Congruent Spaces Magazine, Issue 8

By Congruent Spaces

Issue #8: "shades of regret"

Featured Poem: A City Like No Other by Jacqueline Platt

Ghost Story Winner: Cries In The Dark by Gillian Scott

Also, more emerging voices from the genres of:

Horror
Literary / Mainstream
and Poetry

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Camarata
• Release date: Oct 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311114914

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

shades of regret

by Congruent Spaces Magazine

Edited by Michael Camarata

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Copyright 2013, Michael Camarata

Cover Design Copyright 2013, Michael Camarata

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Editor’s Note

Featured Poem:

A City Like No Other

by Jacqueline Platt

More Fiction and Poetry:

Cries in the Dark

(Ghost Story Theme Winner)

By Gillian Scott

Mr. Time

by Jacqueline Platt

Rebel Beat

by Jacqueline Platt

Tracking

by Jeffrey Park

Carrot Dangling from a Charcoal Horizon

by Christopher Caci

Returning Home

by Justin Fleischman

Transformation

by Essque Ess

we’ve both

by Josh Smith

The Playground

by Taylor Wallace Gerard

Back In Time

by Celine Rose Mariotti

Grandma

by Danny Sparks

Doubt

by Norma Mercado

The End

by Norma Mercado

Untitled

by Brandon Norsworthy

The Robbery

by Daniel Rutter

Contributors

Editor’s Note

The short story, when written well, has the ability to translate the reader, or listener, to another reality. So too with poetry. Unfortunately, over the last thirty years it has become harder and harder to publish short items. Those sources that do publish them become the focus of the elite within the writing community. This makes it harder and harder for writers of short forms to publish, and harder still to be able to make a living at it unless published in collection form. Unless well known and published within this handful of magazines, even this is difficult. But where are the new practitioners of short form writing to come from? With the growth of electronic magazines, and their relatively inexpensive production costs, we now have the chance to increase the growth of magazines which publish short content and get the writers both practice and notoriety in these forms.

November marks the second anniversary of Congruent Spaces Magazine. Congruent Spaces continues to be devoted to this form. We are dedicated to publishing short form content from new and rising artists and providing them with a platform for being read and heard.

--Michael Camarata, Editor

A City Like No Other

by Jacqueline Platt

Just as you swept me off my feet when we first met,

Nashville took away my breath and I can’t forget.

I fell in love with you and my heart found it’s place

On the Tennessee line in the land of God’s grace,