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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Published: 20 Sept. 2026

Contents: Issue 34

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

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Cheribun Galore! [prose + poetry]
  Part 1:
 
Joanna Ashwell In and Out of Sleep
Colleen M. Farrelly and Terri L. French Zigzag
Terri L. French and Colleen M. Farrelly Don’t Bug Me [cheribun story, humorous]
Daryl Scroggins Things I Didn’t Know I Would Remember [sequence]
 
  Part 2: Long-Listed Finalists in
MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #4
 
Cynthia Anderson Bad Behavior
Tina Barry Poser Perplexed [cheribun story]
Susan Burch Voice Boxed In
Billie Dee Kibble [micro cheribun]
Locale
Carol Dorf With Dignity and Compassion
Margaret Dornaus Night Shift
Colleen M. Farrelly Monday Blues
Hazel Hall The Getting of Knowledge
Tricia Knoll Octogenarian Contrarian
Bob Lucky Ready! Set! Go!
Tracy Royce Both at Once
Dementia with Lewy Bodies [micro cheribun]
Jane Salmons Forever Breakfasting at Tiffany’s [cheribun story]
Daryl Scroggins The Zookeeper’s Adopted Daughter [cheribun story, ekphrastic]
Joshua St. Claire Neap Tide
Scott Wiggerman Wasting Away in the Seventies [braided]
What a Smile Hides
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Ekphrastic Works
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Cynthia Bale Common Threads [micro tanka prose], after textile art
Untitled [tanka], after terracotta sculpture
Loose Ends [tanka tale], after photograph
Roy J. Beckemeyer Uses and Meanings: Liturgy [CNF], after Mesoamerican sculpture
Brian O’Sullivan Sometimes He Feels Like an Ass [poem], after a painting
Gary S. Rosin Slam [poem], after painting by Octavio Quintanilla
Jane Salmons Snowdrop [microfiction], after a painting
Daryl Scroggins See Cheribun above.
 
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]
Kendall Johnson The Poetics of Light (Part 6 of Writing for Light series) [essay, with paintings]
About Those Fireflies [essay, with photographs by Susan Ilsley]
Daryl Scroggins See Cheribun above for his memoir piece.
Rachel Weinhaus When the Woods Were an Ocean [micro-memoir]
 
An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections.
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Fiction: Flash and Micro*
Gary Fincke See Humor and Wordplay below.
Beverly A. Tift See Humor and Wordplay below.
 
Mark LaMonda Bad Water [micro]
 
Joan Leotta See Humor and Wordplay below for her microfiction.
 
Alexis Rhone Fancher Midnight Stroll [micro]
Jane Salmons Long Haul to Libreville Beauty Expo [micro]
Jane Salmons See also Ekphrastic Works above and Humor and Wordplay below.
Rachel Weinhaus Toast [micro]
 
*Note: At MacQ, Flash Fiction = 501-1,000 words, and Microfiction, no more than 500 words. Word count of each piece includes the title and any epigraphs.
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Haibun Forms
Ella Aboutboul Morning
Matthew Caretti Coming to Grief
Top Three for the Apocalypse
Jennifer L. Freed In the Cards
Maryanne Hannan Sisters, Shall I Speak?
Maryanne Hannan See also Humor and Wordplay below.
Stephen W. Leslie Eclipse
Bob Lucky This Is How It Works
Brian O’Sullivan Hot Air
Thinking About the Roman Empire
Sherry Reniker Mea Culpa
Potlatch Forecast
Ce Rosenow Sin City [micro]
Carla Schwartz writer [can’t] write [micro]
You’re It
Daryl Scroggins Any Way You Cut It
Gift of the Magpie [micro]
Beverly A. Tift How to Scramble Your Day [micro]
Keyboard Spelling
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Haiga & Related Forms [poetry + visual art]
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Terri L. French Five Shahai [haiku + photographs]
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Humor and Wordplay
Guy Biederman End of the Beginning [prose poem]
Gary Fincke The Long Line for Brains [microfiction]
 
Terri L. French and Colleen M. Farrelly See Cheribun Galore! above for their cheribun story.
 
Maryanne Hannan Never Hurts to Look About [haibun]
Overheard [haibun]
Joan Leotta Overheard Coming from the Dressing Room Next to Mine While Shopping for College Wardrobe [microfiction]
Jane Salmons King Roland [microfiction]
Beverly A. Tift Meanwhile, at the Red Dog Saloon [microfiction, sci-fi]
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Micro-Poems*
Cynthia Bale See Ekphrastic Works above.
Billie Dee See Cheribun Galore! above.
 
Goran Gatalica Five Micro-Poems [haiku]
 
Ce Rosenow See Haibun Forms above.
Carla Schwartz See Haibun Forms above.
Daryl Scroggins See Haibun Forms above.
Beverly A. Tift See Haibun Forms above.
 
Harriot West and
Ce Rosenow
between the lines [rengay]
Jonathan Yungkans Untitled (Line 1: been thinking of the hawk) [cherita], with three photographs
 
*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 the title if the micro-poem has one. Individual haiku, senryu, cherita, and tanka, for example, do not have titles.
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Poetry: Lineated
Rose Mary Boehm The Man Who Would Never Marry
Robert L. Dean, Jr. A Drive in Life
Roseanne Freed Rerooting
Yoo-hoo, Spring
Gary Grossman Night Terrors
Maryanne Hannan If You Don’t Count the “Y”
Jack D. Harvey Gandhi’s Visit to il Duce
Porsche Jones And When We Die It All Sinks into the Earth
Bernadette McComish Death Dealer
Brian O’Sullivan See Ekphrastic Works above.
Ce Rosenow and
Harriot West
doo wop doo wop doo wop [rengay]
Gary S. Rosin See Ekphrastic Works above.
Judith Yarrow Wells Echo, Time and Again
Jonathan Yungkans “It was a strange figure—”
Untitled (Line 1: Dave came downstairs looking)
Jonathan Yungkans See also Micro-Poems above.
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Prose Poems
Guy Biederman Smeg
Guy Biederman See also Humor & Wordplay above.
Louis Faber Duck
On the Riverside
Oz Hardwick Late Flowering
Palaeontology for the Home
Bob Lucky in/on, out/off
Bernadette McComish Summer 1999
Curt Pawlisch Captiva Island [sequence]
Tracy Royce Last chance for spooky savings ... our Halloween sale ends tonight!
Rachel Weinhaus Short Left Eyebrow Theories
Jonathan Yungkans FISH
Untitled (Lines 1-2: Jesus / a bronze statue)
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Tanka Forms
Cynthia Bale See Ekphrastic Works above.
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Visual Arts
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Part 1:
 
Terri L. French See Haiga & Related Forms above for her shahai.
 
Susan Ilsley For her photographs, see entry for Kendall Johnson’s “About Those Fireflies” under Essays, Etcetera above.
 
Kendall Johnson For his paintings, see entry for “The Poetics of Light” under Essays, Etcetera above.
 
Part 2: Inspirations for Ekphrastic Works:
 
Eastman Johnson The Pets [R] (1856) [painting]
 
Octavio Quintanilla Frontexto 123-25, 51 [R] [painting]
 
Unknown Terracotta Head of a Woman [R]
(299-101 BCE) [Greek Tarentine sculpture]
 
Unknown The Tuxtla Statuette [R] (ca. 162 CE)
[Epi-Olmec carving, jadeite diopside]
 
Unknown Carpet Fragment [R] (13th-14th century) [Turkish weaving]
 
Note: An “[R]” after titles above indicates republished works (aka reprints) from curated collections.
 
 
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