Issue 2: In Flore
in flore - in bloom
All things bloom at their own pace. For these fifty-two previously rejected works, their time to bloom is now.
Each piece has been placed into a symbol of Spring and renewal - sunflower to represent nature, tree of life to represent growth and philosophy, daffodil to represent the human experience and peony to represent the tangible and material world.
We hope you read these pieces with the spirit of this season in your mind - hope, new beginnings and a second chance.
David and Katie, Editors
sunflower

We Float Like Lilies on the River - Prose by Maxine Meixner

But You Have Promises to Keep - Poetry by Matthew Miller

Star Muck Bourach - Poetry by David Linklater

Rose Hips - Prose by Sarah Tollok

Dandelion - Poetry by David R. DiSarro

Weeding - Poetry by Barbara Simmons

Eating the Woods - Poetry by Lillian Nećakov

Changeling - Prose by Michelle Kulwicki

Flowers In My Jeans - Poetry by Lauren Goulette

Shadows in the Shape of Jellyfish - Prose by Amber Nuyens

The Walk To The Horizon - Poetry by Luke Bateman

A Silence Lurks in These Depths - Prose by Joe Butler

Underside - Poetry by Maggie Swofford
tree of life

Parallel Lives - Poetry by Julian Matthews

Zen and the Art of Dishwashing - Poetry by Eric Evans

Tiresias Was - Prose by Alice Langley

On A Quiet Day - Poetry by Leah Holleran

Rapture - Poetry by Elizabeth Garcia

The Weight of the Wind - Prose by Len Kuntz

On Leaving Home - Poetry by Anna Papadopoulos

In Memory of My Memory - Prose by Diego Martínez-Campos

Becoming - Prose by Sara Dobbie

Pebble - Poetry by Sadie Maskery

The Museum of Lost Chances - Prose by Audrey Niven

Doctor Wicked - Poetry by Michael Cooney

Endings - Poetry by Ashley Logan
daffodil

A Mended Sternum, Your Silver Hands - Poetry by Olivia Torres

Why She Wears Black - Poetry by Robin Mullet

Fly Away - Prose by Alex Law

A Love Like The Phoenix - Poetry by Imogen Smiley

Unhappily Ever After - Prose by Christina Rosso

Pinal County - Poetry by b. pick

Fat Head by Izzy Radford

A Reply to the Newest Mail in My Inbox - Poetry by Chiemeziem Everest Udochukwu

The Elf King - Prose by Margaux Emmanuel

The Author at 11 Wanted to be Reincarnated as a Dog - Poetry by Andrew P. Dillon

Mae - Prose by Lotte van der Krol

A Sister Hellscream - Poetry by Taryn Miller

Girls Dem Sugar - Poetry by Oak Morse
peony

Dream of the Burial Mound, East Texas - Poetry by Robin Turner

Under the flight path - Poetry by Laura Brinson

The Clockwork Heart - Prose by James Blanchard

Yard Sale, After - Poetry by Aaron Sandberg

The Tie - Prose by Jeanette Smith

MacArthur Park - Poetry by Abriana Jette

Kale Chips - Prose by Sara Torres-Albert

Night Shift - Poetry by Amanda Cino

Gunmetal Pink - Prose by Annie Percik

night house - Poetry by Sally Badawi

in which the book keeps up its end - Prose as told to Glenn Ingersoll

Happiness Blues - Poetry by Gregg Shapiro

Than This of Juliet - Poetry by Magi Sumpter