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

Issue of June 13, 2016

5 articles in this issue.


Fish Stories by Harvey Silverman — Cover story essay memoir

It was horrible for a child, something a boy would never understand why his family did it. And yet, now that no one does it any more...

Unfit Mother Goose by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed

Nursery rhymes in the hands of new parents can be horrible weapons of brain cell destruction. Truly it is Nature's plan that little critters aren't born able to understand what their parents are singing.

One of Those Women by Dan Mulhollen — Poem unrhymed

"...something you want to make real..."

Going Hungry 56 by Sand Pilarski — Serial fiction family money food

Philli is up to something, but she's not telling what it is. Steve is looking awfully good, but is that really the right thing for Gloria to see? And Will -- he's happy...is younger brother somehow leading the way?

All-Nighter 19 by Lydia Manx — Serial fiction horror

Sammy has blown the head off the zombie that used to be his cousin Leon, and Lindy has smiled her way out of an encounter with the murderous vigilantes. Surely their road is all downhill from here...

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