Tag: Issue 91

  • The Garnet Key

    by Jason Gallagher in Issue 91, August 2018 It was on Semid’s eighteenth birthday that his grandmother gave him the key. They were on the back patio. A wooden fence, turned a dull grey and warped with age, separated their little sanctuary from the other families crowded in the cluster of housing units. The high…

  • Still Ciela

    by Lynn Rushlau in Issue 91, August 2019 Groaning, I dropped the last of the boxes atop the stack in the alley and glanced at the sun. Winced and looked away, blinded. Nearly dusk. I needed to leave. The sun would drop under the horizon soon, and I knew better than to go out past…

  • Jack Eternal—A Review THE LAY OF OLD HEX: SPECTRAL BALLADS & WEIRD JACK TALES by Adam Bolivar

    by Anthony Perconti in Issue 91. August 2019 2019I first heard of Adam Bolivar in the wonderful Clark Ashton Smith documentary, The Emperor of Dreams.  Prior to watching this documentary, it was unbeknownst to me that in California, there is a long standing tradition of poets producing works in the Romantic style. George Sterling, active during…