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Published: 14 Sept. 2025

Contents: Issue 30

Cheribun Galore!  
Fiction Ekphrastic Works Flash
(501–1,000 words)
Micro
(up to 500 words)
Faction Bio Notes Essays, Etcetera Statistics Visual Arts Poetry & Hybrids Cheribun Ekphrastic Works Haibun Haiga Micro-Poems Poetry: Lineated Prose Poems Tanka Prose

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Cheribun Galore! [prose + poetry]
  Part 1:
 
Colleen M. Farrelly Necessary and Sufficient Conditions [braided]
Gary S. Rosin Curtains? [+ photograph]
 
  Part 2: Long-Listed Finalists in
MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #3
 
Cynthia Anderson Charon Strikes Back
The Shadow
Colleen M. Farrelly Memory Box
Ramanujan’s House
Jane Frank Workshop
Hazel Hall Her Morning Walk [cheribun story]
Tracy Royce Open and Shut
Tandem Turd Team [humorous]
Adelaide B. Shaw Too Soon
Scott Wiggerman When I Knew: Second Grade
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Ekphrastic Works
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Owen Bullock Colour drawdowns 3 [poem], after the artwork of Laura Crehuet Berman
Excerpt from a Sydney weekend [haibun], after multiple artworks
Susan Michele Coronel Not in Memories, But in Things [prose poem], after painting by Lizzie Zelter
Kika Dorsey It’s Not Deserted [poem], after photograph by Alexis Rhone Fancher
Lynne Kemen Lake Effect [poem], after NASA photograph
Stump and Leaves [poem], after watercolor by John Phillip
Judy Kronenfeld Sheen [poem], after photograph by Vivian Maier
Shine and Verve [poem], after painting by Edward Hopper
Sharon Roseman Fears and follies [prose poem], after sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
 
Note: If you’re interested in submitting ekphrastic works to MacQueen’s Quinterly, wonderful! We hope you’ll take a few minutes to read Ephective Ekphrastics: A Guide for Verbalizing Art, tips by Jack Cooper and Clare MacQueen in KYSO Flash which include additional examples of what Clare’s looking to publish here in MacQ as well. See also the excellent recommendations from Robert L. Dean, Jr. in his essay on craft: Finding the Door: One Writer’s Approach to Ekphrasis (MacQ-13, May 2022).
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Essays, Etcetera [nonfiction forms]
Deanna Benjamin Like starfish [micro-memoir]
Bella Mahaya Carter Heirloom [micro-CNF]
Gary DeCoker Frisbee as Currency [micro-CNF]
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Fiction: Flash and Micro*
Deanna Benjamin Lilacs [micro]
Guy Biederman Butterfingers Bait [micro]
Divorcee Seeks Safe Cracker on Parole [micro]
Estate Sale [micro]
Jeffrey L. Buller See Tanka Tale below.
Richard Downing See Humor & Wordplay below.
Jennifer L. Freed See Haibun below for her haibun stories.
Jaime Gill Two Taxi Rides at Dawn [R] [flash]
Malcolm Glass From Flesh to Ashes [micro]
Gifts of the Day [micro]
Malcolm Glass See also Humor & Wordplay below.
Sheila Grether-Marion 1924: Elsa Repents [historical flash]
Hazel Hall See Cheribun Galore! above for her cheribun story.
Alaina Hammond Classic Misdirection [micro]
Rebecca Klassen Meaning of the Call [micro]
Sharon Roseman Front-row seat [micro]
Daryl Scroggins See Humor & Wordplay below.
 
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. These word counts do include titles!
 
Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Haibun [prose + haiku]
Cynthia Anderson Fade to Black
Jeffrey L. Buller See Tanka Tale below.
Owen Bullock Numbers
Owen Bullock See also Ekphrastic Works above.
Eugene Datta Diary
Jennifer L. Freed Iceberg [haibun story]
Today, Tomorrow, Always [haibun story]
David J Kelly Flash to Bang [haibun]
Turning [haibun]
Kat Lehmann Not by the Hairs of My Chinny Chin Chin [French braided]
Kat Lehmann See also Humor & Wordplay below.
Bob Lucky Desuetude
Bob Lucky See also Humor & Wordplay below.
Keith Polette Fire Stealers
Bonnie J Scherer See Humor & Wordplay below.
Daryl Scroggins On a Small Stage in Detroit
Thomas Smith Sense
Joshua St. Claire Bookbinding
On Repeat: June 21, 2025 [anomalous]
Evan Vandermeer Ashes
Lew Watts Battered
Varzuga
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art]
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Keith Polette Three Shahai [senryu + photographs]
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Humor & Wordplay
Richard Downing Everybody’s got to be someone [flash fiction]
Malcolm Glass Finesse [flash fiction]
Kat Lehmann An Interview for Floor Manager at the Haiku Factory [haibun]
Bob Lucky The Sting [haibun]
Tracy Royce See Cheribun Galore! above.
Bonnie J Scherer If It Quacks Like a Duck [haibun story]
Daryl Scroggins Early Ideas for Stories [microfiction]
Vision [microfiction]
Scott Wiggerman Marital Hell Villanelle [poem]
Visionary [poem]
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Micro-Poems*
Cynthia Anderson Rock-Jock [split sequence variation]
Lee Hudspeth Fable [split sequence, solo]
Lee Hudspeth &
Kathabela Wilson
Planetarium [tan-ku]
Thomas Smith Three Micro-Poems [haiku]
Evan Vandermeer cherished
Evan Vandermeer See also Poetry, Lineated below.
 
*Note: Beginning with Issue 7 of MacQ, micro-poems are no longer than 51 words each as counted by Mac Pages (the approximate equivalent of 280 characters, i.e., the former Twitter limit), with each word containing an average of 5.5 characters. The limit of 51 words includes punctuation, spaces between words, and the title if the micro-poem has one. Individual haiku, senryu, cherita, and tanka, for example, do not have titles. (Sequences of such micro-poems do have titles.)
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Poetry: Lineated
M. J. Arcangelini At the Dome
Deanna Benjamin Ceremony
Owen Bullock See Ekphrastic Works above.
Rick Christiansen The Morning After Anger
Stuffed Monkey [triple triolet]
Steve Deutsch Last Winter
Kika Dorsey See Ekphrastic Works above.
Colleen S. Harris Nosophobia
Peter Jastermsky &
Stephanie Zepherelli
Poems of Desire
Susan Carroll Jewell Bewilderness
Married to Sisyphus [duplex]
David J Kelly Wakefulness
Lynne Kemen See Ekphrastic Works above.
Judy Kronenfeld See Ekphrastic Works above.
Laurie Kuntz In the Absence of Healing
Alexis Rhone Fancher Your Future Between My Thighs [+ two B&W photographs]
Daryl Scroggins Cold Storage
Refuge [cherita sequence]
Thomas Smith In Saint-Véran
Thomas Smith See also Micro-Poems above.
Annie Stenzel Pseudacris cadaverina perseveres
Thomas A. Thomas Ending Song
Evan Vandermeer Two Swans
Evan Vandermeer See also Micro-Poems above.
Scott Wiggerman See Humor & Wordplay above.
Jonathan Yungkans being what George Carlin called an old fuck
mad, bad and finally going somewhere else
Surfridge [R]
 
*Note: An “[R]” after a title above indicates republished work (aka reprint).
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Prose Poems
Bella Mahaya Carter Chakra Cave Dream
Susan Michele Coronel See Ekphrastic Works above.
Eugene Datta Reflection
K. Degala-Paraíso Archipelago
Kendall Johnson Dark News I-III (prosimetra excerpted from forthcoming Fireflies collection)
Sharon Roseman A recipe for Anya
Sharon Roseman See also Ekphrastic Works above.
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Tanka Tale [prose + poetry]
Jeffrey L. Buller Quarantine Blues in B-Flat Minor
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Visual Arts
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  Part 1:
 
Keith Polette See Haiga above.
 
Alexis Rhone Fancher Two untitled photographs [B&W]
 
Part 2: Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works
 
Edward Hopper Drug Store [R] [painting]
 
NASA, SeaWiFS Project Lake Effect Snow on Earth [R] [photograph]
 
John Phillip Ivy Covered Tree Stump [R] [painting]
 
*Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints).
 
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