COLUMNS
Soapbox
Mike Hembury on power to the people and the urgent change needed to stop climate disaster
Head Above Water
Tim Clark on the ghosts he has encountered in his travels though small-town America
Gaze
Irena Ioannou on the murder of Mahsa Amini and the historical precedent of the witchhunts of old
Let’s Do Luddism
Cory Massaro on the unpublicized ‘feminicide’ cases around the world and proactive measures for women’s rights movements
Rise
Aishwarya Vardhana on dharma and its place in our social movements and the spiritual deficit of the American left
Center Stage
CENTER STAGE celebrates the work and inspirations of poet Bruce Lowry
Guest Column
Hart Vetter on midlife choices and an unforgettable daring deed of sky-diving
From the Inside
Ryan M. Moser on the gift of connection with loved ones though technology from behind bars
Jury’s Jukebox
The Jury’s Jukebox aka Tim Clark presents songs for you to vote on on the theme of SPIRIT
Reflections on Parenting
Deborah Owen-Sohocki on encouraging hope in our children in these uncertain times
6 YEARS OF THE WILD WORD
FICTION
Cory Massaro
Cory Massaro’s flash fiction story ‘Instructions for the Banishment of a Shaidan, or Feral Self-Driving Car’
Hart Vetter
Hart Vetter’s flash fiction story ‘A Murder in Spirit’
Jody padumachitta Goch
Jody padumachitta Goch’s flash fiction story ‘A Letter to My Younger Self’
John Paul Caponigro
John Paul Caponigro’s flash fiction story ‘Eye’
Joyce Bingham
Joyce Bingham’s flash fiction story ‘Away’
Larry Brown
Larry Brown’s flash fiction story ‘SYD’
Laura Theis
Laura Theis’s flash fiction story ‘Meeting The Family’
Rebecca Klassen
Rebecca Klassen’s flash fiction story ‘Foal’
Wiebo Grobler
Wiebo Grobler’s flash fiction story ‘A Gift Horse’
William Torphy
William Torphy’s flash fiction story ‘THE ABALONE DIVER’
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming’s flash fiction story ‘Fengshui’
POETRY
Alexandra Fössinger
Alexandra Fössinger’s poem ‘Negative’
Allegra Jostad Silberstein
Allegra Jostad Silberstein’s poem ‘Rapture’
Andrew Senior
Andrew Senior’s poem ‘Motorway Dream’
Ann Iverson
Ann Iverson’s poems ‘Cat Ghost’, ‘At the Counter Paying Bills’, and ‘Again, His Ghost’
Anne Graue
Anne Graue’s poem ‘My mother’s ghost gestures toward the brighter-than-orange hibiscus’
Bryan Franco
Bryan Franco’s poem ‘Humidor’
Claudia M. Reder
Claudia M. Reder’s poem ‘Listen’
Daniel Schulz
Daniel Schulz’s poem ‘Liberty’
Joe Cottonwood
Joe Cottonwood’s poem ‘Ghosts of every dog’
Ken Cathers
Ken Cathers’s poems ‘you can never’, ‘one never’ and ‘second chance’
Laura Theis
Laura Theis’s poems ‘ghost girl’ and ‘welcome and’
Matt Schroeder
Matt Schroeder’s poem ‘o small god’
Patrick Cabello Hansel
Patrick Cabello Hansel’s poem ‘THAT WINTER’
Stephen Mead
Stephen Mead’s poem ‘The Housekeeper’s Work Ethic’
Tazeen Fatma
Tazeen Fatma’s poem ‘Do souls have a dress too?’
Wayne Lee
Wayne Lee’s poems ‘On the Floor of the Sky’, ‘Shimmer’, and ‘The Clearing’
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
WHAT WE LOVE
Nina Hynes song ‘Looking For You’ from her new album ZAP! Buy here.
‘Growler Rising’ by Dee Mulrooney
Our editor Kusi Okamura on the Secret Library podcast on the need for writers over 40
Music online with Mick Hembury and Jenka Bühler
Yin Yoga in your sitting room with Erinbell Fanore
Rufus Coates & Jess Smith’s ‘Modern Day Cathedral’
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