Author / Marissa Gomez
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Mythical Event, Space Fish, & When your characters turn against you – Christian McPherson
Christian McPherson is a poet, novelist, and cartoonist. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and their two kids. He has written a bunch of books including, The Cube People, Saving Her, and My Life in Pictures. His new book of poetry was released this fall from At Bay Press, Walking on the Beaches of…
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Flood and Drought – Haleigh Koppelberger
Sometimes there are rushing watersIdeas cascade downCrash onto the banks of reality The words come in a floodInk pouring over paperFingers rushing across a keyboard The world is all rapids and raging eddiesWild and uncontrollableA force to be reckoned with Sometimes there’s nothing but a dripDripDrip The words don’t come at allBlank paperUntouched keys The…
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Change is Good – Dee Norman
I don’t like the idea that things could, I’d much rather pretend I didn’t know that things would. The best of friends since 8th grade, do you get the picture? I was very supportive, and you Jack, starred as the titular. After graduation, you were looking at me funny, I’d hit your line to no…
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Widow – Mireia Birosta
Remembering you brought me back to those joyful days kissing on the old wood bench at la plaza. “I promise I will never leave you alone. Here and now we stand side by side as the lovers that we are.” I’m dying for a love that no longer exists; I keep creating fake illusions of…
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The Machine – Avah Dodson
At first, there was nothing. Then— A flash, a bright light, And the Machine was there Appearing out of nothing In the center of the valley. Its bright cords flickered And its dials slowed. The Machine looked around, Analyzing its surroundings. Where was it from? Why was it here? The Machine whirred and fizzed, And…
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Hoo Doo Interests – A. Whittenberg
MaMa Fontaine stirs gumbo in a big rusty pot telling me that joy is squashing a pregnant roach. She is a jailbird, an ex-lounge singer, and a literary agent (who won’t sign me). She wonders if it is just some quirk, or does insanity truly run parallel to our family. I count the sky’s stars…
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DOORWAYS TO TRAVEL THROUGH – Christian McCulloch
Christian McCulloch is a prolific Short Story writer with a background in Fine Art. He’s been an International teacher in British West Indies, Singapore (Principal), Japan and Hong Kong, also 10 years in Special Needs in UK. He now writes full time. He has written 10 novels, 12 novellas and many short stories (details if…
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Gone, Frost, & Sunset- Carolyn Adams
Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in the pages, and on the covers of Wend Poetry Journal, Steam Ticket, Apercus Quarterly, Calyx, and Kansas City Voices, among others. She has authored four chapbooks, with one being a collection of her collage art, entitled What Do You See? Select pieces of her collage art…
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Otter Ferrymen & Gangster Penguin – Igor Zusev
Igor Zusev is a creator of chaos art. After a lengthy career in tech and AV project management, Igor discovered art as a way to unwind and connect with himself…and it all started with adult coloring books, shortly followed by a gifted paint set. He dove into it with enthusiasm, often scouring thrift stores for…
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Chasing Rainbows – Van Lanigh
Van Lanigh creates figurative and landscape pieces. Her unique style is a reaction to abstractionism in an attempt to capture surrealistic yet casual reality. This is especially underlined by new forms and materials used in Van Lanigh’s artworks aimed to achieve the viewer’s resonance between visual effect and message of the painting. One of her…
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Transportation – George L. Stein
George L. Stein is a writer and photographer in the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area with an interest in monochrome, film and digital photography, urban and rural decay, architecture, street, and more generally, art photography and digital manipulation. His work has been published in Midwest Gothic, NUNUM, Montana Mouthful, Out/Cast, The Fredericksburg Literary and Art…
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Road – Başak Yirmibeşoğlu
Başak Yirmibeşoğlu is 21 years old Communication and Design student. She is passionate about journalism and she focuses on art, fashion, feminism, and other topics. She is also an angry feminist and enjoys making creepy collages about her activism. Her visual arts have appeared in Tint Journal, The Journal of Compressed Arts, Dovatales Journal, and…
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The Colors of Granada- Marlon Porter
Marlon Porter is a photographer from Toronto specializing in nature and fashion. He is also a lover of words and all things art. When not taking pictures you can find him cooking in a restaurant kitchen at night and attempting to travel the world one budget flight at a time. www.marlonporter.com
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6 & 7 – Emel Karakozak
‘Visuallity is my predominant side… I have been used photo language and I love this phrase. Maybe it does not contain letters, brushes and hammer blows but it has a scene and fiction in its own world… Everything is aimed to understand the whole. Life and death which described at the same time in my…
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Untitled – Shiela Denise Scott
Shiela Denise Scott, photographer, and designer who loves to challenge the mind with multiple directions of subjective art earned a Digital Photography Degree at Antonelli College. Her love of life delved into talent display of presenting design and capturing scenery. You may connect with her on social media: https://twitter.com/ShielaDenise https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiela-scott-294062136/
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Kyoto & Lanterns – Allison Stalberg
Allison Stalberg is from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and works as an independent writer, journalist, and photographer. Her photographic works have previously been published in literary journals such as Qwerty magazine.
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Canyon De Chelly Ruins & Sedona Scene – Jury S. Judge
Jury S. Judge is an internationally published artist, writer, poet, and cartoonist. Her ‘Astronomy Comedy’ cartoons are published in Lowell Observatory’s quarterly publication, ‘The Lowell Observer.’ She has been interviewed on the television news program, ‘NAZ Today’ for her work as a political cartoonist. Her artwork has been widely featured in over one hundred and…
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Vaporous Worlds – Alexey Adonin
Alexey Adonin is a Jerusalem-based abstract-surrealist artist. He graduated in 1993 from the State Art College named after A. Glebov (Minsk, Belarus), and in the same year, has immigrated to Israel. In his creative endeavor, Alexey mostly strives to get away from banal copying of reality, preferring to create one of his own, which somehow…
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Grounded & What I Carry – Carolyn Adams
Grounded I remove my shoes, lean back to watch the clouds converging. I miss cruising up there through vapor layers. I miss the sun, in blazes under a plane wing. Earthbound, I satisfy my distance hungers tracing a finch’s quick urges in the apple tree. The althea drops another spent blossom. A dandelion seed drifts…
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Going Home for Christmas / Going South- Christine Pennylegion
The train took us back in time, traveling from snow-capped trees, frozen rivers, ice like spears— journeying into a sunset which burst on our cloud-worn eyes, spring-like, barely remembered. Here, the waters streaked with white were coloured by the wind, not ice. Bushes unburied themselves. Cold-mantled trees bared their arms, stretched frozen fingers sunward, dared…
