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Two Poems by Katy Luxem
GenerationsOne more election and my firstbaby can vote. The other daywe saw two men walkingalong the side of a roadwith a gas can. She asked What do you think they are doing? And I said, starting a fire or, perhaps, they are just helpingone another get home. There really isn’t much distancebetween fear and hope.The Continue reading
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Contributor Book: Sean Bw Parker
Contributor Sean Bw Parker, has just released a debut collection of poetry, Panopticon. The book is available through Close to the Bone publishing: https://www.close2thebone.co.uk/wp/books/panopticon/ Written between 2018 and 2025, these poems are snapshots of the 21st century British justice system in action. The title Panopticon refers to architect and prison reformer Sir Jeremy Bentham’s triangular Continue reading
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Issue 1.03 is Live!
by Jeffrey Heath Our Winter 2025 issue is now live on the site. You can view the free PDF edition here. Print and Kindle editions are also available via Amazon. Jeffrey Heath, Founding Editor, EIC – January House Literary Journal Continue reading
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete the Sacred by Samantha Lucia
Samantha Lucia (she/her) is a queer poet and photographer based in Asheville, NC. Her creative work is shaped by chronic illness, heightening her sensitivity to nuance, and she approaches both mediums as acts of witness. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetries in English, Witches Magazine, Fang & Flower Literary Magazine, Lunar Sea Literary,… Continue reading
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Dating Parsley
by Isabel Navarrete Dill weed, dill weed, dill weed echoes in my head as I scan the wall of seasonings that are packaged the same. Transparent plastic jars with green lids cover the shelf; the only thing differentiating them all is the name printed in fine font. As I keep searching, my eyes begin to Continue reading
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Effective Marketing Strategies
by Hugh Behm-Steinberg Walking home I saw something dressed in green and impossible, fluttering above a bus stop bench with an online therapy ad on it, lacey dragonfly wings humming. “Hi Jake,” she waved, like she was real, and knew who I was, but in my mind I was going nope, nope, nope. Nobody else Continue reading
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Two Poems by Eric Fisher Stone
Beautiful Red CreaturesWater mites ride a mosquitolike clusters of hot cherriesthe color of Mars or Arcturus,Earthworms, foxes, male cardinalsplumed with flame, tomato frogsoozing poisonous glue,scarlet ibises and their bills’ sickles,red pandas, red squirrels, lobsters,vermilion flycatchers with wingsas small as rose petals, red-on-yellowto kill a fellow–coral snakes,summer tanagers molting the blazeof their feathers, ladybugs,humboldt squid, firetail Continue reading
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Coluber Constrictor
by James Evans On the day you died a snake fellfrom the sky as I opened the overhead doorto my garage. It thumped long and black against my chest, slid downmy legs and raced awayinto the green, tall grass. It could be an omen,I thought, but I don’t really believe in things like that and Continue reading
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Unemployment Doldrums (Kind of Blue)
by Samuel A. Bellin I am released into my nothingness. I turn it into airdisturbed by the pitiful clacking of black squares. Above my gabled roof the yellow moon hangs like a pearripened and full of summer’s sweet juice. I lustand flick the dial on the record player back to “phono”,watch its red light burn Continue reading
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We Had Tea
by Tracie Adams I once had lunch with royalty, but what mattered most wasn’t the crown. It was the moment a young woman in a royal-blue dress lifted her head, met my eyes, and made me feel visible at a time when I thought I might disappear. It was 1983, long before Charles became King. Continue reading
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