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  • When the Silvershade Blooms by Deborah L. Davitt
    When the Silvershade Blooms by Deborah L. Davitt
  • A Tune Played Coldly by A.L. Sirois
    A Tune Played Coldly by A.L. Sirois
  • Every Day is a Wake for Yesterday by Chris Lee Jones
    Every Day is a Wake for Yesterday by Chris Lee Jones
  • Cron is the Clock-Daemon by Bill Suboski
    Cron is the Clock-Daemon by Bill Suboski
  • Shadow and Flame by J.B. Toner
    Shadow and Flame by J.B. Toner
  • Annalise by David Waid
    Annalise by David Waid
  • Disjoined by Neptune’s Might by Valerie Lute
    Disjoined by Neptune’s Might by Valerie Lute

Poetry

Rain Dream by Seth Jani

Narrated by Seth Jani   I see strange constructs In the clouds. Beautiful holes In the immaculate body. A purple plane Disappearing into space. Old men say their brains die But their minds are loosed Like rivers. I can feel them charging The air like St. Elmo’s Fire. All those memories Darting for the nearest [...]

Poetry

Part of Façade of Gage Building by F. J. Bergmann

Narrated by F.J. Bergman             Cast iron relief             (lower north stairwell, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin)                      The operation to separate the Siamese or conjoined twins Jodie and Mary took place             in Manchester, England, in November 2000, after months of wrangling in the courts.             Mary died, as it was known [...]

Poetry

The Mask by Anna Cates

Narrated by Anna Cates   a poet hides behind the mask its gargoyle image framed in Greco columns interpreters of fate entrust the task to poets who hide behind the mask the truth is all we ever ask beyond the drama, goblins, and golems a poet hides behind the mask its gargoyle image framed in [...]

Poetry

Time Consuming by Ashley B. Davis

Narrated by Ashley B. Davis   I touch things to soak up their years. This hunger has become insatiable though; my local history is not enough anymore. Everything is too green, only a couple thousand years old. I need to go to Europe and touch the buildings there. Better yet, Greece. Egypt. But everything’s been [...]

Poetry

Mathematics by Les Wicks

Narrated by Les Wicks   Innumerate days, uncountable grass. Over Faro, North Carolina two hydrogen bombs were dropped and somehow didn’t detonate, 1961. Minot AFB, six cruise missiles went missing. Oops a lally! Those transport planners should have talked more to their clerks. Almost nothing happened. January 25, 1995 Mr. Yeltsin sobered up and was [...]

Poetry

swaying red lanterns by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

Narrated by Dafydd McKimm breezes pick up and the soft sound of rubbing paper, reminds tingting of the scratchy way her ah-ma             folds paper cranes                         when she’s lonely globes dangle             in the street against the night sky,                         plunging the darkness             with bioluminescence she fishes out a sweet, sticky dumpling from her soup, [...]

Fiction

When the Silvershade Blooms by Deborah L. Davitt

The first thing we learned was that dogs were useless.  At the first flickers of motion on the horizon, they barked, charging the perimeter of the habitat dome, but as soon as we got a firebird overhead, roaring, flames crackling along their eleven-meter wings?

Fiction

A Tune Played Coldly by A.L. Sirois

The car passed smoothly over the bridge into Pennsylvania, but Kendall Bradley, consumed by rage, barely noticed. All he knew was that he was only ten miles or so from her house now. The car would find its way, allowing his fury to simmer without distraction.

Fiction

Every Day is a Wake for Yesterday by Chris Lee Jones

At this moment, I care little about the wider world.  Beneath me, just a silken stroke away, lies the essence of all that I am.  He's inches from sleep, but fighting it.

Fiction

Cron is the Clock-Daemon by Bill Suboski

The clock has been in my family for three generations, handed down from father to eldest son. It is a mantel-piece, hand-wound, but no less elegant for its compactness and simplicity. And I alone will not pass it on, because I stopped winding it the day he died.

Fiction

Shadow and Flame by J.B. Toner

Wise men, indeed. It was I who taught the Star-Tongue to the mothers of their great-grandmothers; but, as always, the men stole the knowledge from the women. Stole it and misunderstood it: turned it into a secret code of magic and mathematics, rather than simply talking to the Stars as one intellect to another.

Fiction

Annalise by David Waid

Below, the night shadows of stovepipe chimneys stencil sloped and snow-clad rooftops. Overhead, an ocean of stars runs unbroken from one horizon to the other. A castle sits atop a hill in this venerable city and, across the ice-choked river, factories and steam locomotives crouch in their silent tracks and yards.

Fiction

Disjoined by Neptune’s Might by Valerie Lute

Funny, today didn't begin different than any of the innumerable days that passed since we entered this prison.

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 40 February 2019

Stories

When the Silvershade Blooms by Deborah L. Davitt

A Tune Played Coldly by A.L. Sirois

Every Day is a Wake for Yesterday by Chris Lee Jones

Cron is the Clock-Daemon by Bill Suboski

Shadow and Flame by J.B. Toner

Annalise by David Waid

Disjoined by Neptune’s Might by Valerie Lute

Poems

Rain Dream by Seth Jani

Part of Façade of Gage Building by F. J. Bergmann

The Mask by Anna Cates

Time Consuming by Ashley B. Davis

Mathematics by Les Wicks

swaying red lanterns by D.A. Xiaolin Spires

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