A brain at rest, random thoughts flickering through its hinterlands, nothing registering, nothing sticking.Then FLASH!A tiny spark in the darkness that begins to burn, growing with every nanosecond, swelling ever larger, impossible to ignore, impossible to push away. It pulls in on itself, condensing, forming, solidifying...A story in its infancy, trying to gather what it needs to survive. Drawing sustenance from the Imagination of the Author. Trying to mature. Tryi...

Issue Nº18 features:A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Brendan DuBois, Dennis McFadden, Robert Pope, Charles Cline, Davin Ireland, Andrew Riconda, Kevin Egan, and Steve Loiaconi.Essays, Interviews and Reviews by Matthew Mercier, Erica Wright, Alex Segura, Christopher McGinley, and Scott Adlerberg,Art and Photography by Nicolas Bruno.This issue also features a preview of the new graphic novel Mamo by Sas Milledge.NY Times Bests...

Among living Lutheran theologians writing primarily in English, no other author has more command of the atonement than Jack D. Kilcrease.In the foreword to this volume, The Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, President of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, says "Dr. Kilcrease is a reliable, clear and faithful guide." With the abiding confession that is in accordance with Scripture and the Lutheran confessions in the 1580 Book of Concord, Harrison says Kilcrease "patiently and c...