Dedicated to the loving memory of Pat McLaughlin
​(6th December 1944 - 28th April 2026 )
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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Monument to a Failed Relationship
​Terry Holland 

Yard Sale, Furniture and Appliances, May 27-28, 2026
Bradley David Waters​

Dendrochronology of Scars
Anne Walters

Ice cream
​Cath Schikkerling

Instructions to a Young Child When Grandmom Burns Your Arm
​LM Fontanes

How to Cook Lamb When All You Can Think Of Is Death
Linda M. Bayley

Mothered
El Johnson

Dying to See Oliver
Angela Joynes

Ophelia
Karina Longo

Knotweed
Dawn Rhodes-Shaw

You Haunt My House
​ Holly Taylor

Those Two Fucks
Wendy Dossett

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Issue 9 - Summer 2026

Cover: Rashan Speller

Readers:
Hilary Ayshford
Joyce Bingham
Poetry Editor : Katrina Moinet
Prose Editor : Marie-Louise McGuinness
EIC: Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos