Issue of April 29, 2024

Face Off by Jim Bates — Cover story fiction life

Cosmic Interference by A. L. F. Fagan — Flash fiction

Now, then, in times to come...never changes.

Avocado Adirondack by Sterling Warner — Poem unrhymed

"...faces of my youth flash by me..."

Bananas, Lemons, and Ice Cream by Peter A. Witt — Poem unrhymed

"...perhaps it will come to me in a midnight dream..."

Beyond by Gopal Lahiri — Poem unrhymed

"...nobody knows what will happen next..."

Early Appointment Please by Ian Mullins — Poem unrhymed

"...for some, fighting to the bitter end comes with the heredity..."

Ice Flow by Marjorie Pezzoli — Poem unrhymed

"...word by word bite my way back..."

In Memoriam 6 by Pranab Ghosh — Poem unrhymed

"...No memories, scars left…"

Inside Your Window by Stephen Jarrell Williams — Poem unrhymed

"...you wait for me to change..."

Intoxicated Abyss by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal — Poem unrhymed

"...as if the abyss was here only for me..."

The Bison of Santa Catalina Island by Barbara A. Meier — Poem unrhymed

"...a fighter, haunting the Palazzo Vecchio..."

The Rose by Grant Shimmin — Poem unrhymed

"...all who took this path would too be helplessly entranced..."

ZiG, What You Won't RiG by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem unrhymed

"You land on the backdrop of mad money laundering..."