Issue of February 16, 2026

Keeping Your Head Screwed on Right by Edward Michael Supranowicz — Art

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Lithuanian/Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking.

The Rift by Adam Hrankowski — Cover story speculative fiction

Adam is a somewhat-retired math tutor who is avoiding editing his novel by writing short fiction pieces.

Living in the Dark by Matthew McAyeal — Fiction

A heartbreaking future for a people -- for any people brought up on falsehood and self-aggrandizement.

Slam, Shatter, Scream by Justin Webb — Fiction horror

Justin Webb is a London based author specializing in speculative horror, science fiction and magical realism. Justin takes a postmodernist approach to writing and forever embraces the idiosyncratic.

Sudden Visits by Todd Sullivan — Flash fiction

What sunders, yet brings people together?

Some Lights Beamed As Land Rights Were Granted by Ndaba Sibanda — Poem

"...Indigenous groups have been finally granted land rights..."

Fish Stink by Bruce Morton — Poem unrhymed

"...on the scale of competitive stink..."

Growing Potatoes by Charlotte Cosgrove — Poem unrhymed

"Soil trickles through fingertips..."

In Media Res by Mark J. Mitchell — Poem unrhymed

"Your television lies to you..."

Line Dance in Hard Winters by Jeff Burt — Poem unrhymed

"...faces warmed five degrees by sunshine..."

Solitude by Nisha Raviprasad — Poem unrhymed

"...the wind is only a whisper in my ear..."

Where were you last night? by Frederick Foote — Poem unrhymed

"...I was back in Gaza..."