Issue of April 29, 2019

Not Everyone Can Be Saved by Bonnie Carlson — Cover story fiction life addiction

It should all be as clean as mathematics: numbers, equations, solutions...

When the World Gives you Avocados ... by Bernie Pilarski — Food avocados

Time to use up the last of the winter fruit harvest...

Day's Inn by Wayne F. Burke — Poem unrhymed

"...is whatever he's got creeping underneath my door?.."

Facts and Figures Don't Lie by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"...they will revive THEIR nation..."

Jacko by Lynn White — Poem unrhymed

"I saw him flapping around in the grass..."

Lost in Its Warmth by Daniel Ajayi — Poem unrhymed

"...In such havoc, trying to gather the little happiness..."

Poor Strung-out Christ by Mike Zone — Poem unrhymed

"...that's acceptance rejecting cynicism..."

The Coast of Time by Hongri Yuan — Poem unrhymed

"...outside the garden of gods Is the hometown of thy soul..."

The craft of writing empathy into action by Abigail George — Poem unrhymed

"...Yes, the ocean calls to me like a lover..."