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Editor's Page, Issue # 110, June 15th, 2025

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Art by Bernice Holtzman and Mandi Rose © 2025

Editor’s Page – Yellow Mama Issue #110 (June 15, 2025)

 

Hi all!

There’s so much going on all over, some bad, some good. We can’t let the bad stuff get to us. I’m still recovering from my broken ankle, but on Memorial Day I reached an age that neither of my parents and none of my grandparents did. Way to go, right? And an awesome way to welcome summer!

Whether you’re lying on the beach or in your air-conditioned rooms, Yellow Mama has got the best summer reads for you.

Like great noir from Zachary Wilhide featuring my fave thugs: Green Johnny and Priest. In “Crossroads,” Greenie is stomach sick on one of their jobs. Armand Rosamilia’s “Princess on the Pillow” gives us a hit man who has an unforgettable Christmas Eve. J. B. Stevens’s “Climat Perfume Is a Capitalist Decadence” features a reality show couple who turns to crime. In Pamela Ebel’s tale, “The Dead Key!” helps a steamer trunk stowaway get revenge. And in Stephen Lochton Kincaid’s story, a grieving father finally gets “Justice” when a jovial PI locates the perp.

Other fun stories include Kenneth James Crist’s “Yellow,” in which a yellow-eyed alien possesses every female a misogynist trucker meets. Robert Jeschonek’s distinctive “How to Backmask Liner Notes” might recall the “I buried Paul” hoax. And introducing “shogun noir” with Charlie Kondeck’s flash stories “Merciless Ono” and “The Samurai’s Signal.”

Our poetry lineup features works by horror poet John Grey and other regulars, such as Daniel G. Snethen, Damon Hubbs, and Michael Keshigian. Also check out fine poems by YM newcomer Yucheng Tao.

Full-length and flash fiction stories (and some poems) are individually illustrated by our gifted artists: Bernice Holtzman, Joseph Richkus, Kevin Duncan, Hillary Lyon, J. Elliott, Sophia Wiseman-Rose, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Steve Cartwright, Michael D. Davis, Henry Stanton, Darren Blanch, Ann Marie Rhiel, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Katherine Sikes, April Lafleur, Kelly Moyer, Zachary Wilhide, and Mandi Rose.

Also check out our “seedy beach noir” cover by Bernice Holtzman and Joseph Richkus!

If you want to submit full-length fiction, flash fiction, or poetry, check out our guidelines page.

 

Also, please sign our guestbook! If you have comments about Yellow Mama or any stories or poems we publish, you may leave comments there.

And check out our Archives IIII to catch recent stories or poems by your favorite writers you might’ve missed.

 And thanks for reading!

  

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