Featured Writers

Prose

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Angela Text Curse Amy Hale Auker OFWC 2012 3rd Place:   Two Dishes of Very Nice Salad Javed Baloch (Leviathan) The God Tree A God Dances Through Me Perdition Brian Barbeito Osho Rajneesh: Some feet of clay are okay Fabrics Jacob Easton Ellis (of Cowboys, Indians, and Colombians) How The Globalists Ruined My Summer Vacation Strawberry Blizzards and the Holy Ghost Damascus or Bust Nascent Talk with the Gypsy Cath Barton Not a Good Start to the Weekend Heading for Lake Titicaca Barry Basden Three Short Pieces Paul Beckman Argyle Nights Brittany Beltram Emotional Geography Deboleena Bose Hazel Eyes Salvatore Buttaci Séance Hazy, Hot, and Humid Adam Byatt The Sins of the Father Chocolate Biscuits Comic Superhero CJT Tears of Regret Callan Checking Out Fade to Black The Apparatus The Littlest Truck Driver Attack of the Fur The Crow and the Eyeball Bolton Carley Crazy Is As Crazy Does HoW addiction got me here Jeanette Cheezum Little Black Dress What if...? Underground Hope Miss Emma Blake Cooper Turning a Corner Elliott Cox I Lean on Jim Lightning Strikes Teresa Cortez The Green Dress Bryan Curtis Going Out J.K. Davies Foot & Mouth Sandra Davies Theme for a Summer Place Curve of Early Learning Arc of Adaptation Best Laid Plans 'From battle and murder, and from sudden death' Edward Dean The Road Sam's Club Bob Boyce (I'll Be Around) Joey Delgado Nightstands Paul de Denus Murderer's Road The Amber Sea Going to Find Out on Christmas Morning The Attraction Dark Black I Suspect... Rod Drake The Murder Game Kim Farleigh Condemned Laz Farrell A July Morning Bill Floyd Performance Art Misplaced Horror Novels and Real Terror Distant Sighting Cataclysm Anti-Madonna (or Even Rough Beasts Have Mothers) OFWC 2012 2nd Place:   Obsolete Medium Joe Gensle Peace Under the Olive Branch Joe Gensle's "The Battery" Prey of a Grey Panther j guevara Bro Liz Haigh Sliding Jared Handley Segue Mike Handley Time to Go Jim Harrington He Hoped She'd Come Around T.R. Healy Catch of the Day Kyle Hemmings How the D Train Saved Me Cab Fare One Morning

Nicole E. Hirschi The Life of This Writer Home Jamie Hogan Hope Finds Travis The Rumor of Oregon Rich Ives Flash Group: Confessional, Consequence, et al. Grey Johnson Staying True to Her Requiring a Swift and Precise Adjustment A Body of Water Invites All Things All the Reasons Lucinda Kempe East Blue Portrait German River A.J. Kirby Coffin Cut Len Kuntz Thunder Comes Around Bill Lapham The Churn You Have Your Drones... Any Second Stonehenge Turner, Raymond K. Appomattox Exodus An Homage to Trumbo The Power of Her Words OFWC 2012 1st Place:   You Shall Be My Brother Nukes Suvi Mahonen Bobby Donal Mahoney Behind the Barn with Carol Ann Back Then and Write Now Paddy Murphy's Wake Mike Fitzgibbons and His Morning Paper Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly in 1947 A Disgusting Thing The Bully, the Psychopath, Libby and Lorraine George Masters The Monster Peter McNiff Anger Management The Dogs of San Francisco Robert Morschel (Mulled Vine) She Eric Müller Debut Matthew Müller The Girl from the Video Store Jelena Vencl Ohlrogge Doomsday Jenny Picciotto Digging Up the Past Vivian Faith Prescott A Dead Woman's Shoes In My Father's Cabin Doubt Sam Raddon The Soul Brad Rose Clown Art Farida Samekhanova Three Flash Fictions John Sheirer One Bite Gita M. Smith Tale of a Salamander The Late Show at the Argo Diplomatic Relations The Tractor Thief's Jacket Luck Travis Smith Price to Be Paid Michael J. Solender Never to Call Your Name Edward Strand Along the Meridian Mongrel Eric Suhem The Balloon Fiend Thomas Sullivan Meeting the Suburban Gangbanger Harris Tobias Fill 'er Up Grandma Bixby's Teeth A Taste for Music The Bay It Buzz A Fish Story The Travel Agent Crown of Thorns The Blob-A Memoir The Element of Ritual Blang! A Chanukah Story The Finger Otto & the Cloth Baby The Samaritan Goldilocks: The Epilogue Nathaniel Tower Skydivers and Pornographers Patrick Trotti Green with Envy Toby Tucker Hecht Descent J.O. Vaughn Eidolon Ephemera JULIANNA ~ MAY 2008 Townsend Walker Dog Shot Mike Whitney Looking Ahead at the Past... Janet Yung Emily at the Piano

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Poetry

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Debbi Antebi Chasing Time Diana E. Backhouse My Thingamajig Gary Beck Songs of a Clerk Mike Berger Cutting Run Away Gary Carson The Weather of Railroads Thunderstorm Seen As an Event of the Central Nervous System Leviticus Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal Half Blind At This Hour Flowers for Her CJT Death Knows No Mercy The Battle for Time Sandra Davies A Stone for Effie Circle of Celebration Ed Dean The Dark Side of 14 Vegas Holly Day This Man Breathless Lullaby Peach Armageddon, Marilyn-Style I Know She Loved Me Paul de Denus This Old House On Blue Paper Yard Sale A Cop Can Make You Twitchy Tossing Cards William Doreski Lyra, Cygnus, Libra, Scorpius Tossing Your Room Magic Easy to Believe Karyn Eisler Kiddie Cocktail all inKlusive OM Neil Ellman Four Ekphrastic Poems (1) Four Ekphrastic Poems (2) Joseph Farley Chinatown to Chinatown Working in the Crematorium In the Dark Hours Mike Finley Toothbrush Kansas & Arkansas Dukkha Bill Floyd Plague Clock Ricky Garni Appled Roast It's Hard Reading George Eliot Today Howie Good Imaginary Crimes Mitch Grabois Tossing the I Ching He's Hardly a Robin He'd Never Met a Skinhead Hater Five Poems John Grey Sudden Dust Storm On the Death of Luella The Drumming of the Eternal Invaders, The Hooker with the Rose Tattoo, and Chips Almost Cashed In The Sounds of January Three Poems Kenneth P. Gurney Surrender Half-Past Middle Age Grief First November Tuesday We Took a Slow Walk to Paris Usually

A.J. Huffman A Different Kind of Angel Learning to Choose Exile Into the Locked Box of Unbeing Feathers and Dynamite The Sense of the Serpent Beaches of Isolation Watching a Waving That Might Be a Drowning Ablutophile Stopping for Tea 3 Stages Past Basic Rich Ives Poetry Group 5-10 Embalming Clouds, Pocket Full of Wings, et al. Rusty Kjarvik Another worldview Northern mind Lonesome day of movement I’ve been taken, not today. If I could speak... Steve Klepetar Embassy It's No Surprise I have melted the gold The Other Face When Is the World Not Entirely There? The Last Cowboy Bill Lapham Steady Abigale Louise LeCavalier Isolate A Whole Hole The Simple Life Donal Mahoney Crackling Again In Memphis On Business Father Spoke in Code That's Our Song Back When Thomas Michael McDade Rattle Wishes Highballs Hal O'Leary Happiness Vivian Faith Prescott A Dead Woman's Shoes In My Father's Cabin Doubt Joseph Robert Deathcycle I'm Happy The Good Blow Hard Irritable Bastard Syndrome Altar in a Cornfield Brad Rose Arrow of Time April Salzano Four Poems including: The Road to Back Road, Incoming Freshmen, Dinner with Freud, and Riding a Dead Horse Gita M. Smith Tonton Macoute Shelby Stephenson "I rise because you sink" "I say I'm always wanting you" "I want to hold your hand" Leilanie Stewart A Faraday Cage will keep you safe Thou dost protest too much Life is a-changing Long Haul Show, Not Tell Ripe Fruit Stephen Stribbell A Halo of Flies Harris Tobias Time Traveler Three Poems Outside My Window Stephen Torelli The Ironic Garden Theresa Vitale Three Brief Poems

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MDJB

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Michael D. Brown
Manifest Destiny
Confluence
Unobserved
Views
Timepiece
Micro-Fiction Comics
Equation
Critters
These Shoes
52 Pick-Up
The MuDJoB Story
Don't Open 'til Christmas
It Takes a Village
Five Fictions: Sparsely Furnished Dream, Uncanny, Twilight Weekends & Whistling, Mood Indigo, Slipstream

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