Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
August 24, 2026
Some Nasty Thoughts
Edward Michael Supranowicz -- "Everyone has them, so it is good to think of them as being akin to bowel movements, and if you get constipated take a mental laxative."

art * ...to article.

Humanity
Jenni Bee -- We've got just this one world to live upon...

comic * ...to article.

Mr. Brunelle Explains It All
Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr. -- Maybe if it was from the top of the hierarchy on down...

comic * ...to article.

We Bury the Landscape, by Kristine Ong Muslim: Book Review
April Mae M. Berza -- "A Surreal Atlas of Memory, Art, and the Human Imagination"

book review * ...to article.

Start From the Depths of the Dark
Yucheng Tao -- "...i see Ginsberg napping by the roadside..."

poem unrhymed * ...to article.

A Life Mediocre
Supatra Sen -- "...in my solitude lies my peace..."

poem unrhymed * ...to article.

Fly Your Flair
Ndaba Sibanda -- "...Where do birds master the art of flight?..."

poem unrhymed * ...to article.

You Just Know
Don Edwards -- "...I gave him a twenty and it threw me into life..."

poem unrhymed * ...to article.

Letter To A Poet In Gaza
Abigail George -- "There is one moon..."

poem unrhymed * ...to article.

Community Service
Scott C. Holstad -- "...Nearly broke me..."

poem unrhymed * ...to article.

Accident Allison
Eric Robert Nolan -- "...dancing with an armadillo?..."

poem * ...to article.

Too Human
Matias Travieso-Diaz -- Perhaps it is time to start practicing civility with our appliances, before we forget how to be civil. Oh, wait, we've already forgotten, haven't we? A companion story to "Brain Games."

speculative fiction * ...to article.

Devil and the Blue Ghosts
Daryl Rothman -- From childhood I kindled three dreams: to one day become a father, a writer, and a baseball player. Two of three ain't bad. (I shall neither confirm nor deny holding out deluded hope for the third.)

fiction life * ...to article.

Death in Retirement
Gerald Michael Guglielmo -- Gerald Michael Guglielmo was born in Chicago and spent his youth in the northwest suburbs. Although always interested in creative expression, his interest in creative writing did not emerge until 2017. He currently resides in Geneva and still walks on the edge of curbs sometimes because he never really grew up.

cover story fiction death * ...to article.

Through the Window
Tristen Eason -- And who's to know the danger there?

fiction horror * ...to article.