Issue of March 27, 2023 : Piker Press

The Button Girl by Christopher Henckel — Cover story speculative fiction

"Galactic Roads, Take Me Home." Christopher Henckel is a writer of science fiction and fantasy with a healthy dose of Appalachian mischief.

I Do Not Like Going There by Harvey Silverman — Essay memoir

The gulf stretches wider all the time, but we keep hoping for another glimpse of what was once there...

Icarus Reborn by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury — Fiction

Dangerous, perhaps, but the reaching is irresistble...

Against Melancholy by Julian O. Long — Poem unrhymed

"...sitting on someone’s porch at night eating ice cream..."

Answering Unuttered Questions by George Gad Economou — Poem unrhymed

"... a cold beer is the answer to many questions torturing us daily..."

Appointment by Stephen Kingsnorth — Poem unrhymed

"...the major tear-off bit attached, doctor’s scribble, notorious..."

Choice and Regret by Harshit Sahu — Poem unrhymed

"...Will all that sweat be rendered futile..."

Liquid Gold by Gopal Lahiri — Poem unrhymed

"...a marriage of rock and fluid..."

N.C. (1926-68) by Wayne F. Burke — Poem unrhymed

"...death came floundering down the line..."

That empty space on the verandah by Nishi Pulugurtha — Poem unrhymed

"...to just sit and watch The little things that went on Or didn’t..."

"This poem explores a writer’s ways of reinvention and rejuvenation."

Wasteland dispatches by Mike Zone — Poem unrhymed

"...electromagnetic currents coursing through long distance keystrokes ..."