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The Gamblerby Adetokunbo AbiolaWhen Bamidele turned 40 in June, his wife, Iyabo, showed him Nigeria’s latest promotion as a birthday gift. The promotion consisted of just three lines on her cell phone. Bamidele remembered all he had to do was send a text message costing fifty naira to the organizers for a special mix of caller tunes.... PDF
So Roses and Joyby Ar GreyI walked into the shop right behind my mom. I usually walked right behind her whenever we went anyplace. I was shy, is why. Well, at four, why not? I was small, even for a girl, and maybe that’s why I was so shy...PDF
Phone Callsby Karen LevyIt is almost time to make the call, one of only two we allow ourselves each year. I sit on my porch under a dark California sky, smelling the night air of a now familiar land. Sweet hay from the meadows across town...PDF
Pocket Philosophersby Dorene O’BrienDaly says it’s destiny causing all my problems, but I know better. It’s Daly causing all my problems. Daly lives in a defunct cider mill just outside Lemmox. He’s a drunk and a scrapper, but he’s bright. He and Jared been carousing...PDF
Dahlby Lasantha RodrigoIt was dark when Arjun got into his brother-in-law’s turquoise van with two heavy suitcases. Sparrows began chirping as early morning sunrays filtered through the canopy of leaves on either side of the road. ...PDF
The Blue Ferretby Mark WolskyBoyd Glummer squinted across the dark alley into Pearson's Pharmacy, he wondered what was taking so long, he wondered if the gun in his pocket would even fire. The grip on the Beretta felt loose, its blue finish pitted and worn...PDF
Creative Nonfiction
"The Incurables": Writing Madness, Hopelessness, and Hopeby Mark BrazaitisSometimes writers choose their material; sometimes material chooses its writers.On the subject of depression, I fall in the latter camp. Of course nobody in their right mind would choose to become intimate with what Andrew Soloman calls the Noonday Demon....PDF
An Interview with Alan Cheuse by Tracey DonnellyStories come when they come. I couldn’t have written the title novella any time before my trip to Bali, for obvious reasons of content. As for questing, slightly disturbed female characters, I suppose I have written about them before this particular work. …PDF
The Tao of Flitcraft:Some Thoughts on the Ancient Art of the Near-Death Experienceby Kevin P. KeatingThere is a private joke among my family (you’ll excuse the redundancy of the expression; the reader will understand that most family jokes are of the “private” variety, but perhaps given the grim circumstances there is special need for emphasis here): I am, they say, the proverbial go-to man when a misfortunate...PDF
Five Decades by Anne E. NoonanI didn’t like the way she sounded on the phone – the shortness of breath, her report that oxygen tanks had been delivered, the discouraged words. She didn’t seem to be in any immediate danger...PDF
Poetry
Barbara Earle:Sailing up the Hudson River on a Starry Night, Writer's Workshop Critique, The OceanPDF
Tori Funkhouser: Relief, Damsels in Distress, Working with StonePDF
Heather Holliger: Dancing GirlPDF
Dallas Lee:John Doe,Love Field, 1961,Monkey WrenchPDF
Mark Marony: Beccafico, Cirque Calder De L'Univers, Paper SpeaksPDF
Nancy Scott: My Mother's Headstone, A Penny Saved, The Nature of Beyond PDF
Lois Greene Stone: Sound Barrier, InvisiblePDF
Liz Tucker: Harvesting Timber, Eggemoggin Reach, Coolie SnowfallsPDF
Patrick Williamson: WoodPDF
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