Issue of July 17, 2017

Close Your Eyes and I'll Kiss You by Ralph Bland — Cover story fiction youth

Travel back in time fifty years and so much is different -- and so much the same...

What Do I Know 2 by Bernie Pilarski — Essay life

By what do you know whether or not you're successful?

Day Time Bitch & Night Time Whore by Michael Lee Johnson — Poem unrhymed

"...Coon hunting, fox hunting daddy, I'm the storyteller..."

Dream Jobs Keep Dreaming by Ryan Quinn Flanagan — Poem unrhymed

"...And if someone was foolish enough to pay me..."

The most beautiful eye in the world is the third eye by Abigail George — Poem unrhymed

"...Trees are candles..."

Out with the Trash 25 by Sand Pilarski — Serial fiction life relationships

Mark is still keeping his real purpose of his trip to Michigan secret, and Emily follows suit by keeping secret all that she has found out about him. Life has changed...

The Scholarship Girl 10 by Abigail George — Serial fiction life relationships writing

"... but I do know this: African writers write in blood..."