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Fiction
He said he loved his wife. Part of me wanted to believe him—wanted to believe he was telling the truth.
Non-Fiction
The man standing across from me has a long, barbed scar cutting straight down his chest.
Poetry
You suck at striper fishing declares a bumper sticker on a Toyota Tacoma.
Poetry
Brackish water detonates, stickleback failing to squirm from the kingfisher’s bill.
Poetry
Contrary to Popular Belief, or, My Parents Debate Religion Over Coffee
My father doesn’t believe in God the way he thinks he should.
Poetry
The world of direct marketing is a medium reaching out to you, dearly departed first wife.
Poetry
As on a children’s show, the green-and-cream trolley with wide windows for eyes,
Interview
An Interview with Charles Holdefer
Charles Holdefer is a writer based in Brussels, Belgium. His latest collection of short stories, Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic, has just been released.
Review
Book Review: More Strange Than True by C.J. Spataro
C.J. Spataro’s More Strange Than True is a genre-blending novel of romance and fantasy set in modern-day Philadelphia.
Review
Book Review: Doctor Spight by L.M. Asta
Dr. Drew Spight, an obstetrics and gynecology attending at St. Thomas Medical Center in Philadelphia, wanted to escape.
Review
Book Review: Rainbow Tales by Kathleen Murphey
This time there really is something new under the summer sun.
Review
ONLINE Bonus – Book Review: Dwell Here and Prosper by Chris Eagle
At eighteen, while a first-year student at Villanova, Chris Eagle became the primary caregiver for his father, Dick Eagle, after he suffered a stroke in his Delco home.
Review
ONLINE Bonus – Book Review: One Day I Am A Field by Amy Small-McKinney
Author Amy Small-McKinney wastes no time inviting us to enter a world of grief as she accompanies her husband on a journey who has been living with dementia.
Review
ONLINE Bonus – Book Review: House Parties by Lynn Levin
House Parties is the debut short story collection of Lynn Levin, an established poet and English faculty member at Drexel University.
Fiction
That summer, August 1969, fourteen-years-old, I rode the trolley to the Army/Navy store and bought hip-hugger bellbottoms.