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Familiar Stranger by Eva-Marie Sher

The crow on the horizon you see in the eyes of the Trappist… from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford I travel the grief of my ancestors [...]

September 2, 2016

Quartet for Winds and other poems by Aaron Brame

January 12, 2017

Quartet for Winds I. My mother birthed me in a skyscraper, named me after the largest city known to the world. Made me a [...]
First Time In Paradise? by Gary Berg

December 1, 2014

It was still dark when he pulled out of the truck stop and headed up Highway 99 to Chico, a toothpick out the side of his [...]
Pitiful by Jeffrey Zable

May 29, 2016

Driving home in a cold, pouring rain I spot this guy limping along in the street completely barefoot, wearing only a t-shirt [...]
Remembrance Day by Bradley Sides

October 11, 2017

I’m first in line for Remembrance Day. I’ve been here since midnight. The announcement never said what time the gates [...]
Flesh and Blood by Stuart Snelson

August 1, 2014

They would only be staying one night, of that he had been assured. He didn’t begrudge them their visit, at such short [...]
Toxic Shock by Alex Creece

May 29, 2016

First Aid 1.01: do not remove an embedded object yourself. Even after the obligatory hospital visit, I was never fully [...]
Three Poems by Bennett Allen

November 1, 2015

Losing My Edge What’s it like to be a gay warden? Sorry, deputy warden I want to ask him but don’t He [...]
How to Survive Heartbreak and other poems by Courtney LeBlanc

July 16, 2017

Acknowledge the wrecking ball in your chest, the slow heaving back and forth as it crashes against your heart. Brush your [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #17

December 10, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 17 are: Crying in Cars With Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy Three [...]
Duct-Taped Wedding Bells by Grace Montgomery

December 1, 2014

I haven’t told you I’ve been sleeping on the floor the past six nights in a row. It’s probably because three pages of [...]
Two Poems by Michelle Watters

August 1, 2015

moon goddess moonlights as a suburban housewife she could be drawing down the moon but instead she loads the dishwasher [...]
Confessions of a Lunch Thief by Allie Marini Batts

December 1, 2013

I’m just like any other kind of criminal. I started small. In kindergarten. My life of crime can be traced back to a [...]