Contents

Eternal Vigilance
Time Out
by Donna Hooley
Artwork: The Greater Good by Will Jacques: 1

Missing 1
Missing 2
Ghost Dancers
Nothing Permanent 41 Welcome to My Party
by Gina Wisker
Artwork: Untitled 53, Untitled 54, and Untitled 49 by Gill Robinson: 2

coyotes run faster than wolves
Little (Red)
A seal is born with two skins, and keeps only one
by Marisca Pichette
Artwork: A Girl and Her Dog by Will Jacques: 3

A Perfect World
by Michael Furlong
Artwork: One of Many Falls by Will Jacques: 4

Outsider
by Damir Salkovic
Artwork: Run for the Trees by Will Jacques: 5

Alice
by Andrew Hart
Artwork: Like the First Morning by Will Jacques: 6

Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir
by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Artwork: The Goblin's House by Will Jacques: 7

Old Joe
by Nicholas Alexander
Artwork: Jakhot's Trolls by Will Jacques: 8

Mr Guthrie's Familiar
The Bark
by Glenn Dungan
Artwork: A Beautiful New Cage by Will Jacques: 9

Be Careful What You Wish For
by Maureen Mancini Amaturo
Artwork: Rising from the Garbage by Will Jacques: 10

Eternal Home
Birdcage
by Michael Warnes
Artwork: Dead Dolly Running by Will Jacques: 11

Catacombs
by Tony Daly
Artwork: Hunting House Haunters by Will Jacques: 12

Planet Yizzaro
by Stephen Druce
Artwork: The Pecking Variant by Will Jacques: 13

Not So Fun Night in Funland: William Peden’s “Night in Funland”
by David Pendery: 14

Book Reviews by Gina Wisker
British Library Tales of the Weird: Doomed Romances, Strange Tales of Uncanny Love (2024), ed. Joanna Ella Parsons (303pp.)
Cast From Darkness: Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo (2023), Mind's Eye Publications, Elgin. (79pp): 15

The Witch's Song
by Andrew Brenza
Artwork: The Horned Eye by Will Jacques: 16

Season of the Dead
by J.S. Watts
Artwork: The Four Vomiters by Will Jacques: 17

The Life of a Literary Man
by Katherine Kerestman: 18







Dissections Editorial Board

From left to right: Gina Wisker, David Sandner, Michael A. Arnzen, (Al Wendland) and Lawrence Connolly



                                        Frances Auld (for student                                                       submissions)      

          Michael A. Arnzen

   
     Brian Attebery

    Clive Bloom

               Lawrence C. Connolly
                                              
              William Hughes

       Nickianne Moody

            Stephanie Moss

                                         Xavier Aldana-Reyes                 


                        Marie Mulvey-Roberts

            David Sandner

   Andrew Smith


              Angela Tenga


                                           Linda Holland-Toll (for reviews)


                          Graeme Wend-Walker

Gina Wisker