Spring 2018 Genres
Forward ♦ Editor's Corner ♦ Fiction ♦ Drama ♦ Creative Nonfiction ♦ Poetry ♦ Music ♦ Art and Photography ♦ Interviews (Archie Borders and Todd Keisling) ♦ Spring 2018 Staff ♦ Spring 2018 Award Winners and Launch Party Photos
Fiction
The Great Pirate City by Desa Leonard
Neighbor Jack by Harriet Norris
A Nobody's Fantasy by Kamela Popiwczak
Coming Home by Morgan Enix
Reap City by Sarah Pigg
Drama
Mortal: A Short Play by Erick Collings
Creative Nonfiction
Therapy by Abigail Byrd
Alfonso by Christine Hubbard
I’m Afraid of the McDonald’s Cashier by Darby Campbell
Bubble Wrap by Kamela Popiwczak
Roar of Fans by Timothy Grills
Poetry
Gravity Switched On by Abby Naser
Fool Notion by Abigail Byrd
I Have Fallen by Chaise Robinson
Above an Antique Land by Erick Collings
Son by Eric Smothers
Pomegranates by Jordan Connelly
Running by Logan Burris
"loving a girl with gentle hands" by Megan Gray
Sun and Moon by Rachel Hampton
Perfectly Ordinary by Victoria Leggett
Music
The Prelude of Dorian Gray by Rachel Lachut
His and Mine by Keaton Todd
Art and Photography
To view individual works listed below, please visit our Art and Photography page.
Re-Composition of a Fool by Abigail Byrd
One Good Dog by Ashley Albano
Where's the Beef? by Elvalina Howard
Depression by Emily Hutchison
Freckles by Haley Beumel
Venice by Jill Angelle
Perfect Mason by Lindsay Brubaker
Hourglass by Lona Morgan
Asphyxiate by Rebecca James
Light Pools by Samantha Pierie
Interviews
An Interview with Archie Borders by Marissa Massey
ARCHIE BORDERS, film director/producer/screenwriter, is interviewed by Marissa Massey (Editor-in Chief of Aurora's Literary Arts) for Eastern Kentucky University's online literary and arts journal, Aurora. Interview took place in Louisville, Ky at Mr. Border's company-180 Degrees Productions.
- Archie Borders Interview Video
- Archie Border Interview Video Transcript
- Full Interview with Archie Border (written)
The 1984 edition of Aurora includes Archie Borders' Short Story, "A Little Breezy" (found on page 3)
An Interview with Todd Keisling by Jared Rose
KEISLING is the author of A Life Transparent, The Liminal Man, and the critically-acclaimed novella, The Final Reconciliation. His most recent release is the horror collection, Ugly Little Things: Collected Horrors, available now from Crystal Lake Publishing. He lives somewhere in the wilds of Pennsylvania with his family where he is at work on his next novel.
