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Life After Death: News from a Texas Prison’s God Pod

By Thomas Bartlett Whitaker Essay

BIG ENOCH WAS JUST SHIFTING into third gear in his exegesis of the prophetic nature of Amos 7:9 when D-Town Filo stabbed Sidetrack in the cheek with a sharpened welding rod. I admit to having zoned out a bit in the middle there. It had something to do with Donald Trump being a new Jeroboam,…

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Twenty-Five Years of Fresh Air

By George David Clark Poetry

With no walls or ceiling to block it, the breeze shuffled my hair. I was chained, but to a comfortable chair on a single, electric boxcar that rolled through the world at thirty-five miles an hour. IVs kept me fed and watered and a catheter kept me clean. My jumpsuit, white at sentencing, splotched in…

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The Ladder

By Mika Seifert Short Story

THIS IS THE SEQUENCE of events that led to Peter Bumble’s downfall: in 1958, as you well know, the Totochabo regime came to power in a military coup that claimed the lives of thousands. Immediately following this, as a first order of business, stairs were declared outdated and no longer practicable for living. The lower stories…

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