

So many of the things we tell our children are lies.

“Fox Bear Boy” by Dale Carothers

They came up over the rise and saw the cow munching tall field grass. It was unattended, so they decided to have it for lunch.

“Every Useless Parameter” by Darren Goossens

The planet’s whole history might be right here, incised into two hundred stone cubes half buried in the rainforest.

“Point Me at the Sky” by Paul Abbamondi

Back to our tunnel-homes, the veritable labyrinth that twisted and dropped for miles beneath Lisburl, the city that stood still.

“Evil Days and Countless Wonders” by Patricia Russo

And yet, even in evil times, when men scream in agony and women bury their infants, in famine times and flood times, in war times, in all bad times, still the world contains more wonders than any of us know.

P O E T R Y

“The Bone-Joiner” by Sandi Leibowitz

“Not Even Cursed” by Alex Harper

“To Ride the Puca” by Beth Cato

M I S C E L L A N Y

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Illustration: Toe Keen is an amateur artist based in Spain. Lover of wine, women, and song and currently working on a big-ass graphic novel.
Visit his online gallery here.