Fiction, issue 111, Prose

Deservedly by Morgan Brie Johnson

It isn’t really a hobby, thumbing off the flower heads of annual potted plants in my neighbourhood. It’s more of a habit, borderline ideological. You know, like plucking your eyebrows or hiding your nipples. It’s just that they sit there all summer long, these flowers, without any roots to look forward to, useless when they […]

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Everything, issue 111

VC’s 2025 Best of the Net Nominations

Art Sunshine by Karissa Ho Orange Street by Frances Jane Sleger Conformity by Teresa Song CNF Outside the Box by Sara Streeter Pain as a Mediocre Symphony Orchestra by Luscha Makortoff Fiction El Camino Real by N.H. Van Der Haar The Bachelorette Party by Madeline Kaprich Poetry Mashhad, circa 1950: an iranian girl dreams by […]

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Everything, issue 111, Issue 98, Now Read This

Now Read This: September 2025

Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators Peppermint by Amber Isaac “And I was taught not to use certain words in poems / but sometimes I act undisciplined to feel better” Amber states in the opening poem of Peppermint. Through cutting matter-of-fact language, Peppermint is a reel of personal lore: a childhood on a farm in […]

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Everything, issue 111, Poetry

Cherry Popsicles by Sam Moe

How many times can I tell this story before it corrodes. I am tired, I don’t know who I am anymore. I wake in the middle of the night and stare at a water glass. What would my life be if I had stayed? If I hadn’t swapped visual art for creative writing. The questions […]

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Everything, issue 111, Poetry

Plato, RSVP by Miller (Lang) Ming

Plato I had gone to your chapelon a wintry November night.Your sage scattered everywhere—in the air, in the water,in the earth, where I stareddeeply into the well of your eyes,a kind of abyssal charm.I went barefoot to see you.I climbed up the hillunflinchingly, Plato.I hauled your books like a bovine yakup the hillbilly brae of […]

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Creative Nonfiction, Everything, issue 111

Famous Last Words by Denise R. Ervin

for Native Child Lauren Keyana Palmer –championship speller,teenage pimp,and all-around baddie –came clean like y’all asked:The average dude she gave a shot and a babyhad the audacity, tenacity, and gymnasticsto put his hands on her.And some of y’all were so busy caping for the clown,you only wanted talk about the Usher serenadelike it was Hillary’s emails. […]

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Everything, in conversation, issue 111, Reviews + Interviews

An Interview with Erica Lee Berquist

I’m thrilled to have author Erica Lee Berquist here to celebrate the release of her first novel, The Servant. I’ve followed Erica’s writing career for years, as she has published her short stories in numerous literary magazines. I recommend you follow her blog: https://ericaleeberquistauthor.wordpress.com/.  It’s been fun watching Erica on her journey to publication.  Here’s […]

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Everything, issue 111, Reviews + Interviews

In Review: The Servant by Erica Lee Berquist 

Erica Berquist’s The Servant is a quietly tense and fascinatingly written novel that explores the psychological intricacies of emotional suppression, perception, and personal identity. Told in the voice of Ellie, a domestic servant, the story unfolds in hushed tones, inviting readers into a private world of emotional entrapment and shifting realities.  Berquist crafts a narrative […]

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Art, Everything, issue 111, Poetry

Cool, sticky and The gate is open by Laszlo Aranyi

Laszlo Aranyi (Frater Azmon) poet, visual poet, anarchist, occultist from Hungary. Earlier books: „(szellem)válaszok”, „A Nap és Holderők egyensúlya”, „Kiterített rókabőr” His poems in English have appeared in over a hundred journals. His new books are: “Delirium &…The Seven Haiku” (Published By DEAD MAN’S PRESS INK ALBANY, NY 2023), „Sacred anarchy! Poems and Visual poems” […]

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