ISSUE 26
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Arabella Griffett
A Heart of Forgiveness
1890 – Texas
He would protect her, even if it would be the death of him. Everlee Davis was worth it, plus it wasn’t her fault that people were trying to kill her; … Read the whole text
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Charles Joseph Albert
Friend Me
Symon Nikchema and Andriy Chilovek sat in an alcove of the Facebook headquarters in Skolkovo, sipping sambuca and discussing the hockey game that had just ended.
“I mean, you saw the play, right?” Andriy demanded. “You saw … Read the whole text
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John Tavares
Two Charaters in Search of an Auteur
Before she moved to Toronto, Enola told Kiara, in the Starbucks where they met on Danforth Avenue, near the Pape subway station, she worked for her uncle in his grocery store as … Read the whole text
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Utitofon Ebong Inyang
Words in Flight
These words are roving
birds, returning
After a spell of wintering
In distant climes
Turning, banking,
Eyes trained
On the last home stretch
Wings weighted with desire
For a tree, familiar
Feet poised to perch
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Uche Peter Umezurike
My father loves in a practical way
My father loves the way only an ex-soldier can.
He loves with things handy and familiar.
Like steel or fist.My father is practical.
The way his belts love my behind.
The way … Read the whole text -

Candace Fertile
Essay, Poetry, and Fiction Reviews
Imagination’s Many Rooms
by Amatoritsero Ede,
Griots Lounge Publishing,
180 pages, $21.99,
ISBN: 978-1-7776884-9-3This edited collection of creative-cum-literary nonfiction essays previously published in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement website gives insight into many … Read the whole text

