Toledo’s premier electronic festival is back for more
Get into the rhythm
3rd Place Poetry: Exhaled Smoke
A lush soundtrack of funk flows In waves over cracked cement. Cars gleam with chrome wheels Sending sparks to the sky. Riding that bass,...
2nd Place Poetry: Week Night
Just now ten at night and I can sit, drink a beer while the dishes soak. The children listen in bed to radios...
1st Place Poetry: Common Ground
When I was a child, I used to wonder why Only the insects and birds knew how to fly. Why couldn’t I? When...
Honorable Mention: Puddle Play
Even as a child Eric couldn't resist. The lure of reflections and the shimmer of dancing light made him leap feet first into...
Honorable Mention: Her Name Was Mattie
It was a story full of delicious revenge for scared black kids growing up in the early forties in Ringout, Alabama. It was...
3rd Place Fiction: The Journey
He pushed his head slowly forward, hesitant to leave his sanctuary under the front porch. He’d been lying in his makeshift shelter since the...
2nd Place Fiction: Sensitivity training
A generous degenerate left something for you in a rest stop bathroom between the love-kit/temporary tattoo dispenser and the infinitely useless hand dryer. There’s...
1st Place Fiction: Catharsis
“Señorita Larkin, I will ask this in English since you seem to have extreme difficulty understanding the language of the country in which you...