Issue 23

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Issue 23, June 1, 2013

Dear Readers,

No need for a lot of talk. Enjoy the issue.

Enjoy,

Scott T. Barnes, Editor

Table of Contents

Fiction

The Dragon's Back Door by D.A. D'Amico

Surprisingly, it didn't smell that bad at all. The odors wafting through the cramped chamber were somehow tasty; reminiscent of the great boar they'd roasted last Michaelmas. Andeanus could feel his stomach protesting, reminding him that he hadn't eaten since he sneaked into the old monastery the dragon used as a lair...

Speed Dating Books by Sarina Dorie

A gravelly voice projected itself from a copy of the Stephen King novel, "Hey, lady. You want some literary thrills? Get between these sheets." The book on the table of best-sellers flipped to its climax, exposing the juiciest part of the story. I turned my gaze to the floor, not ready to see so much. Really, I didn't even know the book...

Spirits in the Salt by T.D. Edge

At nightfall, and from distance, the salt mine settlement looked to me like a battlefield: small fires everywhere, men with blackened faces in ragged clothes, the tang of scorched meat barely disguising the strong odor of sulfur from the surface salt deposits. The setting sun behind the working village only aided this end-of-the-world image by turning objects into dark silhouettes...

Tyler's Ten by Larry Hodges

Tippecanoe was dead. After only thirty days in office, the nation's ninth president, 68-year-old William Henry Harrison, was gone, done in by pneumonia after giving a two-hour inaugural address in freezing cold, telling the American people all the things he would now never do...

Outside the Body by Philip Roberts

Roy was used to finding all sorts of undesirable crap when the time came to evict a tenant, and most of it he could ignore or throw away, but when he opened the door to the abandoned apartment C2, he found bedbugs...

Flash Fiction

Kitt the Shadow by Rachel A. Dowling

NonFiction

Arthur Machen's Ecstasy by Natalie Satakovski

Poetry

iLove by Diarmuid de Barra

A drowning/Leviathan by Lynette Mejia

Molting Season by Kenneth O'Shaughnessy