Vending Machine Press Issue #4

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Vending Machine Press in Poems, Short Stories

Dear Readers,

Although it is summer in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere we are preparing for winter. Therefore it is a time for introspection and reflection. All the stories in this issue deal with in some way or another a specific form of love and loss.

The writers selected for Issue Four are:

Archaeologist by Emma Fissenden
Untitled #3 by Mike Lafontaine
Make Believe by Tom Pescatore
April Sleeps in Velvet by Maria Abate
You Will Drink by Eric Boyd
Make Me Think Twice by Matthew J. Hall
It Always Rains by Tim Wilkinson
Two Poems by Mark Jackley

Click on the Submissions tab for guidelines to submit for future issues.

Issue Five Due Out August 1st, 2014.

Issue 4

Leaving Deneb by Jenya Doudareva

April 18, 2018

Two deer along the trail yesterday. First, they hesitated as I passed them – muscles tensed and ears on alert, but [...]
Overpass by Alison Hicks

September 2, 2016

Two days after my mother died I lay on the mat in the storefront studio down the street from the tracks. My mother appeared [...]
Cardboard City by Paul Tristram

October 1, 2014

The Winter winds blow cold and hard under the desolate railway bridge but at least he won’t be waking up to a policeman [...]
On Balancing On A Steel Girder by Jacob Aiello

April 1, 2015

Have you seen those photographs of the shirtless men balancing on steel girders thousands of feet above New York City? Yes. [...]
A Series of Controlled Explosions By David Haight

April 1, 2015

Evelyn sat at the kitchen table the tiny hands of her tiny body wrapped in supplication around her coffee cup and never once [...]
Everywhere by Lisa Harris

September 2, 2016

Everywhere: under rocks, edging out beneath rotten logs, on tendrils of Creeping Jenny on fingertips on your kiss already a [...]
On a Photograph Never Taken of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Friends, Manhattan, May 1, 1920 by Benjamin Goluboff

September 2, 2016

Fifth Avenue had been cleared and they drove Stanley Dell’s Buick twelve blocks down the parade route before a cop [...]
Our Man by Meg Pokrass

June 26, 2017

This week our stunted man hobbles around the house wearing fluffy, taped-together slippers. It appears as if he has broken a [...]
At Least by Jennifer Saunders

November 1, 2015

The pills that stop the crazy kill the words No mania, no voice An empty shell exterior A med muddled mind existing until [...]
Two Poems by Erin McIntosh

September 2, 2016

The wolves are at my heart Wolves are at my heart Again but I only continue To revolve around you like The earth to sun a [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #3

April 1, 2014

This issue we are proud to present, stories and poems from writers across the globe that explore the morbid longings and [...]
Crushed Ice by Mark Belair

January 4, 2016

The old, downtown fish shop stands closed, and not just for the day, it seems: the rolled-paper dispenser empty, the shiny [...]