September / October 2025

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September / October 2025

Cover Story

Clay Stafford talks with James Comey on “What Makes Stories Linger” > 

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Craft Articles

This Crazy Writing Life: Binge Writing In This Crazy Writing Life by Steven Womack >

Between Pen and Paper: Flaneuring Through a Writer’s Mind – Writing at the Speed of a Melting Popsicle by Andi Kopek >

Japanese Literary Terms by Neil Plakcy >

Unanswered Prayers: Truman Capote and The Case Against Perfectionism by Mary Lynn Cloghesy & Jason Schembri >

Drop the Pen! What Every Writer Should Know About Real Police Work: Legal Justification for a Traffic Stop by David Lane Williams >

*NEW* My Ten-Year Journey from Clueless to Getting a Clue by Lois Winston >

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Flash Fiction

Curtains in the Wind by Jonathan Olvera >

The Antelope, the Perfect Spiral by Emma Hamilton >

*NEW* The Red of Mourning by Patrick Sylvain >

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Poetry

YOU’RE JUST A PHOTOGRAPH AFTER ALL by John Grey >

AVOID THE TREES by Al Baron >

MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR by John Grey >

*NEW* Wounded, The Morning by Clark Hays >

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Short Stories

Cerulean by Ashley Clifton >

*NEW* Accidents Will Happen by Ken Pisani >

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