2025-Issue 22

I open the windows, Welcome the agonizing cold breeze— It blows Within my soul. It casts spells on>>Read more...

Grady eased his motorbike down the plunging road while the sea revealed itself below. The cleft>>Read more...

cerulean loss and snow-lined streaks of hope were painted in that voice. . you called me, wounded>>Read more...

Crystal scrambles down the side of Snake Den Ridge, playfully skipping through a mountain laurel>>Read more...

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The moon spilled its silvery light into the room, catching on the rich burgundy of velvet curtains>>Read more...

Would you mind if I shared your park bench? No? Thank you, then. Yes, this is quite nice. I love>>Read more...

In the spring of 1967, I dropped out of high school, certain I was smarter than anybody else in that>>Read more...

Why could I not remember this place? The morning sun lit the mirror of the lake and set ablaze the>>Read more...

I see her. The mirror’s mouth yawns into the past. She’s twirling from the ceiling (no>>Read more...

The house didn’t look like the kind of place one would imagine could be haunted. Sure, it wasn’t>>Read more...

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One September rains christened the old cemetery with a bleakness that blackened the gravestones>>Read more...

I often wondered, why me? Why do we exist when we do? Our time on this one Earth, chosen at random>>Read more...

Crackling static merging with the sound of the rain outside and the snapping wick of the burning>>Read more...

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Dean Shawker Dean Shawker hails from Bracknell, UK, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia. Dean is>>Read more...

Jodi Christensen Small town Utah is where Jodi calls home. She spends her days in a>>Read more...

Kara Hawkers Kara Hawkers is a poet and author of short, dark fiction. As Editor-in-Chief, Kara>>Read more...

Janet Wright Janet Wright lives in the wilds of North Yorkshire, UK, where foxes shriek and owls>>Read more...