Hey, welcome back! 2020 is finally behind us and I say good riddance...I don't know about anyone else, but I'm tired. Tired of the Covid. Tired of the political unrest. Tired of so many great people losing their lives during 2020. Of course, that's part of getting older—watching the herd thin out. Guess I should be glad I'm still here, huh?

Got a pretty strange lineup this time for ya. Couple of monster-in-the-basement stories, one by Justin Swartz about the monster he never knew and one by Clive Owen Barry involving a serial killer. Then we have an elevator story by C. M. Barnes, whose protagonist gets the ride of his life. And there’s even a fairy story. Yeah, I know. Not supposed to take those at BP, but The Beating of Their Wings, by Brian Maycock was just different enough to catch our attention.

Inconceivable, by Rich Rose, is a completely different take on what to tell your kid when they wanna know where babies come from.

Our flash fiction this issue runs the gamut all the way from Roy Dorman’s Flora and Fauna, a strange tale of things that weren’t there just a minute ago, to KJ Hannah Greenberg’s story of a young lass with a strange set of choppers in Special Teeth.

We also have quite a lineup of poetry this time around. We got so many good subs in the poetry department we had to bump some up to the next issue. Hillary Lyon, C. D. Marcum, Donna Dallas, Christopher Hivner, Juan Manuel Perez, Meg Smith and David Barber have provided us with no less than eighteen poems! That’s a bunch for BP, but we like it. We hope you will too.