Issue of December 12, 2022

To Climb a Rock by Jim Bates — Cover story fiction life

Unsolicited Advice by Peter Barbour — Fiction

Is it really worth having to learn the hard way?

What's Your Infant Return Policy? by Victoria Lorrekovich-Miller — Fiction humor

Sleeping like a baby? Who are you kidding?

Ballads of Blond Elvis by John Haymaker — Fiction life

A writer and programmer, John Haymaker currently writes as an American expat in Portugal.

Souvenir by Hansa Deep — Fiction life

Ph. D. in Hindi, Hansa teaches the language at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. She is a storyteller and has contributed five collections of short fiction and four novels in Hindi. Her works have appeared in prestigious Hindi journals across the world.

A Poet's Prophecy Is Potent by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"A poet's vision transcends boundaries ..."

Belief by Dessy Tsvetkova — Poem unrhymed

"...all the distance will disappear..."

La vita è bella by Bozhidar Pangelov — Poem unrhymed

"...Out of this word was born time..."

One of Us by Ian Mullins — Poem unrhymed

"...we edge forward into half-imagined spaces..."

Plunge by Pranab Ghosh — Poem unrhymed

"...Agonized heart sings The song of life..."

Geistmann Redux: John Robinson Investigates, Chapter Six by Ron Singer — Serial fiction

Robinson has to rely on the experts -- at least for now. Geistmann could probably have helped them out, but Robinson made sure that would never happen...

forgotten by Andrea Damic — Visual art

Things left behind...