POETRY lotus blossoms in the spring 7 jeans and a T-shirt 9 by Carl Miller Daniels Vaseline 11 Stabbed 12 by Wayne F. Burke Protection Racket by Till Gwinn 13 The Magic Leper by Stephen Philip Druce 14 I'd Like To Teach the World to Sing 15 Stop the World 16 by Kenneth Pobo Hands Holding the Void (Invisible Object) 17 Woman with Her Throat Cut 18 by Neil Ellman Why I'm not a Numbers Kinda Guy 19 Patience, Outburst, Daydream 20 by Mike Algera True religion by Dave Migman 23 How the Game Works by William Doreski 24 Plead by Devona Brown 26 The High Priestess/La Papesse (2) by Caitlin Johnson 27 FICTION The Worth of Love Letters by J.J. Steinfeld 31 Misogyny is Best Served Hot in Stella's Milano by Joseph Cruse 36 Beauty by Cody T. Luff 42 FLASH FICTION A Man of God by Karina Bush 49 Anything Can Grow by Marion de Booy Wentzien 51 Moloff by Bob Sharp 53 The Immortal by Jackson Kinder 55 FEATURED POET Michael E. Stone Action on screen 60 Apprentices 61 Changing lenses 62 Matter over Mind 63 Idiocy 64 It's Gone 65 FEATURED ARTIST Chris Castle 67 THOUGHT About Attraction 73 by T. Fenson