After Hours

AFTER HOURS: VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1

“And may the streetlights be your guide…”

 

Poetry

Editor’s Choice: Under the Cherry Bush

Easy Lovers/ Retired Cigars 

We do not fear death, but the thought of death

Unwanted Visitor 

Nightswimming 

broken doors and melancholy 

It’s Like They Don’t Even Know What Happened on Tuesday 

Veteran of the Dark 

Stray kids

Midnight Friends

Sleepless 

Somebody I Knew, Nobody I Know

The Runaway

Hollow Bones (And Farewell To This City)

I want to be a star

Afterwinter

(“Under the Light” (2022), Gianna Carruth)

 

 

Fiction

Editor’s Choice: A Family Matter

Stars

Slaughterhouse Shaman

Concrete Paradise

Coasting: A Correspondence Between Canal and Detective

Can I Call You Tonight?

Late Night Memories

Johnny Ace and the Devil Cat

(Untitled (2021), Libby Wigington)

 

 

Script

Editor’s Choice: Fedoras and Jazz

The Tax Collector of Late Night Love

Unloyal

Joan, But Not of Arc

When The Children Are Tucked In

Mitch’s Ditch

Anxiety Hours

Little Speck of Stardust

 

(“Red Rat” (2022), Elisa Duran Salinas)

 

 

Prose

The City

The Sheets Come Alive and I Am The Only Living Boy 

 

 

 

 

(“Dreams” (2022), Sabina Ramon)