BALLISTIC TERROR / JOHN ROTH

Streamline missiles hurdle through aerospace like silver finned tuna.  Remote guided warhead system, installed with microchip technology, to track and annihilate as though they are sharks, smelling blood for the first time, with their red coned-noses shredding skyline. Efficient killing.  Cluster bombs
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HER JOB / DONAVON DAVIDSON

My love works the midnight shift at the old folks home for acrobats. Sometimes two or three performances an evening, there’s little sleep at their age. There goes Hank, righting himself in a fit of passion, now Mabel preparing to take the
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EARTH DAYS / D. IASEVOLI

I.  Wetlands Preserve Wetlands fill again with heavy rains and thin poplar sprout overnight to trap gentle beasts for predator packs. I find more skulls and splintered bones along the creek beds. One skull stares out totemically: giant sockets, teeth the color
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AFTERMATH / SCOTT LEE WILLIAMS

There’s one universe in which he succeeded. He planned for months, bought the guns, shot his mother, drove to the school, and killed 20 children. But that’s only one. There were others. So, in 2012, he got caught before it happened, or,
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THALASSA / CHAD CHRISTOPHER

 (For my sisters. Jessica. Emily. Pearl.) Far from the fire, I squat near the cave’s mouth, waiting to hear it voice cries of a fresh soul, of a sibling. I have heard the sounds before, held brothers and sisters, whispered to them
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SIRENSONG / M. M. PRYOR

“When do I get to meet your parents?” Emma asks after we finish having sex. And there it is; the dreaded question. I don’t like questions, period, because they all seem to lead back to this one, but at least it’s easier
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ISSUE # 3

COVER ART  BY  CHRISTOPHER WHEELING EARTH DAYS  /  D. IASEVOLI SKY BOX  /  C. WAIT A TRUE NORTH DREAM WITH ASTRONOMY AND BOTANICAL CONSEQUENCES  /  HAROLD WHIT WILLIAMS LEVITATION  /  RAJIA HASSIB HER JOB  /  DONAVON DAVIDSON SIRENSONG  /  M.M. PRYOR BALLISTIC
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