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  • Snow Globe By Valerie Alexander Soundless thick white flakes tumble past the hotel room window
    Snow Globe By Valerie Alexander Soundless thick white flakes tumble past the hotel room window
  • The Coughing Hearse by Nidhi Singh “Ayn nahn?” I yelled, shaking the man staring out the train window.
    The Coughing Hearse by Nidhi Singh “Ayn nahn?” I yelled, shaking the man staring out the train window.
  • Lost Memories of Air by Deborah Bailey I like Grandma better dead. Even when she does things like this.
    Lost Memories of Air by Deborah Bailey I like Grandma better dead. Even when she does things like this.
  • Breaking the Machine by Aaron Emmel The fugitive stumbled once as the World Walkers closed in from behind.
    Breaking the Machine by Aaron Emmel The fugitive stumbled once as the World Walkers closed in from behind.
  • The Popsicle Truck Outside Urgent Care by Tory Hoke I was out to dinner when the pain slid up the scale from one to three
    The Popsicle Truck Outside Urgent Care by Tory Hoke I was out to dinner when the pain slid up the scale from one to three
  • Lost in Story by Stephen Willcott So much Luis Velasquez had informed me, by way of a note passed under my door during curfew.
    Lost in Story by Stephen Willcott So much Luis Velasquez had informed me, by way of a note passed under my door during curfew.

Interviews

Interview with Guest Fiction Editor Maureen Bowden

Maureen Bowden in an ex-patriate Liverpudlian living with her musician husband in North Wales, where they try to evade the onslaught of their children and grandchildren. She has had seventy-two poems and short stories accepted for publication.

Fiction

Snow Globe By Valerie Alexander

Soundless thick white flakes tumble past the hotel room window

Fiction

The Coughing Hearse by Nidhi Singh

“Ayn nahn?” I yelled, shaking the man staring out the train window.

Fiction

Lost Memories of Air by Deborah Bailey

I like Grandma better dead. Even when she does things like this.

Fiction

Breaking the Machine by Aaron Emmel

The fugitive stumbled once as the World Walkers closed in from behind.

Fiction

The Popsicle Truck Outside Urgent Care by Tory Hoke

I was out to dinner when the pain slid up the scale from one to three

Fiction

Lost in Story by Stephen Willcott

So much Luis Velasquez had informed me, by way of a note passed under my door during curfew.

Poetry

Poetry Introduction by John C. Mannone

It is John C Mannone's joy to begin serving as the poetry editor for Liquid Imagination.

Poetry

When His Brother Died by Jane Glasser

Narrated by Jane Glasser   When his brother died a silent scream— like wind-ripped leaves— swirled to an island across the sea. When his brother died his skin fell off— a wreath at his feet— and his bones danced a jiggy dirge beside an open grave. When his brother died his tears streamed a cataract [...]

Poetry

Surreal Things I Can’t Stand by Bruce Boston

crossing the alps with a happy elephant the beehive in the punchbowl babbage’s engine through the looking glass the collapsible virgin in stark disarray avocados shaped like cell phones the moon-landing in my bathtub the iridescent umbilical of my dead brother Editor’s Note: Cited from Computerhistory.org: Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic [...]

Poetry

Automaton by Jennifer Crow

I built you, my automaton, my mechanical lover, from shards of dream, the bronze patina of sorrow and the regret that gears have ground in my soul. I laid the iron skeleton of your form on a table in my laboratory, punched cards that would mimic emotion, so you will quote verse and verity to [...]

Poetry

The Gate of Horn by Megan Arkenberg

When I slept, those rare nights when I did sleep, he carried me to fantastic cities where the nights were carousels of wine and colored light, and the cathedrals had spires of red ice. He showed me ships with masts of bone and sails of tattered skin that sailed to countries unimaginable, where death was [...]

Poetry

Empty Branches and Dust Covered Children by Scott Hicks

Narrated by Scott Hicks   Where will all the people go when their wells run dry? For now their journey ends with bottled water and acts of kindness. The poor go without first. Fruit trees bear empty branches. Dust covered children still attend school. One thousand wells have dried up. How many more before migration [...]

Poetry

Ordinary Heroes by Wes Sims

Dawn yawned the day half-awake. Cardinals jostled the morning, circled the sunflower feeder. The sun pulled itself from treetops limb to limb. It glared at a murder of crows flocking to the aid of a brother disputing with the blue jays. The sky grimaced, a swarm of clouds from the north plotted to hide the [...]

Our next issue will be published on February 1, 2021. We will open submissions for poems and stories on November 1, 2020.

Liquid Imagination

Issue 31 Nov 2016

Stories

Snow Globe By Valerie Alexander

The Coughing Hearse by Nidhi Singh

Lost Memories of Air by Deborah Bailey

Breaking the Machine by Aaron Emmel

The Popsicle Truck Outside Urgent Care by Tory Hoke

Lost in Story by Stephen Willcott

Poems

Poetry Introduction by John C. Mannone

When His Brother Died by Jane Glasser

Surreal Things I Can’t Stand by Bruce Boston

Automaton by Jennifer Crow

The Gate of Horn by Megan Arkenberg

Empty Branches and Dust Covered Children by Scott Hicks

Ordinary Heroes by Wes Sims

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