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As a three-year-old child, Tracy Robert was free to wear her angora panties and nothing else, free to walk her neighborhood dressed this way during the hot days of summer. That changed after a...

Coneflower Cafe, Spring 2024, offers a unique bouquet of short stories, poetry, and art certain to attract a variety of readers. The stories take place in a variety of locations, from Botswana to...

Subsisting on near-constant sunlight for most of her life, Rochelle Germond chronicles the displacement that follows a move "hundreds of miles and three states to the northeast" in her debut...

Linda Enders has given us a collection of poems for the trying times we live in. While these poems address issues such as climate change, migrants seeking new homes and lives, the losses and grief of...

Glacial Hills Review is Choeofpleirn Press' annual magazine featuring nonfiction, poetry, and art. This issue explores how much trees mean to many people and our planet, what makes art and poetry...

Death haunts us all, but Cody Shrum shows us how Santa died, how the first dog he loved died, and he, too, took life while still a child. In Green Acre, Shrum writes with a Midwestern authenticity...

Life is like a theater run: a limited engagement. And her approach to life, as author Jacquelyn Shah renders it in her memoir-essay collection, is grounded in limited engagement with the world and...

As a child, Jacquelyn Shah recognized she could not count on anyone else for her needs, so she developed the attitude to "expect nothing" in order to avoid being disappointed. Then, in college, deep...

Mrs. Nash is a screenplay written to imagine what led the real Mrs. Nash, the first historically documentable EuroAmerican male to live his life as a woman in the United States, to choose to live as...

Over 30,000 rocket fragments, astronaut tools, and mission clamps float high above our heads in an earth-bound orbit. In Orbital Debris, Amy Lerman explores humans' peripheral, intentional, and...

A re-examination of ancient symbols and literature through gynocentric eyes, instead of the biased androcentric view. Pinpoints when and how humanity verified that males have a biological role in...

Archeologists, historians, anthropologists, literary analysts, and others tend to assume that, if a man was leading an ancient culture, it must already have been a patriarchy.However, we now know...

An outstanding compilation of one-act plays, short screenplays, an excerpt of one full-length screenplay, poetry, and art, this issue of Rushing Thru the Dark leads us through the perils and pitfalls...

Rushing Thru the Dark features one-act plays and short screenplays, poetry, and art.This issue brings humor in the form of a fun math problem and Krampus in A Night Alone in Santa Fe; in an imagined...

The Bee Telephone, a collection of poems by Jane Wiseman, allows readers to hear alien voices while watching alien workers. Her poetry gives us a hotline into unfathomable twists and turns of our...

The Best of Choeofpleirn Press showcases the winners and finalists of our five creative contests--the Ben Nyberg Fiction Contest, the Phil Heldrich Nonfiction Contest, the Susan Hansell Drama...

The works in this magazine were all selected as winners and finalists by their fellow contributors. Herein are the best works we published this year, judged by their peers.The fiction was first...

The voice behind the collection of poems, The Truth Is, knows well the complicated relationships children have with their parents, especially the relationship daughters have with their mothers. In...

Trail Magic, JoDean Nicolette's memoir, takes readers on a decade-long journey north along the Appalachian Trail, beginning just after she completed her residency as a physician. The Trail tests...