Summer 2021 Dedicated to Nicholas Johnson and Maureen Holm, co-founders of BitCityLit Red By Nicholas Johnson Essay Cora’s Kayak By Cari Oleskewicz Essay Magritte’s Aerial Imagination By Kimmo Rosenthal Essay You Turn Me On! By Alan Swyer Fiction Semicolon By Karen DeGroot Carter Fiction The New Moon In the Old Moon’s Arms By David Hallock Sanders Fiction What Happened to My Parents After They Gave Me Up By Shoshauna Shy Fiction The Young Waitress By Sue Brennan Fiction Purple By Francine Witte Fiction The Fickle Messiah By J. Paul Ross Poetry Grown Men and their Toys By Christopher Clauss Poetry A Short History of My Long Hair By Peggy Landsman Poetry Among Grotesque Trees By Millicent Accardi Poetry Anisomelia By Lauren Scharhag Poetry Baggage Reclaim By Ben Nardolilli Poetry An element of unfairness. By DS Maolalai Poetry A Selection from “A Month of Someday” By Gerald Wagoner Poetry birthday wishes By Linda Wimberly Poetry Elegy #21 By Martin Willitts Jr Poetry Karen and the Birdwatcher By Angie Dribben Poetry Like and Care By Richard Levine Poetry Lines By James King Poetry Outtakes From the Movie of My Life By Lois Roma-Deeley Poetry Rites of Marriage By Marilee Pritchard Poetry Sakura By Daisy Bassen Poetry Telling My Grandmother About This Life By Kathleen Hogan Poetry The Necessity of Lancing By Greg Huteson Poetry tusk By Kathleen Hellen Poetry On Hearing the News of a Friend’s Death While in Honolulu, November 2019 By Benjamin Balthaser Poetry Hills Like White Elephants By Benjamin Balthaser Poetry White Boys By Simran Singh Jain Poetry An Almost Love Letter to an Almost Stranger By Simran Singh Jain Poetry Why I Quit 6 AM Yoga By Stan Rubin Poetry Bird at Window By Stan Rubin Poetry Wolf Shadow By Shira Dentz Poetry My Father’s a Psychologist By Talya Jankovits Poetry When I Say Loving Me Is Like Eating Cherry Tomatoes By Cameron Chiovitti Poetry Stepping into the Sea By Maria Lisella Review Bland Fanatics and White Crusades: A Review of Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire by Pankaj Mishra By Katherine Judith Anderson Review Plight & Power: A Kurdish Woman’s Journey in Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa By Holly Mason
