We are proud to present
Issue Twelve: Tricks and Treats
of No Contact
Nearby Bushes / A House With No Walls
by Akhim Alexis
The old lady with one eye, walked up from the basement
Which was not a basement, but a grave
Porch Song
by Jack B. Bedell
the old people tell it, oak branches
started scratching frottoir sounds
around the bone yard
Elegy for a Field of Pumpkins, November 3rd
by J.R. Allen
How slow the rot of neglect—
orange fading to palest off-white
Getting to Know You
by Lauren Swift
I read that you can offer strawberry Fanta
to kind ghosts—is it like this with monsters, too
Old Ghosts
by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
We had reasons of our own that keep
Us bound. That kept us here, root tangled