Issue of April 3, 2023

Le Saxophone Solitaire by Timothy B. Barner — Cover story essay memoir

Finding your way into the future may lead you to foreign places...

Pinecone by Victoria Smee — Fiction crime

Victoria Smee is an outreach worker who writes in her spare time. She has enjoyed writing all her life and has recently started to make more time for her short stories and poetry.

August 27^th at 3:43 pm by Thomas Elson — Flash fiction

"...at this moment, he has readied himself...

Accident by Donna Pucciani — Poem unrhymed

"...a special love for survivors of everyday woe,..."

Forgiveness by Matt Witt — Poem unrhymed

Matt Witt is a writer and photographer in Talent, Oregon. His work may be seen at MattWittPhotography.com.

Life! by Pranab Ghosh — Poem unrhymed

"... pain rises from the core of the heart..."

Loveless by Donna Dallas — Poem unrhymed

"...the world a knot you could never unravel..."

Magic Fingers by John Patrick Robbins — Poem unrhymed

"...fragments in time perfectly in tune..."

Middle School Math Teacher by Robert Ronnow — Poem unrhymed

"...ords and numbers are things no one has ever seen or heard or touched..."

Motivational Thought by Dessy Tsvetkova — Poem unrhymed

"...Let it hug someone somewhere..."

Transitioning Time by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"This poem explores a plea for an energy transition."

Geistmann Redux: John Robinson Investigates, Chapter Twenty-Two by Ron Singer — Serial fiction

Robinson is finding his age -- and his loss of Geistmann -- may be putting him behind the times in terms of espionage...and what now is his role?