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The Other
Library
by Simon
MacCulloch
Stay out of there.
The dust has grown tentacles, drooped round the uppermost
shelves.
That’s not for you.
The Nazi, his lighter, a petrol-slick woman in chains.
Don’t you ever do that again—
The corpse of John Creasey, undead in the barrow outside.
Making me take them all out
That paperback, Twisted, it told of the playground you knew—
Then buying just one.
The scrapes and the scabs and the sun through the bars of
the cage.
You’re the one who’s twisted, you are.
Simon MacCulloch lives in London
and publishes poetry in Spectral Realms, Black Petals, Dreams and Nightmares, Pulsebeat
Poetry Journal, and others.
Cindy Rosmus originally hails from the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ, once voted the “unfriendliest
city on the planet.” She talks like Anybodys from West Side Story and everybody
from Saturday Night Fever. Her noir/horror/bizarro
stories have been published in the coolest places, such as Shotgun
Honey; Megazine; Dark Dossier; The Rye Whiskey Review,
Under the Bleachers, and Rock and a Hard Place. She is the editor/art
director of Yellow Mama. She’s published seven collections of short stories. Cindy is
a Gemini, a Christian, and an animal rights advocate. She has recently
branched out into photo illustration.
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