caroline ganci patterson half of the story i was telling had a moral about perversion, but i leave that part out for the saccharine tongue lickers. i say to my mother, the price of gas on the...
“Ceremony” Acrylic on 10 x 10 cradled wood panel “Story Time” Acrylic on 9×12 cradled wood panel Shagufta Mulla is the art editor of Peatsmoke Journal, a poet, and a...
Nolan Capps 2024 Fiction Spring Contest Runner Up March 2010, Camp Lejeune, NC— When I was a new infantryman in First Battalion, Eighth Regiment, I lived in a barracks with about a hundred other...
2024 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Idaho Wolves by Kath Richards 2024 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner The Lyric Ear by Megan J. Arlett 2024 Spring Poetry Contest Winner self-portrait with three...
“Beatrice Dominguez” Cold wax and oil on canvas Cold wax and oil are the main techniques that MariaTeresa Ortiz-Naretto utilizes in her artworks. Either on canvas or on paper, the matter...
Megan J. Arlett 2024 Nonfiction Spring Contest Winner As a child during The Blitz, my grandfather clambered over the debris of collapsed houses in Gravesend, Kent. He hit capsules of dynamite with a...
Dear readers, Welcome! Our team is thrilled to share our Spring 2024 Contest issue with you. This is my third year as a member of phoebe — I first joined as a fiction reader, then as Managing...
“Abstract Waterfall” Oil Kelly Haneklau is a free-lance multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in oil and acrylic. Her subject matter ranges from abstract, still life realism,...
Alison Granucci When out of the great cosmos of all creation a bird arrives as the new shape of your mother returning from the dead, tell me, what does it not have to teach about the nature...
