# 1: Tranquility
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Our premier issue is an eclectic mix of poems, short story and a travel tale. Each writer has given their perspective and interpretation of their understanding of the theme “Tranquility.” For some, it is a loss, for others it is an awakening, while a portrait that sparks the feeling of restfulness for someone else. We hope that our endeavor can gratify every reader’s penchant thirst for tranquility.
Poems : Death
by Valentina Cano,
Awakenings by Gary Beck,
Potrait by April A.,
Noticing The Moment by
Harry Calhoun
Short Story : Not Much by
William Cass
Travel Tale : Beach
Vacation With A Twist by
Nayanna Chakrbarty
Death
By Valentina Cano
The quiet tiptoes on the broken nails
that lead into the house.
It smells of vinegar and starched napkins.
A tail of gunpowder trails after it,
its grains sprinkled like pollen on the floor.
With a breath the color of ice-water,
it settles the chairs,
calms the doorframes,
prepares a house for submersion.
Room by room,
it sends a spark,
blue, opaque, sibilant in its path.
The powder takes flight
an explosive confetti that hovers for
a millisecond in the blinking air.
The quiet drops,
bursting to quicklime.
Out of the rolling echoes,
the quiet rises,
a slow exhale of breath.
Valentina Cano is a student of classical singing who spends whatever free time either writing or reading. Her works have appeared in Exercise Bowler, Blinking Cursor, Theory Train, Magnolia's Press, Cartier Street Press, Berg Gasse 19, Precious Metals and will appear in the upcoming editions A Handful of Dust, The Scarlet Sound, The Adroit Journal, Perceptions Literary Magazine, Welcome to Wherever, The Corner Club Press, Death Rattle, Danse Macabre, Subliminal Interiors, Generations Literary Journal, Super Poetry Highway, Stream Press, Stone Telling, Popshot and Perhaps I'm Wrong About the World.You can find her here: coldbloodedlives.blogspot.com