Welcome to 34 Orchard, the literary journal that delights in exploring what haunts us all. In our biannual issues, we will bring you tales of terror, tales of unrest, tales of sadness. If you enjoy dark stories with a subtext, then you’ve reached your destination. All you’ve left to do is walk up the rickety porch steps and knock on the door.
Issue 5, Spring 2022 includes:
Mister Skinandbones
Selah Janel/7
Any Little Spot
Ali Seay/10
Less Than Twelve Hours After She Is Dead, We Begin
To Erase Her
Lynne Schmidt/17
Showdown at Dark Rock
Douglas Van Hollen/19
Mollusk Madness
Priscilla Bettis/26
Yet Another Poem About Birds
Robert Bulman/34
Gone for Good
M.C. Herrington/36
Bummin’ to the Beat of the Road
Eric J. Guignard/42
Cell
Victoria Nordlund/54
Little Red
Paula Weiman/56
Day One Hundred and Sixty-Four
Sam Berkeley/59
Mommy Monster
Elizabeth Falcon/69
Rereading Auden
David Donna/76
Floor Five
Die Booth/77
The Mascot
B.C.G. Jones/82
Not All There
Ken Craft/92
Lexie
Kimberly Moore/94
The Price of Survival
X. Culletto/101
Chernobyl Spring
David Holper/104
A Cracked Screen
Alice Avoy/105
Excerpts from Kinesiophobia
(Speculative Memoir) ♥ Meghan Guidry/111
Scrapbook
Kevin Grandfield/116
What if he remembers?
Judi Calhoun/118
Around Here Somewhere
Jeff Adams/120
Contributors
127