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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
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Artwork by Tinamarie Cox
Tinamarie Cox lives in Arizona with her husband, two children, and rescue felines. Her written and visual work has appeared in a number of publications under various genres. Her artwork has appeared on the covers of Troublemaker Firestarter, Heimat Review, Soft Star Magazine, Full House Literary, and more. Her photography on the cover of In… Continue reading
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Two Poems by Haley DiRenzo
Betta FishMy senior year of high school, I pulled a betta fish from a bag. Licorice candy scales reflecting through the glass. An exercise in incorporating an object into a speech: just keep swimming. I tried to return the fish to the teacher, but she told me it was mine. On freedom’s cusp, I did… Continue reading
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I’m Tired of Numbers
by Chloe Lee I’m tired of numbers.Of waking up to a clockand falling asleep to one.Of calculating how many hours I got, how many I missed,how many I still need.They are everywhere.Calories on a granola bar,digits glowing on a bathroom scale, percentages on tests that don’t ask how long I studiedor how much I cried.They… Continue reading
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Two Poems by Stacey Lounsberry
This is Where We SplitMy head breaks the surface for a drink of air, and I see them:my stepsons coming into my water like divorce-sized bombs.Your voices, air-raid sirens, surround me.Your group of teenage boys swarm the mid-lake boulder:pimpled, hairless chests, too-red lips like vinegary ketchup kisses. They look just like you.I swim out to… Continue reading
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Two Poems by Rikki Santer
No, butwhat’s floating inside these couplets and what you know the cold wantsstart with a sign unknownghost in the machine moving through the long perse of doubt andwhat’s clicking between your earswhat could be the lone one linerand what the dream thinksthe din of crackers in your mouthcod liver oil laced with laughing gaslive oak… Continue reading
January House Literary Journal 