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February/March 2010
Vol. VIII No. 4   ISSN: 1545-3650
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Day of Origin
Death Works Overtime
Gemini Begins
Love Bites
Memories
My Donut, My Love
Nintendo Has a Lot
Origin of a Species
A Picture is Worth
Questioning Nothing
Savior
Sunday Afternoon

~ ~ ~ ~ Ghoul ~ ~ ~ by Paul Latham, Tennessee
When you (alone) whisper in the graveyard darkness be sure you know who hears your voice.

 

 

 

Music of the Spheres ~ by Mike Frost, New York
Strings plucked: music (Of the Spheres): Pythagorean string theory harmonizing life.
 

 
 


Featured Fiction
Nintendo Has a Lot to Answer For

by Mark Joseph Kiewlak  ©2010

I remember the slippery sweat feel of the controller held sometimes all night long in the darkened dormitory of the eighties.

There were endless bags of chips, sugar in every form.

A feeling of community—cart chases and princesses to be rescued.

"It's all coming down to the video game reflexes," Tom Cruise said in The Color Of Money.

Who can tell the difference anymore when the red founts spray and the crimson mouths gurgle?

I'm wired head-to-toe with neural transceivers broadcasting each pothole jolt to a cerebral cortex hyped up to the Nth degree by sports power drinks.

The athlete's foot itch in my four hundred dollar combat boots might be real or planted there by corporate greed.

I'm mowing down faceless enemies even in my sleep.

The game is playing itself, and I am just a blip blinking my way toward oblivion on someone else's screen.

~ Mark Joseph Kiewlak, Pennsylvania  ©2010

Since 2008 Mark’s fiction has appeared in more than two dozen magazines, including Bewildering Stories, The Rose & Thorn, Black Petals, Midnight Times, Hardboiled, and The Bitter Oleander. He was privileged to have served as judge of the 2007 Wild Violet Fiction Contest. He has also written for DC Comics (FLASH 80-PAGE GIANT #2) and counts among his favorite authors Robert B. Parker, Anne Rice, Ray Bradbury, Alan Moore, and J. M. DeMatteis.

 
 

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