A few weeks ago we sent off Neon’s nominations for the 2014 Pushcart Prizes. This annual award celebrates the best of the small press. We made six nominations out of all the work that was published in Neon in 2014. Congratulations and best of luck to the authors…
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Neon Literary Magazine Issue 38
[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 38 of Neon begins with a world in which everyone has been swallowed by whales, and ends with a recurring nightmare story about a kitten. In between there are desert islands, floods and plagues, flings and wounds and Facebook, the possibility of…
The Death of the Motherless Kitten
I saw it from across the road, while waiting for the green man. It was mewling for its mother. Lost, I thought. Everybody, in their suits and ties and pencil skirts, turned to look, but they never slowed their strides. A mother and child might have stopped for a few seconds, passingly interested. I probably…