Issue of March 21, 2022

Manifesto of the Inoculationist Liberation Front by Ralph Benton — Cover story speculative fiction humor

Ralph Benton lives under the blue skies of Florida's Gulf coast, where the weirdness oozes from the ground like a tar spring. So many stories, so many worlds.

That Day's General Knowledge Lesson by Ndaba Sibanda — Fiction humor

Spring makes some writers silly...

Three Women by Beate Sigriddaughter — Fiction life

And who will judge?

A Brand New Story! by Madhu Gangopadhyay — Poem unrhymed

"...Devastatingly uprooted The trees of airy-fairy amour..."

Apocalypse Now by Frankie Laufer — Poem unrhymed

"... In the mind a painting appears, dark, mysterious..."

Crushed Times! by Pranab Ghosh — Poem unrhymed

"...We look ahead At the emptiness..."

Death Was Crawling by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal — Poem unrhymed

"...Its laughter was sharp and loud...."

Emperor Norton's Boozeland by William Taylor, Jr. — Poem unrhymed

"...crazy and dying and grasping at the shiny bits...."

Silverback by Julian O. Long — Poem unrhymed

"...we'll cleverly hide away in swamps..."

the grace of the fall by Robin Wyatt Dunn — Poem unrhymed

"...Wrath and mead Hammocked back against the grain summer..."