Vending Machine Press Issue #8

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Vending Machine Press in Flash Fiction, Poems, Short Stories

The very fine writers for Issue 8 are:

Dying To Leave By Ashlie Allen
French Press by Hannah White
Grateful Mother by Kayla Pongrac
Two Poems by Carly Weiser
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva
Part of the Same Being by Nina Ficenec
Two Poems by Helen Picard
Three Poems by Jacqueline Markowski
Diner Hearts by Benjamin Blake
A Frosty Laburnum Morning While Listening To Duck Stab! by David R Miller
What She is Made Of by Vincent Ainoke

Issue 9 is due out on April 1st, 2015.

Regards,
Michael Lafontaine
Editor-In-Chief
Vending Machine Press

Issue 8

San Juans by Dede Cummings

April 1, 2015

From here she can see no islands, only a mountain beyond water mostly purple-black and defying the orange-spreading sky. [...]
On The Lace Lichen Trail She Mourns A Tree After A Week Of Storms by Lisa Meckel

December 10, 2016

Off the trail, another great pine massacred by wind and rain. This great gray-chested body felled, no longer a giant against [...]
What’s In A Name? by Audrey Wick

December 28, 2016

She told me she thought about naming me Annabel Lee, after the famous female in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Instead, she named [...]
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 [...]
The Wall of Hearts Desire by Donna Lynn Marsh

February 5, 2017

I always wanted a wall. Actually, I wanted four. They hold roofs really well and who among us doesn’t want a roof over [...]
Coffee Stains by Christina Murphy

December 1, 2013

Carrying a Starbucks Venti with double cream down the steps, he trips, hits his head, and the coffee spills out into a small [...]
Milk Crates by Melanie Tague

April 1, 2014

I watched you once sitting on the bench by the courthouse, staring at the ground and I whispered that you were missing the [...]
Unrecovered Poem by Samantha Madway

September 2, 2016

Rooms filthy from all the sorrow. Trashcans filled with tissues filled with snot. Dark circles dyed under every eye. Dead [...]
Innocent and Smirky by Paul Beckham

October 23, 2017

My mother always stressed good deeds but my other relatives seemed oblivious to the concept. I was required to do at least [...]
A Photograph as a Photograph as is by Sarah Arantza Amador

April 13, 2017

Erika and I sit on a bench in front of the high school. I am in my sunglasses in the heat of the day, the day that I am [...]
Welcome to Vending Machine Press First Birthday Issue #7

December 1, 2014

Photo by Johannes Huwe Dear Readers, Welcome to Issue 7 of Vending Machine Press. This is a special issue as it is our First [...]
A Victory by Raphael Maurice

November 22, 2018

The ocean was black near the shore and farther out a storm was massing in the sky. He sat, looking out over the water, [...]