Welcome to issue 26 of ESC! Magazine.

This issue is filled with a number of great new shorts including "Changing Seasons" by Erin Neal and R.A. Allen's "Poolside". Other authors featured this issue include William Cass, Dev Jarrett and ESC! veteran Kendra Paredes Hayden.

Poetry selections this issue include Joseph Goosey and the return this issue of Mike Kriesel, Norman J. Olson and G. Scott Hughes.

The cover, "Screw Loose 004", is from Cave Moon Press' Doug Johnson and Paul Tucker returns with a special Fall-themed "Vex: Devil's Night".

In our Reading Lounge, we've got four new chapbook reviews from ESC! Magazine Poetry Editor, Charles Ries.

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Table of Contents

ARTWORK

Cover: Screw Loose 004
Doug Johnson

Vex: Devil's Night
Paul Tucker

FICTION

Changing Seasons
Erin Neal

Dancing With Marilaya
Kendra Paredes Hayden

Poolside
R.A. Allen

I Heard You Calling
William Cass

I Know You
Dev Jarrett

& - POETRY

Plums and Wind
Joseph Goosey

The Future Greats
G. Scott Hughes

SILO
Mike Kriesel

Winter Walk
Norman J. Olson

THE READING LOUNGE

CHAPBOOK REVIEWS by Charles Ries