Issue of August 13, 2018

About THE ODDS 24 by Bill Harvey — Comic

And he thought, "How handsome he is!"

Hot August (K)Nights by Dan Mulhollen — Cover story short fiction silly

Are you ever ready for something like this?

Darkness at the Break of Day by Sarah Ito — Fiction flash city

An old world, a different world, a new world, the same world...

Marshlands by John Anthony Fingleton — Poem rhymed

"...A ballet of perfection, A last waltz, for a day now done.

I Come a New Specie of Thunder by Eddie Awusi — Poem unrhymed

"...Kaftan white on catalogue of drooling moon..."

In Case You Thought All Was Renewed and Reformist by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"...professing one thing but practicing another..."

Isthmus by Brandon Marlon — Poem unrhymed

"...vagaries and detours, obstacles and false starts..."

The Old Man by Ann Christine Tabaka — Poem unrhymed

"...Embers fading, ashes flying, eyes like a smoke filled room..."

Transformative by Charles Cicirella — Poem unrhymed

"...until all of the diamonds turn back into coal..."

Dark Whispers: Let The New Year Begin by Lydia Manx — Short

Cassandra's New Year Resolution may have been to stir things up by thinning the human herd a little bit, but before she can get on to the real business, there is the small matter of Greg. A vampire can wait a long time to exact revenge.