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©®| 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 From the beginning, the success of WordCity Literary Journal has been something of a miracle. We didn’t know if it was too much to hope that writersContinue reading “WordCity Literary Journal. January 2023”

Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter Faculty Lounge. by Paul Germano How the Tree Leaves Helped the Poet. by Dilan Qadir The Clockwork Trinity. by Brian Hughes Finding Transcendence into an Upside-Down World. by Marzia Rahman Couples. by Olga Stein Morning Star. by Chantel Lavoie Non-fiction. Edited by Olga Stein My battle scars. by Diary MarifContinue reading “Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. January 2023”

‘If She Must Be a Myth’Review of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plathby Heather Clark, Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. The old comparisons to Medea and Electra no longer hold. If she [Plath] must be a myth, let her be Ariadne, laying down the threads, leading us out from the centreContinue reading “‘If She Must Be a Myth’. a review of Heather Clark’s Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. by Dr. Suzanne M. Steele”

What’s The Point What’s the point of tanks if you can’t have a little fun? Riding on the rusty turret and swiveling the gun. Computer games are all that war’s about, Say hungry soldiers grabbing little piggies by the snout. Just a game of hide and seek ,as artillery triangulation is adjusted just a tweak.Continue reading “What’s The Point. a poem by Mitchell Sheffield”

Letter from the Editor. WCLJ’s non-fiction editor, Olga Stein Fine Art. Media Eruption. by Michele Rule Miroslava Panayotova Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter Fires Near Me. by Faye Brinsmead Cut As if By Knife. by Wayne F. Burke In the Beginning There Was Sound. by Dana Neacşu Non-fiction. Edited by Olga Stein Good for You.Continue reading “Table of Contents. November 2022”

Don’t Ask Me Where I’m from during a Gynecological Exam In general, don’t ask me where I’m from, all right? Don’t tell me about my accent and how it’s cute and interesting, or that it’s so cool I come from such and such a place and how you know another person from my country orContinue reading “Don’t Ask Me Where I’m from during a Gynecological Exam. non-fiction by Domnica Radulescu”

Letter from the Editor. Darcie Friesen Hossack Fiction. Edited by Sylvia Petter Mehreen Ahmed. Silent Bleat Mitchell Toews. Sanctuary Quandary Stacey Walz. The Rainbow in the Window Thomas Paul Smith. faithful Mansour Noorbakhsh. Powdery Wings Non-fiction. Edited by Olga Stein Olga Stein. Networks: Sublime Omnipresence Niles Reddick. A Rainbow. College Graduation Grace Curry. I LikeContinue reading “Table of Contents. WordCity Literary Journal. July 2022.”

The Defendant Say what you will. Swear by the lifted book. Slowly lift up your gentle face and look. There shall be no safe questions. I sit to trace Your life beyond the confines of the case. When all is said and done, there must remain Among the detritus of slipshod rain, Between the callousContinue reading “6 poems by Susmit Panda”

For our July issue of WordCity Literary Journal, we’re both leaving the theme open and also seeking threads on networks. These can be all kinds—social, neural, aesthetic, web-related etc. Please visit our Submissions page, but note that we’re going to accept pieces all the way until the end of June, and perhaps later upon requestContinue reading “Call for Mss”