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"People like colours. The desert of black and white bores them. People, like colours, blend to create new shades." ánthēma by Lav: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/ant…

This month's issue includes art by Sherry Shahan, CNF by Natalie Solmer, fiction by Madeline Kaprich, and poetry by Cyrus Nasib, Annabelle Taghinia, Ethan Mershon, and Nicholas Alti vagabondcitylit.com/tag/issue-108/

+ opportunities for writers and artists from Small Harbor Publishing, ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press, and RIC Journal vagabondcitylit.com/2025/06/16/opp…

"birds pecking fruit, fallen to the ground, mangoes abound, in varieties unbound. alphonso, neelam, malgova, imam pasand, chengavarkai, raw mangoes and salt, a flavour so sublime" Summer’s Delight by Beena E.S. ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/sum…

"On some nights — I imagine the trains in a faint telephone ring; escaping a hundred landfalls, disappearing stars, and potheads. The rotary dial coughs a half-moon Hamsadhwani for a wage of disfigured murmur." At the End of Touch by Ronald Tuhin D'Rozario: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/at-…

"Yes, living here would fix me and the miraculous, sweet fruit of your bath has me leaning on the orchard ladder picking apples from your spine." Nude by Damon Hubbs: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/nud…

ICYMI: I hope you all will enjoy my new short fiction included in the annual themed issue of RIC Journal, May 2025. ✽ The Ungrateful Crêperie ✽ via ricjournal.com/2025/04/30/the… ….. *GIF Photography: hiromi suzuki

"There’s no letting-down of nudity. I keep posing. Living is exteriorising: but to die not knowing death!" Inhabit by Mathew Jasper: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/inh…

"He would contemplate the fish, careful not to step on it, and think about silence – listen, for a moment, for a split second, a millisecond, an epsilon of pure and total soundlessness. Was it even possible?" The Dead Man in Limbo by Tristan Foster: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/the…

"amaltaas bursts at its seams the burning may sun brings it to a full rapture life bursts in yellow spilling onto the streets like warm honey cascading the neighborhood" Memoire by dëë: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/mem…

ICYMI: I hope you all will enjoy my new prose in the latest issue of RIC Journal in June 2025. ✽ Under the Blackcurrant Shrub ✽ ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/und… … *GIF Photography: hiromi suzuki

Delighted to have a poem in the Yearbook Indian Poetry in English 2024. Thanks to editors Vinita Agrawal sukrita paul kumar and the review committee and Pippa Rann Books & Media (PRBM). Also grateful to RIC Journal where it found it's first home.

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