AFTER THE RAINBOW - ZANETA JOHNS After the Rainbow: Golden Poems (Prolific Pulse Press LLC 2022) is a poignant and inspiring collection...

BY JON MORAY Ryan was seventeen years old when he first learned his grandfather had spent, at that time, twenty years in a mental ward....

BY PAUL LAMB The longest day of Rimi’s life was also the shortest day of her life. It started with a software upgrade she needed to get...

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Claudette Martinez Canada #claudettemartinezartist You are enslaved. Not by chains or pistol or whip. Not by fences, nor by man. You are...

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By Teika Marija Smits The obsession changes. Sometimes it’s clear what it’s about. Like safety. No one wants their house broken into....

By Leighton Schreyer (He/Him) She drew in a breath and let it settle, holding the air and, by extension, herself in a kind of limbo as...

The Odyssey of Judge Santiago Burdon begins in the 'City of Big Shoulders' , as Sandburg called it in his poem "Chicago". He was born...

Carolyn Chilton Casas is an Usui/Holy Fire® Reiki Master practitioner and teacher with a background in metaphysics and a great interest...

Published and shared posthumously with permission by Catherine L Schweig Janavi Held (1965-2018) was an artist, dancer, photographer,...

By Sonia Pal England, United Kingdom Under the trees, there used to be our two cows: the binding force of our family. They were the main...

By Hedley Griffin Suffolk, United Kingdom https://www.dangerspot.co.uk “Go on, Silas, go and give your mother a hand,” said his father....

CALLING young authors, poets, artists, song writers, photographers, etc. We are excited to dedicate our October (OUR 24th!) Issue to our...

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Milisav Rosić was born in Mojkovac in 1997, where he finished primary and secondary school. He is a student at the Faculty of Political...

Tiffany Babb is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic. Her cultural criticism has been published in PanelxPanel Magazine, The AV Club,...

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