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

Issue of December 18, 2017

7 articles in this issue.


Christmas on Trash-in-the-Yard Boulevard by Terry Petersen — Cover story short fiction holiday

A feisty woman who doesn't expect much from the holidays is about to be surprised...

Asset by Ryan Quinn Flanagan — Poem unrhymed

"...victory for compression sock gentrification..."

Bone and other stories by Abigail George — Poem unrhymed

"...Fade away to wise-everything..."

Hear What They Won't Tell You by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"It is the wish and prayer of every patriotic African..."

I Have Held Your Face, with a Favoured Bowl by Eddie Awusi — Poem unrhymed

"...You were my life's breath, my annexed light's Indigo beauty..."

US by Frederick Foote — Poem unrhymed

"...a hand at every throat a knife for every back..."

After Life 08 by Sand Pilarski — Serial fiction death

With Garrison's credit card information safely tucked away in the Personnel Department, Roj is ready for wider investigations...

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