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Bar Redux and Unlikely Stories present Fall of Freedom!

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by Edward Michael Supranowicz
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by David E. Matthews

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with Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, Tara Campbell, and Marc Vincenz

by Antoine Prince
Chillin' at the Drop, Wonderful Woman

by Carrie Beene
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by Jamie Chiarello
'The Center Cannot Hold', Oil on panel, 8" x 10", 2025, 'What the Shoreline Was', Oil on Yupo paper, 5" x 7", 2024

with Wendy Taylor Carlisle

by John Grey

Power applauds when angels fall –
slow and polite,
like a king on its throne,
as the wings, once white,
are now just muddy roadkill feathers


by Ethan Goffman

Still, hidden beneath the surface is an angry subcurrent who believes that Narnia’s mystical past will return, that it’s in the blood, that the true spirit of that enchanted land will one day rise again and stomp out the interlopers.


by Arijit Lahiri

I actually laughed. I couldn't help it. Even at the edge of annihilation, Ravn still managed to smirk. ‘I’m not the villain you think I am,’ he spat. ‘I took what I wanted because this world only respects theft. That’s how kings are made. That’s how gods are born.’


by Mehreen Ahmed

I cover my baby up in a torn, fuzzy blanket, I protect from the elements much greater, for us such fanciful specs on the expansive oceans, beneath the ceaseless skies, the wind’s ferocity, I breathe and struggle blanketing my tiny tot.


by Jon Wesick

5928.5 is the cruelest stardate, breeding
Bracken’s World out of the airwaves, mixing
Westerns and cop shows, stirring
Ironside with Nielson ratings.


by Jacqueline Jules

Another worry to push from my mind
as I stand on a manicured lawn
inhaling creation on a bright spring day
while wildfires rage in the distance.


by A Sardine on Vacation

“Ever think of making A Sardine on Vacation an audio book? It has lots of dialogues.”
I would have, but publishers are keen on their audio products following large hard copy sales.
“You said you were against audio books,” Joe T. breaks in.
Against listening to them.


by Marianne Szlyk

Mary wonders how her daughter would seem with the sound on. She is sure that she would sound like any other woman politician on the other side. She could not listen to her own daughter, she realizes as she closes the video on her device.


by Arthur Davis

Half a decade after our father’s death, Ricard took his own life. Too weak from wracking pain, he couldn’t wait for natural causes to bring him a last breath. I was badly shaken. I had lost half of my soul and most of my conscience.


by Joel Chace

Let someone other than she, she
decides, take the rap for causing
an embarrassment of witches.  My sorrow 
is my castle.  She winks, and
fifteen miles away, some car runs
over a cat. Simple earthly mechanics. 


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