Liquid Imagination
Fiction
Introduction to Issue 22 Fiction by Perry Mc Daid
Stories are born from human virtues
and frailties, and the skill to weave these concepts into a tapestry
which entertains and inspires: themes which freeze the blood and warm
the heart.
Fiction
The Hunt by Owen Smith
The woods were far too quiet for the
time of day. Not a single bird sang from a single tree; not a paw moved
on the dead-leaf floor. It was out there, somewhere.
Fiction
A Shot of Martian Whiskey by D.L. Young and Stephen Young
Feels strange writing like this: the
old-fashioned way; pen on paper. Kind of funny, when I think about it.
Here I am, surrounded by the most advanced tech imaginable on a research
base at the foot on Mons Olympus, and I’m writing down my thoughts in a
leather-bound journal with an ink pen.
Fiction
Chips and Old Blocks By Maureen Bowden
Jed was lost. He was scouring the
Anglesey countryside around the village of Llanddaniel, in search of the
Neolithic burial chamber, Bryn Celli Ddu.
Fiction
A Fly’s Work By Paul Magnan
Colleen walked through the door of
Grandma’s Own Donut at six and was assaulted by a wave of cold air
tinged with cinnamon and raspberry. As usual, Vinnie had the air
conditioning on way too high. Colleen wished she had brought a
sweatshirt.
Fiction
Redemption by Gustavo Bondoni
“Damn, Neill, I don’t think that
there’s the sheriff.” I had known for quite a while that it wasn’t. The
sheriff was a tough old codger, hard as nails if you tried to keep him
from getting his cut, but he was no driver. It had to be Bert doing the
driving, and that was [...]
Fiction
Laura’s Cleaver by John Hayes
In my dream I am naked and fleeing
from Laura, my girl friend. She swings a cleaver and wants to chop off
my penis because she caught me in bed with her friend Marge. I told her
it didn't mean anything that Marge and I were both drunk.
Flash
A New Day by William Gray Tait
Sarah sits in her bathroom clenching a
razor blade, her head down between her knees, talking herself back off
the ledge of despair.
Flash
Imitation Moon, Imitation Night by Brian T. Hodges
Previously published in “The Strange
Edge” in February, 2014. The sun was a pregnant orb that never left its
nest in the sky. In its thirst, it unfurled a long tongue to lap every
drop from the fractured soils below. So, too, did it drink greedily from
our flesh, leaving behind a worn landscape. I [...]
Flash
The Devil’s Temptation Leslie Lee
They are praying for my soul. I do not
know how I came to be lying here in this box. I am too young to die.
Someone must be responsible for my death. It is my funeral, and the
reverent all are gathered here like on the Sabbath. Surely, not Goodwife
Bishop though. She can’t [...]
Flash
For the Good of Us All By Matthew J. Barbour
“The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke Father
Xavier Grajeda was tired. It was late. He had been summoned to a small
adobe shed on the edge of the village. It smelled of offal and
excrement. Tools of all shapes and sizes [...]
Poetry
tick tick tick by John Reinhart
Narrated by John Reinhart I got drunk
last night and screamed until my hands bled I chewed my fingernails my
hair and tore attempting to get through again to emptiness instead
pillaged me leaving me an unmanned husk broken upon an unknown reef I
called for help but the only reply was an echo the [...]
Poetry
Observing Ragnarok by Chelsea Eckert
What an event to witness the flicker of divinity flaming behind the sky
Poetry
A Kneaded Life by Deborah Guzzi
I’ve watched him whither. He came to
me a decade ago, stooped in pain. The fine boned features of his face
and the clarity of his Irish skin still holding on to a genetic
predisposition to beauty.
Poetry
When Gods Fall by Dan Hettmannsperger III
For millennia we mortals feared them
with their capricious motives their endless terrible wrath carried by
plague and twisted tempests
Articles
Stuck? Ways to Move Forward by Coach Dare Kent
There are moments in our life when we
need to be creative and don’t feel like it. Whether for work or for play
or for necessity we need to dig deep and find a spark, any spark of
creativity.











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