Congruent Spaces Magazine, Issue 9

By Congruent Spaces

Congruent Spaces Magazine, #9: those hard to reach places

Featured Story
Graham’s Out-of-Order Life: A Puzzle
(Science Fiction) by Nathan Witkin.

Fantasy Fiction
Literary/Mainstream Fiction
Science Fiction
Western Fiction
Poetry

From up and Coming Authors

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Camarata
• Release date: Jun 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311022455

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Congruent Spaces Magazine: 9

those hard to reach places

by Congruent Spaces Magazine

Edited by Michael Camarata

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Copyright 2014, Michael Camarata

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Editor’s Note

Featured Story:

Graham’s Out-of-Order Life: A Puzzle

By Nathan Witkin

More Fiction and Poetry:

HeartRot

By Sarina Bosco

Taking It In

By Jacqueline Platt

Look At The Years

By Jacqueline Platt

This Is Me

By Jacqueline Platt

A Mystic Vine

By Richard King Perkins II

Grease Poet

By Richard King Perkins II

The Rustlers

By James Hanley

Tale of a Writer

By Celine Rose Mariotti

The Zombie and the Cheese

By Gary McGrew

Headstone

By Jack Coey

12:03

By Liam Calhoun

At The Rainbow Cafe Teen Canteen in Chamberlain, South Dakota 1957

By Donald Fisher

Lineup

By Jeffrey Park

Unearthed

By Jeffrey Park

Walking on Ice

By Jeffrey Park

Redux

By Alex Dunne

A gift

By Norma Mercado

Lesson

By Norma Mercado

Lines

By Hilary Boerger

Old Structure

By Cecilia Soprano

Contributors

Editor’s Note

For those of you interested in my health, the ailment went on much longer than expected. Although there are still minor effects which can be felt, the doctor says it could take some time for them to completely disappear. The good news is that I was finally released on May 27th.

This issue of Congruent Spaces Magazine features several repeat authors to its pages. Although it is always important for me to find new and unique voices, I am always pleased to see repeat authors. First of all, it tells me that I must be doing something right if they are willing to continue to submit even though I can not currently afford to provide them with the monetary payment that they deserve. Secondly, I am glad to be more than a simple one time stepping stone to their future writing careers.

–Michael Camarata, Editor

Graham’s Out-of-Order Life: A Puzzle

by Nathan Witkin

Graham should have suspected that the rules of causation did not apply to him. No matter how many times he rehearsed the lines and no matter how many angles he planned in his head, his conversations with Anna Henderson never came out the way he hoped or expected. While the neural sequences never lined up to compose a concrete conclusion on the subject, Graham’s adolescence was plagued by the sneaking suspicion that he was somehow different from everyone else.

This sense of being abnormal, along with his tendency toward procrastination and complete lack of organizational skills, made Graham an entirely