ISSN 1529-0832  Vol 4 No 3 – January 2024All Works are Copyright © their Authors 2024All Rights Reserved Worldwide No portion of this electronic magazine may be reproduced in any other form or by any means, except for the purposes of review, without the prior consent of the appropriate copyright owner.Show More »

DEDICATION
PAHOA BOY, A Poem by Joe Balaz
ALMANAC 26-30, A Poetic Sequence by Christopher Barnes
ARTEMIS, A Poetic Sequence by Patrick Gasperini
FOUR POEMS by Michael Lee JohnsonShow More »

Post-Urban Songs is an outburst of sophisticated underground poetry, erratic and psychedelic. Unusual characters live in a visionary world, almost a parallel reality, where the emotions, urges, impulses, conflicts, and desperate search for happiness and intellectual freedom are almost the same as in our material world. All the poems inShow More »

HAMLET’S SHAVING BRUSH, A Poem by Daniel de Culla
EMPTY CHAIR AND PENCIL MARKS, A Poem by Jason Ryberg
LEO DUROCHER, A Poem by Michael Ceraolo
WHAT THE STREET REMEMBERS 1-5, A Poetic Sequence by Christopher Barnes
TWO POEMS by Jack e Lorts
TWO POEMS by Michael Lee JohnsonShow More »

Locust Ten

EPHRAM PRATT SWALLOWS THE NEWS OF HIS DEATH, A Poem by Jack E. Lorts
BABYSITTING FOR NATIONAL SECURITY, A Poem by Tom Fillion
FIRST METHODIST, A Poem by Jeff Burt
DISILLUSIONMENT, A Poem by Gary Beck
SMOOTH WHISKEY, A Poem by David Estringel
YOU TRY TO IMAGINE THE MIRROR, A Poem by Simon Perchik
HEAVEANLY TEMPLES AND TOWERS, An Original Chinese Poem by Hongri Yuan, Translated by Yuanbing Zhang
PUTTING YOU THROUGH NOW, CALLER, A Poem Sequence by Christopher Barnes
IN THE FIVE MINUTES THEY ATE, A Short Story by Nik Perring
SLEIGHING SANTA, A Prose Piece by Mir-Yashar SeyedbagheriShow More »

Bullets, Blades, and High Heels

Bullets, Blades, and High Heels propels the reader into a world of obscure emotions and perilous liaisons, where women are as unflinching as they are razor-sharp, men as unreliable as they are weak-kneed, and where dramatic twists skulk just around the corner. A young lady prefers her tea dark andShow More »

Bog

Patrick Gasperini, the editor of Locust Magazine, has tried his hand at writing pulp fiction, and he pens it under the nom de plume Phil Gerraud. His debut novel, a thriller, came out in 2015 (Kindle) and 2016 (paperback). “Wilf Anthony Gaugain, a third-rate journalist with no job satisfaction, strugglesShow More »