Contents

Mark DeFoe
Won’t You Please Help....

Michelle Acker
sublimation
the three thoughts

Karla Huston
Doves at the Edge
This Tornado Loves You

Lois P. Jones
The Reluctant Daughter
Thirty Seconds at the Light

Kevin Kinsella
Knife Work
As Though

Laurie MacDiarmid
The Clock of His Shoes
If My Father Came Back From the Dead

Robert Manaster
The Art of Being Intimate Strangers
In the Deep Recess of a Period

Darren Morris
Cloud Seeding
Steampunk

Jack Powers
In Fear of Heart Attacks
In Praise of Heart Attacks

Juanita Rey
Behind the Foreman’s Back
The Man Who Got Me into this Fix

Ron Riekki
My Brother Thinks I’m Suicidal
The Things I Never Should Have Done

Art by James Deeb

James Deeb holds an MFA from Western Michigan University. His art has its philosophical roots in texts like Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, the work of German Expressionists, and the writings of J.G. Ballard and Charles Bukowski. Deeb refers to this artistic strand as the dystopian minority opinion. website