Odysseus on the War Train
by Rose Lemberg
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Guest Editorial
Dear Cthulhu
Fiction
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(as told to Patrick Thomas)
by Joanne Steinwachs
and the Singing Fish
by Marissa K. Lingen
by Nye Joell Hardy
by Alexandra MacKenzie
by Camille Alexa
Sang Out My Name
by Ken Scholes
Odysseus on the War Train
by Rose Lemberg
Side Show Sally
by Tracie McBride
Hives
by Elizabeth Penrose
3 Poems Called Cosmic
by JM McDermott
Think
by Suzanne Sykora
Pavlov's Best Friend
by Kristine Ong Muslim
Short Form Set:
Shears,
by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
Two Haiku,
by Francis W. Alexander
LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS,
by Kendall Evans
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My hero, when you left Penelope did you
imagine never stepping off this train? Its every wagon
a Trojan horse that carries soldiers far from home
and every Trojan horse a coffin. You would seek
adventure, but your paramours are rotting
like empty grain–stalks in deserted fields and skulls
of babies smashed against the walls and husbands rotting
in battlefields – you too were eager to depart.
She will remake, you say, the tapestry and bring you home
and wash your feet and make your bed again – but she unravels
your roads each night. Unmakes the language, spreads
the shroud of silence over you, and prays you never
return.
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