Fiction
Perry Mc Daid is guest fiction editor
Perry McDaid: Loving words from primary school, Perry McDaid BSc(Hons), DipLCW, DMISP, began his adventures in the library before he hit double figures. Trying to reproduce them came shortly afterwards, and he pursued the hobby through college. With the exception of the first couple of years of his career in the civil service in various [...]
Literary Fiction
Wooden Cane by Sarena Ulibarri
Pearl felt herself fall in slow motion. She saw the floor getting closer, felt the rush of air against her skin like a breeze. She saw her own hand, almost as a separate object, grasping toward the edge of the nearest table. When she hit the floor, the pain was a dull ache in her hip that cracked and oozed like egg white through her nerves.
Literary Fiction
Lessons Nadine Learns by Johanna Miklós
“You piece o’ shit! That’s my Sunday dress!” Nadine punched the clumsy football thrower on the nose, kicked him in the gut, and raced home to scrub out the offensive stain.
Literary Fiction
Did I lie when I told Jacqui and her flatmate Scotty I could surf? I imagined it as clear as a glassy Balinese reef break: dropping down that glistening face, springing to my feet, a sweeping bottom turn, surfing into the endless nirvana pipeline.
Speculative Fiction
‘You must never tell anyone, Moirhan.’ She always called me that daft name. Everyone else called me Marianne. ‘You and I are Bean Sidhe: women of the Sidhe, daughters of the Goddess,’ she glanced again at the statue, ‘whatever men choose to call her.’
Interviews
Interview with the Voice of LI, Bob Eccles
"The Editing Process - a sample" as told by Bob Eccles 1) Where do your ideas for horror stories come from? Most come from everyday life. I’ve gotten story ideas standing in the checkout line at the supermarket, returning bottles for deposits, getting money out of the ATM, seeing makeshift memorials along the roadside, even [...]
Speculative Fiction
Mortar Attack by Adam Armstrong
"What's it like?" "What is 'what' like?" "Being dead," she asked him. Her eyes were huge this close; staring into the deep wells, he felt he could see to the bottom of her essence.
Fiction
Traveler’s Recollection by Scott Birrenkott
Something wet was soaking Amy's shoulder. She sprang up and looked around, swiping at the liquid with her hand. Her head hurt and her whole body was numb but the translucent puddle was not coming from her, it was not blood.
Flash
Poem About The Moon by Bill Tyrell
The planet shuddered as a bolt of lightning hit the shadowy pyramid of Albor Tholus, far in the distance; a common occurrence, the two didn’t even flinch. The white burst illuminated the red glory of the planet for the briefest of moments: the mountains, the canyons, the numerous dwellings scattered between the uninhabitable terrains.
Poetry
Midnight Mainstream by J. Rohr
Narrated by J. Rohr Attention. Please take note of the exits. There are none. Enjoy the lack of chance As FDR comes rolling in, a werewolf genocide in a wheelchair, flanked by nude nuns with shotguns from a willing hobo. (Dear god no!) Yaphet Kotto with his Oscar pimps across the lawn to slap [...]
Poetry
The Gods, Fallen by Marge Simon
Your bathtubs always need scrubbing, the dark rings, a reminder of your day.
Poetry
Slipped Out of Her Jeans by Michael Wells
Do not think the sky is blue in jeans on its own account. Hold up in the atmosphere whispering away clouds— these are extremes that push back the rain. These are the litmus test that decides the political fortunes of of agro-business. Someone is micro-managing the rain. There have been conspiracy theories to debunk. [...]
Flash
Losing Hope by Franklin Charles Murdock
I lost Hope in the middle of this shopping mall when she was four years old.
Flash
It was all over the Sunday morning news. They had recovered a girl who had been kidnapped six years ago.
Flash
Good as New by Shane D. Rhinewald
When his daughter came home with her first hole, Martin plugged it with gauze and said, “School can be cruel sometimes, darling.” After, they shared a pizza and watched Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which had long been her favorite.