“Architects cover their mistakes with vines; doctors with soil.” This is just one of the many pithy jokes that appear in the book Laughter Is the Best Medicine: Medical Epigrams of J.H. Goldfuss. Packaged in a canary-yellow cover... Read More

The smallest of moments can have great meaning. The short poems in Daniel Micheal Hermon’s "Travelling in the Mind" touch on many things, from the look of “a great church” and a one-toothed man to a beloved cat and clouds in the... Read More

Lloyal High Cloud Walker notes in "Alpha State Writings", “Alpha State is that state often achieved in meditation, wherein the brain produces mostly Alpha waves.” Each piece in Walker’s collection of general musings, poems, and... Read More

Bryon Smith does not expect readers to believe his story, at least at first. It is, after all, the stuff of fantasy: a spirit contacts him from the afterlife and reveals an astonishing theology that explains humanity’s experiences in... Read More

In Princess Ryan’s Star Marines, the titular military force is determined to rescue their charge, Princess Ryan, from the rebellious Grand Republic’s clutches and return her to the Holy and Universal Galactic Empire. Viceroy Dar... Read More

“You know, they don’t eat chicken in Iceland,” one scientist tells another in Judith Virta’s "Sheol Has Opened", a sci-fi mashup of Mayan, biblical, and other end-of-the-world prophecies. The paucity of poultry in Iceland has... Read More

Paul Tweiten, a forest management professional, wrote "Far Eastern Overexposure" to highlight the many challenges he faced in his first year overseeing a logging operation in the Russian Far East during the mid-1990s. Written in an... Read More

Alex is nervous about starting third grade. His brother, Ben, has warned him about the war between Mrs. Harper’s and Mrs. Sherman’s third graders—the great chocolate war. Ben tells Alex little else about the war, so Alex is left to... Read More