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February 23, 2026 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

And One by One They Disappeared, by Stephen O’Connor

  Here in the snow, in the woods, there is black, there is white, and endless shades between, but none…

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February 17, 2026 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Jennifer Maritza McCauley

  How to Love a Mango Girl Crack open her chestwall with surgical loveliness, remove the slippery, heaving Thing inside,…

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February 9, 2026 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Kathryn Weld

  To a Slide of The Temptation of Eve in a Lecture on Medieval Art I was twenty when I…

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February 5, 2026 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Michael Lee Rattigan

  Underland “If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.” —Walt Whitman Where stalactite meets bone (in…

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January 30, 2026 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Gillian Cummings

  Hour of the Puppets “We’re surrounded by different realities, one on top of the other…Even the smallest pebble has…

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January 27, 2026 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Four Poems, by Timothy Donnelly

  Immortal Memory Sick in childhood, I wouldn’t mind a can of Campbell’s Scotch Broth, a kinder soup than others,…

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January 14, 2026 - Art, Featured, Interview, Podcast

Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 21: A Conversation About Interconnectedness

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January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 - Awards, Featured, News, Reading, Writing

Joanna Ruocco’s “iDeath” Is a Best Microfiction 2026 Pick!

  Good news! Joanna Ruocco’s “iDeath” was selected for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2026! Delighted to have published this marvelous…

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December 17, 2025December 18, 2025 - Anthology, Featured, Reading, Writing

Big Other Anthology 2025

  While it’s vital to expose and do everything we can to fight against this country’s government’s stupidity, lies, and…

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December 8, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Room Without Dreams, by Lance Olsen

  In ten hours, the surgical resident Syd’s day at the hospital will be behind her and she will meet…

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