Contents: Issue 2 – April 2014

Poetry

HANNAH SILVA

• School of Music
• The Empty House

DAVID POLLARD

• Our Childrens’ Land
• The Dark Fiddler
• Impression

IRA LIGHTMAN

• Wereghosting

ADRIAN SLATCHER

• The Mutables
• May the Livid Times Settle
• Impressions Between Places

SIDDHARTHA BOSE

• Doctor Sahib
• What the Bass Said

ANGELA READMAN

• The Lacetakers

BETHANY RIVERS

• Barred

VALERIE BENCE

• Visiting Oceans
• Companion of the Small Hours
• Distilliation

GRAHAM ATTENBOROUGH

• Black Jack
• Scratch

RICHARD KING PERKINS II

• Diary of a Sensitive Youth

BETHANY W. POPE

• Three 5 x 5’s
• The Quality of Mercy

DAVID CALCUTT

• end of september
• Dark Journey

ISOBEL DIXON

• River Mother
• A Missionary in Neon Green

JERROLD YAM

• Cardiologist

COLIN SUTHERILL

• Blur

JENNA CLAKE

• A cold-side-of-the-pillow morning

Fiction

TANIA HERSHMAN

• Missing My Liar

CARLY HOLMES

• The Black Night Long

RACHEL TREZISE

• Say Porthcawl

AMANDA KOESTER

• Rowing Alone

JL BOGENSCHNEIDER

• Caliban Taciturn

JANET OLEARSKI

• The Older Short-Haired Female

ROBERT T. KRANTZ

• Down the Street That Lady Comes

AYIBU MAKOLO

• The Walkers

THOMAS McCOLL

• The Plagiarist

Theatre

KATHY RUCKER

• Beautiful Scar

OTHNIEL SMITH

• The Naked Major

BARRY CHARMAN

• Revenge in Twenty-Four Moves

NIKI ORFANOU

• Knock-Knock

Articles

TWO AMERICANS

• Adam Horovitz reviews On This Borrowed Bike by Lisa Panepinto (Three Rooms Press) and Crown of Thorns by Bethany W Pope (Oneiros Books).

ABSENT THINGS

• Lucy Jeynes reviews The Absent Therapist by Will Eaves, and Things To Make And Break by May-Lan Tan.

READING TOO MUCH

• Lisa Parry interviews Samantha Ellis about rereading, playwriting and her new book, How To Be A Heroine.