February 23, 2026

Ledger (Comments below)

Image by Sand Pilarski

Medium: Public domain image and Photoshop

Artist's comments: None

This Week's Press:

Stuck with March
By Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
~ "If only it was July..."

Returning Home to Pittsburgh
By James Croal Jackson
~ "...returned to the elms and eastern hemlocks..."

Bald
By Jerry A. Sierra
~ Writers travel down strange paths at times, to be sure.

Liminal
By Stephen Kingsnorth
~ "...soliloquy as commentary..."

And My Hollow Eyes Closed
By Dan Holt
~ "...trying to find their way..."

Balance the Books
By Mary Jo Rabe
~ There's a payment owed for what you have received...

Finally Seeing the Light
By Taylor Dibbert
~ "...who he's become..."

Number Twenty-Two
By Jim Bates
~ "...He was many things..."

There's Something Mom Isn't Telling Us
By Alistair Blackledge
~ Alistair Blackledge is an emerging horror author based in Michigan. When he’s not reading or writing strange tales, he listens to the whispers of the trees and occasionally, when the fire burns low and the coyote howls die down, a softly seductive voice from the beyond. Can you hear it?

Sui Generis
By Sean MacKendrick
~ As the world changes, populations move. How will they be met?

Rumble in the Jungle
By Scott Waters
~ Scott Waters is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Oakland, California. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

Desert Rain: a review of Shaking Music from the Angry Air by Michael Dwayne Smith.
By Peter Mladinic
~ Peter Mladinic reviews Michael Dwayne Smith's book of poetry, "Shaking Music from the Angry Air."

A Trail of Loot and Soot
By Ndaba Sibanda
~ "...Can crude chaos be noblest?..."