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

Issue of October 18, 2021

13 articles in this issue.


Dinosaur Farm by Steve Carr — Cover story speculative fiction

And the memory is still real...

Purple by Isabel Galvan — Poem

"...It was once my favorite...."

Aloneness by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal — Poem unrhymed

"...I rid myself of the noise that clutters the brain..."

Badass by Catherine Arra — Poem unrhymed

Catherine Arra is the author of "Deer Love," "Her Landscape, Poems Based on the Life of Mileva Maric Einstein," "(Women in Parentheses)," "Writing in the Ether," and three chapbooks. Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups.

Bu Is a Psychologist and...Human by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"Bu helps chaps manage their chronic illnesses..."

Deadlier Than Death by Pranab Ghosh — Poem unrhymed

"...Rolling rivers disappear and Turn into infertile deserts..."

End of the World by Julian O. Long — Poem unrhymed

"...What's wrong will never now be right..."

Headline: Washing Machine Eats Socks by Peter A. Witt — Poem unrhymed

"...I know a pair of each was there when start was pressed..."

Johannesburg by Ngwako C. Maifala — Poem unrhymed

"...The so called city of gold..."

Like Alice by Lynn White — Poem unrhymed

"...this rabbit hole world..."

Matchbox College, <i>Madison, Wisconsin, 1974</i> by Richard D. Houff — Poem unrhymed

Richard D. Houff was the former editor of Heeltap Magazine and Pariah Press Books, from 1986 until 2010.

Further into the Darkness 19 by Lydia Manx — Serial fiction horror vampires

A plan has been made, but what of the plans of the attackers?

The Lake Erie Lights 8 by Hawkelson Rainier — Serial fiction speculative

Even on a good day, Chicago traffic is mind-blowing...

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