Fiction by Patrick Johnston

“It was in the hours of darkness under the clear gibbous moon, that the old barn owl took for its prey a young mouse that scurried across the yard between the stables and the potting shed.”

Fiction by Randy Tierce

“I would often lie awake in that tiny country farmhouse just listening to the sounds of the night. The lamentations of the whippoorwills. The yipping of the coyotes. The complaints of northbound cattle trucks downshifting, their jake brakes blapping strong objections to slowing down.”

Fiction by Peter Pagano

“They guided me in that small woodland graveyard beneath towering trees to the stone which read, “As I am now so you shall be” at top, followed beneath by my name on the tombstone and ‘As you are now, so I once was’…”