“Blood” Donations
Spotlight on…
Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
Assaultive feathers, plotting spiders, and sleep paralysis make you question everything in the mind-twisting, “Blood” themed short story “Rag Doll Symposium” by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi.
You won’t know what side of the looking-glass you are on.

Smokestack
Poetry by Noll Griffin
“No matter how far out the window you lean, the miasma clings
To the embarrassed sharpshooter’s black sleeve.”

1962: It’s Always the Girl’s Fault
Fiction by DC Diamondopolous
“In the classified section of the Daily Breeze, Donna had recognized a coded message with a phone number and called.”

Suffocation
Fiction by Nick Young
“The past had become the present and now loomed as his desolate future.”

Bones Bleed
Digital Art by Robyn Braun

Cassandra, smoking in the walk-in freezer
Poetry by Isabel Yacura
“In honor of pulling my teeth out:
Letting them clink on the linoleum floor, piano keys, ivory all the way down.”