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Telling Stories of Ghosts

by Wendy N. Wagner | Apr 13, 2021 | Current Issue, Nonfiction

I spent three or four years giving every dead creature I found in our yard or along our narrow country road a proper burial. Instead of joining Girl Scouts or 4H, I devoured books about ghosts and the undead. Instead of becoming horse crazed, as so many second- and third-grade girls do, I developed a passion for war, weapons, and Romantic poetry. I eschewed pink for a palette of all-black.

Interview with Author Annie Neugebauer

by Andrea Johnson | Apr 8, 2021 | Current Issue, Interviews

Enjoy our interview with “If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run” author Annie Neugebauer.

She Searches for God in the Storm Within

by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali | Apr 6, 2021 | Current Issue, Short Fiction

The sky was the color of iron and the air tasted like iron filings, like blood. It reminded me of Reef’s belt buckle, which made me think about the things he would say and how they never matched the things he did. And how, despite the way he always used God to prop up his reasoning, it still crumbled like a mountain beneath God’s wrath.

Jimi Hendrix Sang It

by ZZ Claybourne | Apr 1, 2021 | Current Issue, Nonfiction

Until only recently, the World Fantasy Award, both the winner’s trophy and the nomination pins, were a bust of the author H.P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, someone who clearly had zero compunctions against being the worst he could be under the most specious of excuses, is well-known for pointedly toxic, virulent racism.

If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run

by Annie Neugebauer | Mar 30, 2021 | Current Issue, Short Fiction

Everything aches. Her back is tight and knotted at the bottom of her spine, because Keena is in a phase where she wants to be able to look up at her as she’s held. With that thought, Bethesda glances down, peeking under the wrap to see if she’s asleep. Keena dozes, lips parted, cheek smushed against Bethesda’s chest, eyes hooded. Good. Good enough.