Welcome to issue 24 of ESC! Magazine.

Angela Mankiewicz's short, "Laura Hanson's 1990" continues this issue. Stay with us until April if you want to catch the conclusion! Also in our short fiction, you'll find a number of great new shorts from Terry Sanville, Joyce G. Bradshaw, BV Lawson, Ron Richardson and Ryan Dilbert's "Hiroki's Resurrection Bash."

Our poetry selections include works by Peter Schwartz, Duane Locke, Louis McKee and long-time ESC! Magazine reader favorite, Farida Mihoub.

ESC! Magazine's resident artist, Paul Tucker contributes this issue's cover, "Luna".

And in our Reading Lounge, Poetry Editor Charles Ries has prepared two new chapbook reviews for your reading pleasure.

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Table of Contents

ARTWORK

Cover: Luna
Paul Tucker

FICTION

Never Underestimate
Joyce G. Bradshaw

Hiroki's Resurrection Bash
Ryan Dilbert

The Pilgrim
BV Lawson

Laura Hanson's 1990
Angela Mankiewicz

The Leaf
Ron Richardson

Interrupting Martyrdom
Terry Sanville

& - POETRY

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Duane Locke

Misreading a Title
Louis McKee

Don't Blame Me
Gone
Farida Mihoub

What Wasn't (Ode to an Atheist)
Peter Schwartz

THE READING LOUNGE

CHAPBOOK REVIEWs by Charles Ries