Congruent Spaces Magazine, Issue 3

By Congruent Spaces

Issue #3: heartsong

Featured Story: Paid the Price (Horror Fiction) by Damian Delao

Heartsong theme winner: Closer (Poem) by Jacqueline Platt

Also, emerging voices from the genres of:

Fantasy
Horror
Literary / Mainstream
and Poetry

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Camarata
• Release date: Jan 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466019263

Congruent Spaces

Congruent Spaces Magazine is a community edited magazine of Short-Short Fiction and Poetry. At Congruent Spaces, you are allowed to take part in the editorial process by helping to select which short stories and poems will be published in our magazine through our star ratings process.

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Congruent Spaces Magazine

Issue #3: heartsong

Edited by Michael Camarata

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Copyright 2012, Michael Camarata

Cover Design Copyright 2012, Michael Camarata

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Congruent Spaces Magazine (ISSN 2163-7601), Volume 1, Issue 3, Whole Number 3, February 2012. Published monthly, or as submissions allow, by Michael Camarata. Individual Issues $1.99, US. Subscription price, 1 year online membership for $18.99, US. Subscriptions available online only. You may contact our offices by mail at Congruent Spaces Magazine, c/o Michael Camarata, Editor, PO Box 91, Talent OR, 97540-0091. Submissions are currently accepted online only. For our current guidelines, visit http://congruentspaces.com/home/submission/ For general inquiries, contact [e-mail] Our physical offices are located at 114 N. Madison St., Talent OR. No walk in traffic without appointment.

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Editor’s Note

Featured Story:

Paid the Price

By Damian Delao

heartsong theme winner:

Closer

By Jacqueline Platt

More Fiction and Poetry:

A Beautiful Boy

By Jacqueline Platt

Waiting

By Farah Ghuznavi

My Pain

By Jacqueline Platt

Striations Of Light

By Bobbi Sinha-Morey

The Feud

By Jack Coey

Lost Tomorrows

By Bobbi Sinha-Morey

Enough Rope

By Bobbi Sinha-Morey

Gift of Peace

By Michael Podgorski

Life Is A Roller Coaster

By Jacqueline Platt

Contributors

Editor’s Note

It's the season of love! In honor of Valentine's Day, we put out a special call for fiction and poetry about love and relationships. The top entry, as voted upon by our website visitors, was the poem Closer by Jacqueline Platt. Great job, and congratulations, Jacqueline! You will find this poem, along with three other poems by Jacqueline, in this issue.

More congratulations go out to Damian Delao, whose story Paid the Price received the highest ranking by our website visitors for this reading period and is this issue's featured story.

More great news! Since the publication of our last issue, we have gotten the online version of our magazine up and running. Now you can access multiple issues of our magazine online.

It's a beautiful world!

--Michael Camarata, Editor

Paid the Price

By Damian Delao

I have been having a recurring dream for the past few nights. It doesn’t just haunt my subliminal thoughts, but every waking moment. Something bad is going to happen, I know it, but who do I tell? Who can I go to that won’t lock me up in a straitjacket and toss me into a padded white room to live out the