“Lighthouses are not meant to be in the water. They are not boats in the water, they are light. They are projecting light while crazy and wondrous waves crash on the shore and lost Sailors are out looking for the lighthouse.”
— esmerelda, a mermaid
short fiction by P.M. Baird, Megan Murphy, David Pratt, Ian Wuertz; flash by Martin Agee, Jason Taylor, Jake Zawlacki; poetry by Marianne Brems, Elizabeth Cohen, Carol Despeaux Fawcett, Jean Janicke, Emily Freeborn, Majena Mafe, Lesley Rogers Hobbs, Kathy Whitham; visual art by Arthur Doweyko, Tanya Fillbrook, Phyllis Green, Janis Butler Holm, Jim Zola