Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Issue of February 27, 2006

6 articles in this issue.


Fever Dreams 081 by Sand Pilarski — Comics

The futility of gang warfare.

Lichloved 18 by Alexandra Queen — Dark humor, fantasy

A brief history lesson while the author of the strip enjoys her vacation.

Night Time 29 by Lydia Manx — Horror fiction mature content

Art Ruby and his station wagon arrive just in time to solve the transportation crisis. Art has hit on Gwendolynn every month over the course of the past year, though -- will he notice Lynn's new secret, or is he too busy trying to hide his own to notice her transformation?

Oort Cloud Oddities: Sharkey the Impaler by Alexandra Queen — Humor politics

Minnesota's gubernatorial elections first brought us Jesse Ventura. This year, they bring us candidate Jonathon Sharkey, self-proclaimed vampire. That's wrong. Wrong and stupid. Not that he's running, but that a delusional wacko has a better grip on some of the concepts involved than many mainstream politicians, educators and rights activists.

Peek of the Week 031 by Alexandra Queen — Photo art

A mountain lion watches small children raptly at Micke Grove Zoo, California.

Eternity by Cheryl Haimann — Poem unrhymed

A story in ten lines, written with the help of the Magnetic Poetry generator (Rimbaud edition) at http://www.languageisavirus.com/magneticpoetry/rimbaud.html

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