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...
by David Churchill Barrows | Aug 11, 2019 | 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...
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...
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...
by Laila AiSiss | Jul 11, 2019 | Issue No 5, Nonfiction, Read
Life in Lebanon By Laila Ai-Sisssi ; The sky appeared grey before it turned black. Walls of white foam trailed me with an amplified angry roar. I swam faster until my arms felt like sandbags. On the verge of drowning, Rawyia’s voice echoed as if reverberating from the...
by Anne Butcher | Jul 11, 2019 | Issue No 4, Nonfiction, Read
Introducing a New Bingeworthy Super Hero Series By Anne Butcher ; Over the past decade, superheroes have supersaturated the entertainment industry. We’ve seen numerous films and television shows, and there’s no sign of the genre’s popularity dying anytime soon. With...
Chinatown – Dissecting the ScreenplayIn Featured Story, Nonfiction, ReadIn what a lesser film would treat as a forgettably functional, utilitarian scene in service of the next story beat, Towne infuses with situational humor, interpersonal politics, colorful character beats and mundane yet identifiable and immediately relatable stakes--on top of a stirring cornerstone revelation.
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