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Issue 1.04 is Live!
by Jeffrey Heath Our Spring 2026 issue is now live on the site. You can view the free PDF edition here. Print and Kindle editions are also available via Amazon. Jeffrey Heath, Founding Editor, EIC – January House Literary Journal Continue reading
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Ants
by James Sears My brother Tom hunted the woods behind our house, moving through all the sharp plants North Florida offered, saw palmetto and yellow pines who leaned like sick old men. Nothing could live well here. Not trees. Not boys. Everything was vile and hard, or else it withered away. The midday sun blazed.… Continue reading
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Assateague Island
by Susan Sandstrom Ellis There were horses on the island and mosquitoes thick with rage. A thrumming rhythmic hymn, dissonant. Their bites quick, effective. The swelling and scratching immediate. As a girl I’d been caught once in a storm on the island. A mile of silver seagrass shimmered between the house and me. I stood… Continue reading
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Flashes
by Laura Grace Weldon In-between ever-worsening news I see flashesbright as the best tomorrow. Thousands standing in subzero cold singing outside a detention center. Neighbors, arms linked, protecting parents and childrenat school start and dismissal time. Faith leaders from everydenomination kneeling in silence at an airportwhere people are forcibly unwoven from their ties. Dr. Esposito… Continue reading
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Today
by Anne Graue there are thistles for breakfast there are rhododendron buds out the window there are black-capped chickadees announcing the morning, shrill and loud there are wheat pennies in a jar green, light fuchsia black & white dull copper there is so much to get done that will probably never get done futility reigns… Continue reading
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WagJaw #25
by Padma Thornlyre Are you a Buddha?I asked the fruit fly strolling up mythumb stroking my little glassof red wine. The Buddha,she answeredby flying away. Padma Thornlyre has published ten books of original poetry, including the four volumes of his “Anxiety Quartet” (Turkey Buzzard Press 2020-21) and one book of translations from the Ukrainian poet,… Continue reading
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27 Objects You Need to Have a Baby
by Helen Raica-Klotz Helen Raica-Klotz is the winner of the 2025 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook contest for Superior Stories, a collection of short fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications, including The MacGuffin, The Great Lakes Review, and MER; two of her nonfiction essays were nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2026. Helen… Continue reading
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Artwork by JJ Cromer
JJ CROMER is a self-taught artist from Virginia. His work is in many public collections, including the American Visionary Art Museum, the Intuit Center of Outsider Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Taubman Museum of Art. He and his family live on a farm in central Appalachia, where they have kept chickens, ducks,… Continue reading
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After I Discover the Islets of Langerhans
by Annie Stenzel Coming to this charming name by chance,of course I wanted these small bodies of land to bean exotic, intriguing place I might visit one day, and nota tricky body part, essential in the managementof glucose. Which means my sundry diabetic friendshad Islets of Langerhans that ran amok somehowand their bodies needed rescue.… Continue reading
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