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Mom’s Mom’s Mom’s Music Box
by Nora Esme Wagner Mom’s music box is being auctioned off on eBay. Not her exact one—that disappeared with her. Delia and I upended the entire house, opening air vents, the false back board in her closet, the paint cans left in the garage from when she decided to paint all the walls lemon. She… Continue reading
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Your Fictional Life
by David Raney I’ll admit it: I’m a word nerd. Books lean from stacks on my floor and bedside table; I read at coffee shops, on elevators, at red lights. Years ago a new neighbor mused, “I’m gonna have to get some books for all these shelves,” articulating a problem I’m not familiar with. Reading… Continue reading
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The Resolution of a Woman’s War
by Kaci MoDavis Kaci MoDavis is a Pennsylvania-born writer and MFA Candidate in The Writer’s Foundry in Brooklyn, NY. She’s the Fiction Editor for Mouthful of Salt and Assistant Managing and Marketing Editor for Tabula Rasa Review. Continue reading
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Two Poems by Elizabeth S. Gunn
Invitation I cannot describe my aeipathy for you, so I sift through an orange and stony desert. Its immense worldbeneath each fuzzy, violet Antelope Bitterbrush. Its pouring screeand dry bed rivers and hot antivenom for indifference.Mycologists comb for lichens that find their way through ancient plutonic rocks to thrive on petrified wood. Waters come and go. Monsoon… Continue reading
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DIES IRAE
by Garrett Speller I think, it would start with the wind, a simple,Summer thing, winding its way over whitecaps and waterboardsSkirting up mountains to mingle with clouds that hangOver mountaintops, then descending into forests and bringingThe first hints of storm, A whisper of rain, a darkening sky crawling fromBehind verdant peaks, their descent inevitableAnd brutal… Continue reading
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Gertrude Stein’s Rose by Janina Aza Karpinska
Janina Aza Karpinska is a multidisciplinary Artist-Poet from the south coast of England. Poetry informs her collages with an eye for the ‘chime’ and rhythm of line and pattern. Her work features on covers of: Heart of Flesh; Drawn to the Light; The Genre Society; Under_Score Magazine, and in: 3 Elements Review; The Empty Mirror;… Continue reading
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We, the Spiders
by Jaclyn Port The spider appeared late Wednesday night, or before dawn Thursday morning. None of us knew the exact time, as we were all getting our recommended six-to-eight hours of sleep or finishing our homework. We only saw segments of it as we arrived at The School: three legs each on Keyuan Road and… Continue reading
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And Again About My Father
by Mia Vodanovich In another world I inherit my father’s Mustang – We drive to the beach for my 20th birthdayAnd nothing turns to a pile of crushed metal;In the spring my hair whips around my face and all the falling cherry blossoms. My father sits shotgun, no seatbelt. Mia Vodanovich is a writer, educator,… Continue reading
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Artwork by Laurie Hollman
Laurie Hollman is a psychoanalyst who has published award-winning books, poetry, and short stories, and cover art in publications such as The California Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Beyond Words,Cosmic Daffodil and others. Continue reading
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Bystander
by Mary Kate Williams As a novelist, with quite a robust imagination, I never expected the mob to be involved in the success or demise of my literary art piece novel. But here we are. “Thanks again,” I trill, exiting the nail salon feeling truly pampered. Some women do this every week; how do they… Continue reading
January House Literary Journal 