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DOG DAYS by Robert Levin I wanted to be invisible. Out of nowhere, with, I swear, nothing in my history to predict it, I'd done something people regard as sick and disgusting and I wanted to disappear. I should say that at first I wasn't so sure what I'd done was all that awful, and I certainly didn't concur with the character judgment implicit read

JAGGED EDGES by Marc Lowe She sat on the bed and watched. She watched them through a narrow chink in the wall. The boy had his arm around the girl. He was whispering something into her ear. The girl giggled and covered her mouth. He moved closer. She pushed him away. He tried again. She refused him again. He stopped smiling read


POETRY by Kent MacCarter We clang inside the attractive hours of night – that space we bring and blow smokes in each other’s face. Our hair lets drop a towel for a shower, quick With beer we’ll rinse away remains of purity. Yes, we’re cheats in velvet sins, near dawn, and fuel up a getaway car on one very, very dear condition read

REVIEW - THE WORLD AT WAR AND THE IDIOT, by DOSTOEVSKY by Dan Schneider It was not long after my family moved into the very first home we had ever owned, in our line's history, that I recall watching, with my dad, a really good television show called The World At War, which recounted the history of the Second World War. For my dad, born in 1916 read


POETRY by Angus Gorberg Chlorophormed from the very breaths That birthed them Subway trains hiss like snakes Sidewinding through familiar passages. A chaise for the chase Not too many ticks from now To the next day But enough to turn loose All the splinters and dirt Recycled through vocal chords The irreconcilable news flash from my mother that, “You’re not so special!” Cautioning me not to make too much of the standing ovation just hours earlier read

SORRY, BUKOWSKI by PL George
POETRY by Steve Kilbey
REVIEW of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past by Dan Schneider
LITERATURE by Tantra Bensko
POETRY by Justin Lowe
LITERATURE by Robert Smith
REVIEW OF ZANESVILLE /Interview with the author Kris Saknussemm by Brentley Frazer
POETRY by Carol Novack
POETRY by Julie Doxsee
POETRY by Ian McBryde
POETRY by Brian P. Katz
POETRY by R.M.Engelhardt
POETRY by Francis Raven
POETRY by Julie Beveridge
POETRY by Graham Nunn
REVIEW of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables by Dan Schneider
POETRY by Kevin Gillam
POETRY byMegan Volpert
THE NEXT TOLKIEN by Adrian Gibb
OUR NEW GEOGRAPHY by Michael Depp
A Reinterpretation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment by Dan SchneiderLITERATURE by Kenji Sirator
Review of Shusaku Endo's Deep River by Dan Schneider
LITERATURE by Rodney Nelson
POETRY by Graham Nunn
Recent Articles Archive

POETRY by David Bruckman
MUSIC - Everybody Loves Irene
REVIEW by Dan Schneider
THE ALLEY CAT by Robert Smith
POETRY by Stephen Oliver
NARROW STREET by Zdravka Evtimova
POETRY by Iain Britton
POETRY by Rochelle Ratner
RECIPE FOR EXTINCTION by John Kaminski
POETRY by Libby Hart
THE PAPER ME by Wayne H.W Wolfson
THE ACID GONG TEMPLE AWAITS -REVIEW by Robert Lort
NOT ANOTHER SENTIMENTAL STORY by Ivanka Deneva
CITIZEN’S ARREST by John Gorman
WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF ‘ART’ ? by Niko Vuletic
HOW TO MAKE A BABY by Robert Levin
SOME TALES by Antony RiddellPOETRY by Ashok Niyog

POETRY by David Bruckman
MUSIC - Everybody Loves Irene
REVIEW by Dan Schneider
THE ALLEY CAT by Robert Smith
POETRY by Stephen Oliver
NARROW STREET by Zdravka Evtimova
POETRY by Iain Britton
POETRY by Rochelle Ratner
RECIPE FOR EXTINCTION by John Kaminski
POETRY by Libby Hart
THE PAPER ME by Wayne H.W Wolfson
THE ACID GONG TEMPLE AWAITS -REVIEW by Robert Lort
NOT ANOTHER SENTIMENTAL STORY by Ivanka Deneva
CITIZEN’S ARREST by John Gorman
WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF ‘ART’ ? by Niko Vuletic
HOW TO MAKE A BABY by Robert Levin
SOME TALES by Antony Riddell
POETRY by Ashok Niyog

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KOUNTDOWN by Rhys Burley Clark
LITERATURE by Dan Schneider
Earthed, Nineveh & Ephemeron, Steve Kilbey by Robert Lort
DISCONNECTING by Robert SmithPOETRY by Paul Hardacre
À la Recherche des Têtes Perdues by Alan C. Baird
BRILLIANT FUTURE by Brentley Frazer and Fakie Wilde - THE BUTCHER'S SAGA PART 2
POETRY by Paul. A Skec
POETRY by Mandy Beaumont
FTA CHANCE by Niko Vuletic
POETRY by Jeffery S. Taylor

'AL QAEDEA' IS A MANUFACTURED INTELLIGENCE FRONT by Kawther Salam
BACK ON MY OWN TWO FEET by David Smithyman
URDOXA by Kane X. Faucher
HARVESTMAN by Rodney Nelson
POETRY by Maurice Oliver
POETRY by Ernest Williamson III
POETRY by Arne Sjostedt
Tactics, Psychosis and Techno-Contaminants by Matthew Fuller
POETRY & VISUALS by August Highland
AMERICAN CALIGULA by Raymond Ponziny

LAOS - A FLASHBOOK by Severin Minus Se7en
WHEN PACINO'S HOT, I'M HOT by Robert Levin
POETRY by Sheila Murphy
THE WORDMAN - CHAPTER SIX by Justin Lowe
Tales from the Imagination of Kamal Talvar by Asim Rizki Kamal
POETRY by Brett Dionysius
POETRY by Todd Swift
POETRY by Robert Lort
An Existential Psychoanalysis of the Republican Character by Noah Cicero and Berice Mullins
POETRY by Graham Nunn
LITERATURE by Robert Smith
POETRY by M.T.C Cronin
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS NO ACCIDENT by Ted Twietmeyer
POETRY by Alicia Bennett
CUPID STORY by Gerald R. Ford
IN ORBIT AROUND MARS by Brian Willems
POETRY by Adam Pettet
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT by David Roblee
POETRY by Papa Osmubal
IS ALLAH YAHWEH? by Gary Sloan
NARRATIVE AS DEVOTION by G.David Schwartz
FREE JAZZ The Jazz Revolution of the '60s by Robert Levin
POETRY by Tom Sheehan
POETRY by Guillaume Destot
POETRY by Lyn Lifshin
OLD PRESIDENTS & NEW THEOCRATS by Gary Sloan
FOR THE RECORD by Margarita Meklina
TRANS DOPAMINE by Anne Boyer
POETRY by Ian McBryde
INTERVIEW WITH CARLTON MELLICK by Robert Lort
JUNE, by Stoyan Valev

The Enigma of Bullysdodo by Mark Davies
IT’S CALLED WAR by Drazan Gunjaca
BABEL by Ovidiu Bufnila
THE SATELITTE PROGRAM by Robert Smith
POETRY by August Highland
POETRY by Michael Standaert
POETRY by Terry Lee
POETRY by Michael Farrell
Everything's all right in The Middle East by Robert Levin
Free Trade for Who? by Niko Vuletic
Dionysus in the USA by Paula Bardell
Poems by Adam Murray
Poems by Wendy Morgan
Poems by Les Wicks
Case Analysis of Some Humans by Noah Cicero
Poems by Dee Rimbaud
Poems by Maurice Oliver
Poems by Andrew Lundwall
Poetry by Paul Hardacre
Poems by Graham Nunn
Mike Parr & Adam Geczy: All Swaddled Up reviewed by Robert Lort
What Nietzsche's Mother never taught him by Robert M Smith
Poems by Mandy Beaumont
Poems by Duane Locke
Poems by Janice M. Bostok
Opinion piece by our Arts Ed. Niko Vuletic
Chasing Maps by Barbara Jela Christo