Cal Massey
Cal Massey is a retired newspaper editor who is not an enemy of the people. His first novel, Own Little Worlds, won the 2020 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel from the Journal of Experimental Fiction and was published by JEF Books in 2022. He and his wife of 46 years, Lynn Pickett Massey, live in Florida. Cal recommends donating to your local Humane Society.
"I can't help you, little one." Jimmy tears up a little himself now with the baby quiet around his finger. "Everybody'd be asking what you doing with a little brand new baby, Jimmy. They'd think I'd done something wrong...
Recent Articles:
"Promises I Make From Under My Desk" and "Man vs. Bear"
by Sophie Farthing
"Time Melts" and "I Have Been To Places Of Great Death"
by Nolo Segundo
Building a Better Babel
by Zovi and Iggy Oddity
Best President
by Heikki Huotari
His Calling
by Charlotte M. Porter
"november" and "ode to an addict(ion)"
by David LaBounty
"Hey Joe" and "Flagging Scotland"
by Lynn White
"Bread," "Cosmic Alignment," and "Full Speed Ahead"
by Marc Vincenz
A Preview A Review A Knot
by R.J. Adams
Midnight Oil
by Ava O'Malley
The Boss's Surprise
by Mark Tulin
Freedom
by Cal Massey
Party Voucher
by Yuan Changming
"Your grown child plays make believe" and "The story you told when you drove down for parents' weekend after I came out"
by Hannah/Hans Kesling
Each Our Own Font
by A Sardine on Vacation
Mask Off
by Sjoerd van Wijk
"Overheard by a Democrat at the RNC...," "A Polygraph...," and "A Series of Active Inquiries in the Wake of Apple's Delivery"
by Jen Schneider
"Bullet Points," "23 Grams," and "Joseph K."
by Howie Good
"Better angels," "The catch," and "Embrace"
by Jeremy Nathan Marks
"DOG FROG GOD" and "Geena"
by Xander Bilyk
"Dance of Women" and "The Wonderful Kandinsky"
by Joan Slatoff
"Accident," "Fear," and "Luck"
by Joan McNerney
Shifts
by Jerome Berglund
Three Visual Poems, September 2024
by Jerome Berglund
Visual Tan-Renga, September 2024
by Kimberly Kuchar and Jerome Berglund
We Are All Such Humans Here
by David Borofka
The Impression
by Cole Steffensen
"The Arachnid's Child" and "Just So You Know"
by Kim Salinas Silva
Sphere of the Present
by Martha Ellen Johnson
Origin Story
by James B. Nicola
"In the Kingdom of Dragons" and "Last Line in the Aisle"
by Tara Campbell
"They Electrocuted a Rogue Elephant," "There is Madness in the Iodine," and "There is a Morbid Organ Grinder"
by Peter J. Dellolio
Spotted Lanternfly
by Jacqueline Jules
Two from the Magnificent Field
by dan raphael
A Virtuous Woman
by Barry Fields
"I'll Call It Blue" and "The Naked Truth"
by Jill Rachel Jacobs
'sweetfish hunt,' 'yesterday,' and 'wisdom'
by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
The Campaign for White Males
by Ethan Goffman