The new issue of Faraway is online, featuring dozens of pieces by many new authors.  Click on the titles below to read the individual stories or poems, or click here to view the issue as a whole.

On the Other Promontory by Davide Trame

Winter Passage For Billy Collins by Michael K. Gause

Dwindling Times and Burden by Gary Beck

A Work in Progress by Benjamin Nardolilli with artwork by Travis Jeffords

Paramecium by S.P. Flannery

Her Shunted Complexion by Ray Succre with photo by James Berkshire

Beyond Organic Groceries by Elizabeth Kate Switaj

“Behold I Am Oblivion” by Terence Kuch

Titian on His Journey Home by Davide Trame

The Book Review by David Kentner

A Family Matter by Josh Mitchell with photos by Atina Thorning

Manic is the Dark Night by Michael K. Johnson

Dwellings by Luigi Monteferrante

The Whole History of Art by William Doreski

Can I Get a Witness by Eric McKinley

Betty With the Peacock by Willow Healy

Fading Flurries by Sean Wiebe

? by Jeff Hendrickson

RedYellowRed by Katie Rutherford

Conceptual Conflict by Felino Soriano

Spirit Faces by William Doreski

Roy Flint, Circa 1988 by Jen Conley

Venge by S.P. Flannery

Smack! by James Berkshire

The Silent Signs by Olga Zilberbourg with artwork by Gay Degani

Some Dark Blue by Beth Mathison

Coming to America by Shane Ryan Bailey with L.A. Harvest by James Berkshire

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Mark Konkel
New Grass by Michael K. Gause

Christopher Caldwell crosses the space between the stove and kitchen sink for what could have been the fiftieth time tonight. He turns the faucet to fill the kettle he’s holding. Returning to the stove he starts to boil water for more coffee. He then hears the door open and close in the adjacent washroom. His brother Michael now enters the kitchen. It’s 11:40pm and a single light overhanging the tiny kitchen table illuminates the small room.

“You’ve been gone awhile,” Christopher says. Michael pulls a chair from the table and sits without saying a word. Reaching into his pocket he grabs a pack of cigarettes, pulls one out and places it between his lips.  Outstretching his arm, but without looking up, he offers one to his brother.  Christopher quietly accepts one and the two brothers light their cigarettes in unison, and both exhale large plumes of smoke, Michael’s slightly larger.

With photos by Atina Thorning.  Click here to read more, and here to read more by Josh Mitchell.

Read the whole issue here, or preview the issue by clicking below:

Poetry: On the Other Promontory by Davide Trame.
Short story: The Book Review by David A. Kentner.

And return tomorrow for a new short story by Josh Mitchell, illustrated with photographs by Atina Thorning.

From the Los Angeles Times

I have been debating with a few of my colleagues on the following question:

“If you were Luke Skywalker and had to sneak into Mordor to destroy the ‘one ring’ who would you want as your faithful companion?”

You’d have to pick someone from the Star Wars universe.

There has been much debate.  Two candidates have been more popular than others.  Who would you take?

Petty people with petty problems have all but crowded my petty life.

I’ve held my scorn like a bouquet of roses

Red with rage;

I’ve stood there and smiled

While patiently waiting for the return of common sense.

Before I thought my own thoughts

They were fed to me

By an angry hand with a jagged spoon.

I’ve closed my eyes & smelled the scent of life;

Which always reminds me of the stench of death,

Tulips in the spring.

Why do all roads lead to Rome?

Is there no better place to go?

Over thirty contributors: Andy Mills, Dan Moreau, Diana Magallon, Jeff Crouch, David Kowalczyk, Val Murah, Katie Rutherford, T.R. Healy, William Walsh, Ellen Perry, Suvi Mahonen, Luke Waldrip, Vic Fortezza, Michael Woodcock, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Janet Thorning, Jim Fuess, Jim Lyons, Christian Pinchbeck, Michael Pitassi, Colin James, Joseph Goosey, Daniel Sawyer, Josh Mitchell, Jared Hernandez, Joseph Grant, Ron Savage, Gay Degani, Steve Cartwright, Scott Sawyer, and Jeff Hendrickson!

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