Congruent Spaces Magazine, Issue 6

By Congruent Spaces

"memories of when" Anniversary Issue

Featured Poem: Images by Jeffrey Park

"Memories of When" theme winner: Terry Coal Road by Jacqueline Platt

Also, more emerging voices from the genres of:

Fantasy
Horror
Literary / Mainstream
Science Fiction
and Poetry

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Camarata
• Release date: Nov 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301433209

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 #6: memories of when

Edited by Michael Camarata

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2012, Michael Camarata

Cover Design Copyright 2012, Michael Camarata

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Congruent Spaces Magazine (ISSN 2163-7601), Volume 1, Issue 6, Whole Number 6, November 2012. Published quarterly, by Michael Camarata. Individual Issues $1.99, US. Subscription price, 1 year online membership (includes previous issues) for $9.99, US. Subscriptions available online only, prices subject to change. 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 Poem:

Images

by Jeffrey Park

memories of when theme winner:

Terry Coal Road

by Jacqueline Platt

More Fiction and Poetry:

Once In A Blue Moon

by Jacqueline Platt

A Beautiful Boy

By Jacqueline Platt

Dick

by Lorna Brown

Sector Seven: Grid Two-Alpha

by Damian Delao

The Birthday Surprise

by Norma Mercado

Step Through

by Jeffrey Park

Paid the Price

By Damian Delao

Walk of Death

by Michelle Bayha

Optimistic

by Susan Butler

Unrest in a Quantum Vacuum

by Brandon Norsworthy

The Back And Forth

by John Ray

Contributors

Editor’s Note

It is hard to believe it has already been a year.

If you have not already heard, November marks one year of publishing Congruent Spaces Magazine. To celebrate this milestone, we have received permission to re-publish the top 4 stories and poems from over the past year, as voted upon by visitors to our website, along with the usual crop of all new fresh stories and poems from our ever growing pool of talented writers.

Our top stories and poems include: Sector Seven: Grid Two-Alpha (Science Fiction) and Paid the Price (Horror Fiction) by Damian Delao, A Beautiful Boy (Poetry) by Jacqueline Platt and Unrest In A Quantum Vacuum (Literary/Mainstream Fiction) by Brandon Norsworthy.

Issue six also marks the winner of our Memories of When theme winner Terry Coal Road (Poetry) by Jacqueline Platt and the featured poem Images by Jeffrey Park. Congratulations to all and I hope you enjoy Issue Six.

--Michael Camarata, Editor

Images

by Jeffrey Park

Photographs crowd

every perpendicular

surface, a thousand tiny windows

into other lives

and others’ experiences

a confusion

of vivid goldfish bowls, each one

so sincere

promising its own story.

Be careful not

to ask, give no sign of interest –

and when you leave

you’ll try hard not to blink

and wish the afterimages

far away.

Terry Coal Road

by Jacqueline Platt

Dukes of Hazard,

yeah, that was us.

Lil’ green Nissan,

oh, what a rush!

Road sign taken,

same owned by three.

Meant everything,

to not just me.

Headed South to,

go run away.

Not knowing I’d,

find me and stay.

Who’d a thought on,

Terry Coal Road.

Whiskey and shells,

loaded and fun.

Rebel yell from,

my redneck girl.

Filled my heart with,

her country world.

Headed South to,

go run away.

Not knowing I’d,

find me and stay.

Who’d a thought on,

Terry Coal Road.

And when they sold,

her daddy’s farm.

She broke right down,

into our arms.

The two of us,

picked her back up.

Unlike that Deed,

can’t tear us up.

Once In A Blue Moon

by Jacqueline Platt

Under the blue moon,

the world heard me cry.

You left me too soon,

never said good-bye.

My tears rained down hard,

in that clear still night.

Holding a sad card,

my face ghostly white.

I tell them I’m fine.

But my broken smile,

and red eyes don’t lie.

I’m just not ready,

to tell you good-bye.

I try to pretend,

the pain isn’t there.

I go out with friends,

drink away my cares.

Only what I need,

isn’t in