Join us as we step into the blossoming spring with
Superbloom
, by cover artist
Weiwei Xu
, and disappear into future past with feature author
Robert Silverberg's
'Chip Runner' and
Leo X Robertson
's 'Bar Hopping for Astronauts'. Take a deep breath and let the aroma of the blossoms permeate your senses because taste and scents infuse
Michelle Goddard
's 'Bhut', 'The Shepherdess: Merveilles' by
JM Landels
, and 'The Smell of Screaming' by SiWC runner-up
Adrienne Gruber
. We witness the powerful and varied effects of death and mourning in 'Life Supports' by
Claire Lawrence
, and in Raven Contest winner 'Good Intentions' by
Nancy Ludmerer
. We cross the fourth wall in
Erin MacNair
's Raven Contest runner-up 'It Can Be Done with Words', we cross the desert in
Paige Elizabeth Wajda
's rhapsodic 'Heaven or Las Vegas', and we cross dimensions in
PG Streeter
's homage to Shakespeare in 'The Earth Has Bubbles'.
Phoebe Mol
washes away her troubles in the graphic version of Edna St Vincent Millay's 'O World' while Marietta puts out fire with gasoline in the next chapter of
Mel Anastasiou
's
The Extra,
'Frankie Ray and the Blazing Anubis'.