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May-June 2025 Issue

From the Editor

May/June 2025 Recommended New Music

Click on each cover pic to play a video. Kinky Friedman“Poet of Motel 6”The late singer, songwriter, author, animal rescuer, and occasional candidate for public...
May-June 2024 Issue

POETRY: BLEED

by Gaylord Brewer I love to bleed.—Arturo Gatti My Timberlands, jean legs boundby rubber band, padded jacketare no protectionfrom thorn that hooks my ear.Shaking loose, I...
May-June 2024 Issue

EN PLEIN AIR

Painting On Location in the Great OutdoorsFeaturing paintings byCarl Bretzke, Michelle Held, and Garry Kravit A quick primer: en plein air is French for “outdoors,”...
From the Editor

POETRY: Arrowhead

by Peter Mladinic He found an arrowheadin the desert and gave it to a girlhe met that weekendwith her family. No arrowhead experthe leaned.Seeing something in...
Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: The Moth, by Scott Archer Jones

THE MOTHScott Archer JonesFomite Press258 pagesThe Moth, the noir novel by Scott Archer Jones, propels readers on the path of a sad, gray inhabitant...
Books

May-June 2025 Recommended New Books

Click on the cover pic to order each book. Heartbreaker: A MemoirMike Campbell with Ari SandovalAnother member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers graces our...
Fiction

FICTION: “Mary Anne’s Tan” by Lynne Barrett

The Contessa—everyone calls her the Contessa—goes upstairs after prep to change her blouse, a small ceremony before she opens the Sea Nymph for lunch....
Fiction

FICTION: “Me and Marley” by Larry Desautels

I knew it was over when she bought that Subaru Outback, and a kayak. She’d leave me, and she’d say she always knew, and...
Fiction

FICTION: “Rose-Colored Sunglasses” by Heath Dollar

“Since we’re already digging him up, if there’s anything you would like besides the watch, please let me know,” Matthias Schaeffer said while adjusting...
Fiction

FICTION: “There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood” by John Dufresne

Peregrine Fontana awoke belly up in the canebrake. His wrists tied behind his back and bound to his ankles with what felt like wire...

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