COLUMNS

Gaze
Irena Ioannou on science, religion and the afterlife, and the freedom of debate

Head Above Water
Tim Clark on the phenomenon that is Space Force and becoming a Guardian of the Galaxy

Soapbox
Mike Hembury on a future beyond the system and how resistance is hope

Letters from Berlin
Annie Mark-Westfall on pandemic emotions and waiting for normal life to be reborn

The Book Doctor
Caroline Donahue on embracing the unknown as a writer and letting go of perfectionism
FICTION

Kurt Newton
Kurt Newton’s short story ‘The Nature Photographer’

Scott D. Vander Ploeg
Scott D. Vander Ploeg’s short story ‘Space Coasting’

mr oCean
mr oCean’s flash fiction story ‘A Drop from the Ocean’
CENTER STAGE
SPOKEN WORD

Center Stage
Center Stage celebrates the work of poet Yamini Pathak

Gaby Bila
Lady Gaby’s spoken word performance of her poem ‘At Death (in Romania)
POETRY

Brittney Corrigan
Brittney Corrigan’s poems ‘The Last Two Northern White Rhinos Discuss the Birds and the Bees’, ‘Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit’, and ‘Orion in the Oregon Outback’

Dotty LeMieux
Dotty LeMieux’s poem ‘Sister Moon’

GTimothy Gordan
GTimothy Gordan’s poems ‘PALE FIRES I & PALE FIRES II’ and ‘EMPTY HEAVEN, EMPTY EARTH’

Joseph Farina
Joseph Farina’s poems ‘daring of spirits’, ‘invocation’, and ‘epiphany under polaris’

Jaime Speed
Jaime Speed’s poem ‘Disappear to chase trains’

Hiba Heba
Hiba Heba’s poems ‘A postcard from my mother who met death in the most startling way’, ‘Asylum’, and ‘Prelude’

Marianne Peel
Marianne Peel’s poem ‘I Played Among the Talking Trees’

Sherre Vernon
Sherre Vernon’s poem ‘Where the Veil is Thin’
POETRY REVIEWS

Open Your Eyes Review
Mike Hembury’s review of the poetry anthology ‘Open Your Eyes’ edited by Vinita Agrawal

‘Grief Bacon’ review
Review of the poetry collection ‘Grief Bacon’ by CL Bledsoe
QUARANTINE COMFORTS
Nina Hynes’s new single ‘Go’ – go buy and support her on Bandcamp
‘Growler Rising’ by Dee Mulrooney