Editorial
CONTEST WINNER: THE PROMISE by Michelle Bassett
She promised.
I believed her.
FALL 2020 WRITING CONTEST PHOTO
Write a story or a poem inspired by this photo
BIG SUR by Seamus O'Connor
Excerpt from “Bitter Oranges”
THERE STOOD A COTTAGE by Deitz Kracker
There Stood a Cottage
Its pathway strewn with pine
BIRTHDAY PARTY by Marj Charlier
… I’m not sorry. I had to get out.
(Excerpt from a novel-in-progress)
SOON TO BE GONE by Chuck Nunes
… many old barns and stock pens can be seen along the roadside
RAYMONDE by Mathias Freese
I observe how I have withered
(Editor’s Note: Story content may be disturbing)
IT'S IN THE NAME by JoLynne Buehring
No one is allowed to skip a turn on the dance floor
KIRBY GIRLS by Lynne Spreen
Excerpt from “Middle-Aged Crazy: Short Stories of Midlife and Beyond”
BLIND DATE by GP Berns
When you’re short
Cash for gas
THERE WAS A TIME by Greg Porterfield
One of my amateur thrills in life is finding a typo
THE ARTISTIC SOUL by Howard Feigenbaum
I discovered my artistic soul
THE BEGINNING FROM THE END by Judie Maré
… animal babies burst to life …
GRATEFUL FOR THE COLOR BLUE by Ellyn Wolfe
Memoir excerpt
THE DUKE OF SEVENTH STREET (Part 2) by Judith Fabris
The temperature from the lights ringside must have reached 120 degrees
COVER by Ellyn Wolfe
Straitjackets Magazine Cover Summer 2020