CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘BAG FOR LIFE’ BY AARON FARRELL
Bag for Life Aaron Farrell Inside the Aldi’s Bag for Life – either a sadistic joke, as this plastic will probably end a life, or just a plain lie as nothing is for life apart from the craving for something that lasts for life – is my...
CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘REALIGNMENT’ BY ADAM NEAL
Realignment Adam Neal I float face first into obscurity, Unknowing where I’m supposed to be. Holding conversations with one hand, Told him to get the round in. Told me to get around it. Through it. Internal incandescence, Iterations of a bygone...
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, TOO’ BY CON CHAPMAN
Sense and Sensibility, Too Con Chapman When they broke up, Marcie moved out of the north-facing apartment on Beacon Street and rented a place on the back side of the Hill, again too dark to cure her of the winter blues that ailed her, he...
CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘PATIENCE’ BY RC deWinter
Patience RC deWinter some days nothing works but the medulla your heart beats you breathe and it feels like an accomplishment yet there is an elegance in the silence of the dark as if the world is about to reveal a secret i am listening RC deWinter’s...
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘VINTAGE FINDS, FREE, THIS SATURDAY’ BY LOGAN MALONE
Posted: Vintage Finds, Free, This Saturday Logan Malone Grandma stuck it out for two years and ten rounds of chemo before cancer won. Ten years before her, Grandpa had had a heart attack in his office and was dead within ten minutes. They’d spent their...
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘THE FLIES AT THE POOL IN DC’ BY DOUGLAS MACDONALD
The Flies at the Pool in DC Douglas Macdonald Through the hedge, a gleam of azure. Beyond the black iron railings the pool glistened like a layer of sky ripped out and spread before us like a blanket at a picnic. Me and Avril. No...
CLASSIFIED POETRY: ‘NIPPLES’ BY BELAYIA
Nipples Belayia what’s the difference between yours and mine why must mine be censored why can you be topless on sunny afternoons without consequence whereas i cannot even go braless beneath a jumper without being subject to hungry eyes what makes yours so...
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘THE BROWN LEATHER BRIEFCASE’ BY DAVID ROWLANDSON
The Brown Leather Briefcase David Rowlandson It was a peasouper out on the streets of Berlin. The fluorescent strip lights in the Atomic Research Laboratory burnt bright that 1948 winter’s evening. Karl Shultz, archive clerk, looked at the office clock...
CLASSIFIED ARTWORK: ‘HOP PURR’ BY DIGGER DEEKY
Hop Purr Digger Deeky Bio: Merry-Do-Well
CLASSIFIED FICTION: ‘WORKS UNIT’ BY ADAM MARKS
Works Unit Adam Marks RAF Welford is an active Royal Air Force station in Berkshire, England, located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Newbury; about 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of London. Opened in March 1943, it was used during the...