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Anomaly, Part Three by Jennifer Milne

by Jennifer Milne | Sep 2, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read

Anomaly, Part Three By Jennifer Milne ; Read Part One and Part Two of “Anomaly” first. TENThe Present When I got back, I found that my plan had worked exactly as I’d hoped it would. Honestly, my life was absolutely perfect. My Dad was still alive and he...

Orphan City by Bokerah Brumley

by cinderq | Sep 1, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read

Orphan City By Bokerah Brumley ; Maybe the position isn’t as hard as the brochures imply. I press my nose to the backseat glass as my hand drifts over the paper in my pants pocket. Burn out rate could be a problem. The staff might be substandard. My thoughts...

Chamber of Winds by Donald Crankshaw

by Donald Crankshaw | Aug 15, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read

Chamber of Winds By Donald Crankshaw ; In the Chamber of Winds, the secret center of the known world, Raxtus paid too much for an ugly gold statue. He’d had to call in every debt and every favor, and accrue a few of his own, to raise the funds. The black market...

Hiram the Horse Whisperer

by David Churchill Barrows | Aug 11, 2019 | Featured Story, Issue No 5, Nonfiction, Read

Hiram the Horse Whisperer By David Churchill Barrow ; Hiram’s dad, Jesse, had no worries, despite the smirk on the carnival barker’s face. This was a sure bet. Everyone knew these carnival ponies were trained to throw young boys on command, but the locals in the...

The Icon and the Idol The Finale of Sergei Eisenstein

by Michael Toscano | Aug 3, 2019 | Issue No 4, Nonfiction, Read

The Icon and the Idol The Finale of Sergei Eisenstein By Michael Toscano ; Russian memory knows Tsar Ivan IV, first tsar of all the Russias (1530 to 1584), as a dark figure: a man of unnatural lusts, a diseased mind and vampiric tastes for blood. Ivan is known as...

Anomaly, Part Two

by Jennifer Milne | Aug 2, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 4, Read

Anomaly, Part Two By Jennifer Milne ; To read Part One of “Anomaly” first, click here. SIXThe Future It felt like I’d frozen. Then like I was on fire. Then what I imagined it felt like to be a square peg being shoved violently through a round hole. Then I...