Issue of February 5, 2018

Escape from Reality by Kim Burkhalter — Cover story fiction fantasy

Kim Burkhalter has lived in Wisconsin for most of his life. Most of his writing has been in a high school and a college creative writing magazine. He once got an award at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, WI for a story called "White Dragon." He has also finished a novel, "The Dream Machine."

Blue Horizons by Gabriella Garofalo — Poem unrhymed

The second poem in the Blue Horizons trilogy.

Exegesis by Ken Allan Dronsfield — Poem unrhymed

"...Waiting for a springtime kiss..."

I Met a Lonely Woman by Eddie Awusi — Poem unrhymed

"...Half medieval, half stone age..."

Man with No Name by Jake Cosmos Aller — Poem unrhymed

"...Floating around the edge of time Thinking of how to be..."

Me, Myself, and Solitaire by Ann Christine Tabaka — Poem unrhymed

"...I catch myself cheating..."

Of Sycophantic Peacemakers by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"...Of pretending, pushing and duping..."

After Life 15 by Sand Pilarski — Serial fiction death

Finding Matt drunk with a loaded gun by his bed is not going to make Roj any more sympathetic to the man who wants him dead...