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Fertile Ground by Sandra Spotts
The last of the day’s sun rays reached their fingers through the remaining clouds, resting on the newly turned black dirt in my father's garden. Smoke from the neighbor's burning leaves floated into the patch like incense. I watched as Daddy dug with his turning fork, unearthing a juicy worm already spotted by the robin loitering a few feet away. I wiggled my toes into the moist black soil until they disappeared, then wiggled them back to the surface. Sister sifted through the newly turned dirt

March 2025Issue 26: March 2025 & Table of Contents

The Golden Gate by D. L. Lang
From her steel that traveled from Pennsylvania to the people who voted to fund her construction, she stands as a testament to cooperation— what we might yet build from imagination. But the glory goes to those brave workers who dared build the impossible bridge. Day and night they labored for four years. They risked plummeting into dark waters so that generations might easier cross her silvery, glistening waves to this very day. She is the great steel handshake uniting the people of this regi

Who's the Lamb Now? by Joyce Hanewinkel
The sun creeps around the edges of my sunglasses and forces me to squint. I don’t even care because there is a coconut in my hand filled with an elixir of the islands and a little umbrella. I’m on a cruise to the Bahama’s where I will spend five glorious fun-filled days. We were given free drink tickets when we boarded and mine are safely in my pocket. I’m sporting short shorts, a tank top, tennis shoes, extremely long and very permed hair. After all, it is the ’90s and I’m in my early thirties

Fertile Ground by Sandra Spotts
The last of the day’s sun rays reached their fingers through the remaining clouds, resting on the newly turned black dirt in my father's garden. Smoke from the neighbor's burning leaves floated into the patch like incense. I watched as Daddy dug with his turning fork, unearthing a juicy worm already spotted by the robin loitering a few feet away. I wiggled my toes into the moist black soil until they disappeared, then wiggled them back to the surface. Sister sifted through the newly turned dirt

The Golden Gate by D. L. Lang
From her steel that traveled from Pennsylvania to the people who voted to fund her construction, she stands as a testament to cooperation— what we might yet build from imagination. But the glory goes to those brave workers who dared build the impossible bridge. Day and night they labored for four years. They risked plummeting into dark waters so that generations might easier cross her silvery, glistening waves to this very day. She is the great steel handshake uniting the people of this regi

Who's the Lamb Now? by Joyce Hanewinkel
The sun creeps around the edges of my sunglasses and forces me to squint. I don’t even care because there is a coconut in my hand filled with an elixir of the islands and a little umbrella. I’m on a cruise to the Bahama’s where I will spend five glorious fun-filled days. We were given free drink tickets when we boarded and mine are safely in my pocket. I’m sporting short shorts, a tank top, tennis shoes, extremely long and very permed hair. After all, it is the ’90s and I’m in my early thirties

Fertile Ground by Sandra Spotts
The last of the day’s sun rays reached their fingers through the remaining clouds, resting on the newly turned black dirt in my father's garden. Smoke from the neighbor's burning leaves floated into the patch like incense. I watched as Daddy dug with his turning fork, unearthing a juicy worm already spotted by the robin loitering a few feet away. I wiggled my toes into the moist black soil until they disappeared, then wiggled them back to the surface. Sister sifted through the newly turned dirt

In the Ancient Hills

Who's the Lamb Now?

Collected Poems

A Glass of Milk

Adrift

Temple of the Sacred Heart

The White Rose

Open Water

Savagery and Civilisation

River Dark

Under the Shadow of the Moon

if walls could talk

No Two Are A Perfect Two

Fertile Ground

MAKE UP SEX

Novel Lines

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