Issue of December 19, 2022

The Gray Penguin by Bernie Pilarski — Cover story fiction life

Pick up a pen, break out the keyboard, just let it tell you the story...

You Have a Pet What? by Terry Petersen — Fiction humor

Uncle Burt always had a kind heart...

Penguin Provender by Julian O. Long — Poem

"...Otherwise he’d freeze his toes..."

Penguins by Dan Mulhollen — Poem

"...I honestly can't tell you why..."

Pills and penguins by Mihaela Melnic — Poem

"Penguins tiptoe around their neighbors' eggs warily..."

A Child's Christmas Carol by Nolo Segundo — Poem unrhymed

"...Like racehorses at the gate of magic,..."

Poor Penguin by Nolcha Fox — Poem unrhymed

Penguins on the town...

The Host by Stephen Kingsnorth — Poem unrhymed

"...I would meet not wings or haloes, but true messengers of God..."

The last penguin by Nolcha Fox — Poem unrhymed

"...a black tuxedo T-shirt..."

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

Robinson knows he has to narrow the scope of his research of the Geistmann-like criminal...