In the Beginning There Was Sound In the beginning the sound incorporated the meaning of silence, too. Humming remembrance of the past. Of what happened, was imagined, or profoundly desired. Like an unventilated waiting room in a train station buzzing with flies. The door opens without a creak and the click-clack of heels announces anContinue reading “In the Beginning There Was Sound. fiction by Dana Neacşu”
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WordCity Literary Journal. September 2022.
©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. Non-fiction Editor Olga Stein Where We are Now Putting together an issue that is critical of the new anti-abortion laws in the USA has been wrenching for us at WordCity.Continue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. September 2022.”
Nature’s Child. fiction by Anjum Wasim Dar
Nature’s Child Tied to the armchair with a broad brown leather belt, his fists clenched, muttering, gasping unintelligibly under his breath, angry at something or somebody, an unhappy frown shadowing his brow, hair cropped short, feet bare and sharply white.She recalled the child’s first image. Everyone called him Tari, he was always around the house,Continue reading “Nature’s Child. fiction by Anjum Wasim Dar”
Someone I Used to Know. fiction by Heather Rath
Someone I Used to Know Bounding with pizzazz across the stage in a tight bikini (or was it a superb body paint job?), she shook her bountiful breasts, wiggled her tight ass. Leaned provocatively over the lusting males in the first row. On assignment for a small-town weekly, (you’re a woman. Visit one of thoseContinue reading “Someone I Used to Know. fiction by Heather Rath”
Bulletin: A Housewife In Scranton, Pennsylvania. fiction by Michael Edwards
Bulletin: A Housewife In Scranton, Pennsylvania A housewife in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has reported to local police that she was abducted in broad daylight last month by four-foot, gray-skinned humanoids from outer space. After taking her onboard their spacecraft, the aliens communicated with the woman telepathically, she claims, explaining to her the following. On their planet, anContinue reading “Bulletin: A Housewife In Scranton, Pennsylvania. fiction by Michael Edwards“
While Women Rage In Winter. fiction by Rachel J Fenton
While Women Rage In Winter I don’t want to occupy a place of importance. Knowing other people like to harbour their children’s swim gear safe from spray under the reef-like shelter of this plastic table, I leave one chair between me and it. In essence the seat’s already taken; there’s a small piece of puttyContinue reading “While Women Rage In Winter. fiction by Rachel J Fenton”
The Knights of Malta trilogy. by Marthese Fenech
This page is a surprise book birthday present for Marthese Fenech, whose decades-in-the-making trilogy reached its epic conclusion this month. Mar is not only a WordCity Literary Journal contributor and supporter, but a friend and an inspiration. With her brave and capable women characters, Mar’s historical fiction, and Mar herself, embody the spirit and strengthContinue reading “The Knights of Malta trilogy. by Marthese Fenech”
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WordCity Literary Journal. July 2022
©®| All rights to the content of this journal remain with WordCity Literary Journal and its contributing artists. Table of Contents Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Every so often, we leave our theme open to whatever may be on the minds and hearts (and also in the files) of writers and poets aroundContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. July 2022”
Powdery Wings. fiction by Mansour Noorbakhsh
Powdery Wings Perhaps, I have already told you that some years ago I used to work in a small factory located in the south of Tehran. It was close to a large oil refinery plant, and a large cemetery, too. My home was uptown, in a wealthy neighborhood. Unfortunately, the neighborhood of that small factoryContinue reading “Powdery Wings. fiction by Mansour Noorbakhsh”
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