July 13, 2026

Claw (Comments below)

Image by Sand Pilarski

Medium: Public domain images and Photoshop

Artist's comments: None

This Week's Press:

The Way Back
By Michael Braswell
~ If we all could give, and we all could receive gracefully, wouldn't it be an incredible world?

Edward Hopper-Like
By Wayne F. Burke
~ "...long purple shadows sink out of sight..."

Oh, Snap!
By Linda Imbler
~ "...a self-proclaimed hotdog of the educated..."

For the first Time
By Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
~ "...I wait for your reaction..."

In No Man's Land
By Fabrice Poussin
~ "...A dream and the burden of a frightening morrow..."

Big and Beautiful
By Kofi Akan Brown
~ Kofi Akan Brown is a PhD student at the University of Glasgow and has been published in Zoetic Press, Freedom Fiction Journal, Antimatter Dreams, and more. He publishes science fiction and horror stories.

Faces
By Srinjaya Lahiri
~ I live in Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal in India. What I have seen so far is that my natural propensity to write mostly stems from an urge to paint vivid pictures of my personal experiences or things that I see around me."

If There Is Hunger, There Is God
By Dharmpal Mahendra Jain
~ "...Hunger has no age..."

Storm in a Summer Evening
By Snehaprava Das
~ Snehaprava Das, Prof. of English is a writer and translator from Bhubaneswar, (Odisha) India with three collection of stories, six of poems, and thirteen texts of translation of Odia texts in English.

Beaches
By Harvey Silverman
~ The rhythm of the water, the sound of the surf...

Do You Have Cooks or Crooks Out There?
By Ndaba Sibanda
~ "...crooks are in the habit and business of nourishing, serving and spoiling themselves..."

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
By April Mae M. Berza
~ Berza examines a movie about a culinary icon.

The Talking Mirror: a review of The Silent Conversation, by Bruce Bond
By Peter Mladinic
~ A review of Bruce Bond's poetry collection.