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Fiction

By: William B. Turner “Junior!” he bellowed. “Where did that boy get to now?” Willard wondered to himself. He was an irascible, but not unusually cruel for the times, man who was proud of what he had achieved, growing the…

Poetry

By: Stephanie V Sears Vashlovani Of all places I am here at my place at the heart of every possibility. Space glides under the clear skin of sky, invincible transparency to well above the mesosphere, vertigo of simplicity. One glance…

Fiction

By: Oliver Fox That night at the diner, Maya danced behind the counter. The Staples Singers’ “If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)” wafted from the jukebox, and the hash browns fizzled and popped on the griddle. From time to time…

Fiction

By: Alan Berger Terrence McNeil could not catch a break in his whole life, so he thought, except for the break his balls, break his back, and ass, and heart kind of breaks. The last was first and will always…

Poetry

By: Phillip Border Tracks Late in my adolescence I once busted a beer bottle over some skin head’s scalp before his pals grappled me to the ground and steel-toed my face raw into the pool of his hot blood. That’s…

Poetry

By: Marc Carver DEAD I wake up to the disappointment that I am still alive anything could have happened to me during my drunken sleep aliens could have abducted me bandits could have slit my throat in the wee hours…

Poetry

By: Divya John Vanished in a Vampire World In the wilderness of the creepy jungle I trotted, upset, terrified and confused It was more of a struggle from within To encounter a challenging Vampire. Bestowed with superhuman powers He can…

Books ReviewsPoetry

By: Srinivas S. Kumar Absence From love remembered, since unmade; Of night that is the death of day; Through sleep forgotten in a dream; Past leaves which long again for trees; To waves that stay in castles crashed; And skies that…

NewsTravel

Chancery Pavilion, a hospitality chain in Bengaluru, launched an unparalleled Australian craft brewery by Cavalier as a part of its gastronomic destination at ‘Alchemy’. Cavalier’s foray into the country with The Chancery Group is set to entice the beer lovers…

Poetry

By: Amirah Al- Wassif  Once upon a time, in a very far land which called Orshalim, there were three innocent boys sitting at the center of the immense fig tree. The three cheerful boys were Ali, Peter and Abraham, were playing…