Cold River Press

FANTASIES, DEMONS
& LOVERS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

It's time for another issue of VOICES. Send us your short stories, poetry, prose, flash fiction...that explore your Fantasies, your Demons and your Lovers.
Deadline for submissions is June 15th, 2022. Please send to submissions@coldriverpress.com

I'll get us started:

SHAMBHALA

I dreamt of you
Those many years ago
When schools of fish carried me
Across the raging sea
A crescent moon beckoning
In a turquoise sky

Your image remained
Long after I had washed ashore
Delicate hands reaching down
To calm my fears
A kind smile lifting
My broken soul

In that moment
All was pure

The knowledge you imparted
Resonating through me

On nights when the wind
Churns the water
Into an iridescent foam
I see the turquoise sky
Gleaming through the clouds
Your memory holding

A taste of salt
Crosses my lips

An errant tear
Seeps down

It is enough to sustain me
Opening a path
Where dreams remain

	ALL MY CROWS Yuan Changming
VOICES 2021 An Offering Of Fruit	HAT FULL OF LEAVES Stanley Zumbiel	WATER DREAMS Joe Nolan
ALIVE IN AMERICA dave boles	15 Days To Slow The Curve dave boles	COYOTE MAGIC dave boles
Language Of The Tea Leaves Sue Daly	CABO DAYS Dave Boles	Hyouhakusha: Desolate Travels Of A Junkie On The Road T. William Wallin-sato
DISTANT LIGHTS by D.R. WAGNER
Dreams, Desires, Delusions	UNDER A MILK GLASS MOON Lelania Fowler	ARTIFACTS Tom Hedt
Borders And Boundaries Bill Pieper	The Distance Between Us jim bourey	QUIET ROOMS An Anthology
Rungs Of The Ladder Phil Weidman	Windows Of Time & Place Taylor Graham	Tough Enough Poems From The TOBs
The Order Of Events Wagner & Alexander	Sacramento Voices 2018	Crazy John Poems A. D. Winans
Simple Sweetness Barbara West	STORM FOOTED D. R. Wagner	Sacramento Voices 2017
LOVE POEMS D. R. Wagner	BLUE LAMENTATIONS Sharon Gariepy Frye	Sacramento Voices 2016
Uplift Taylor Graham	Spider Season Susan Kelly-DeWitt	In Chaparral Wendy Williams
West Of Angels Allegra Silberstein	The Near Enough Michael Keith	Rumor Silva Zanoyan Merjanian National 2015 Book Winner
Forgive Me Father Bill Pieper	Sacramento Voices 2014 Edited by Phillip Larrea	Sacramento Voices 2015 Edited by Phillip Larrea
Remembering Eternity D. R. Wagner	Bones, Skin & Soul David Iribarne	Out Of Reach Cynthia Linville
We The People Phillip Larrea	In The Rear View Mirror Phil Weidman	97 POEMS D. R. Wagner

The Lost Thing Cynthia Linville	Sacramento Voices 2013	Black Ink Junkie Dave Boles

The View From Mt. Aukum Ben Hiatt	Homage To A Word Dave Boles	Phoenix Fire Tim O'Laughlin

Some Sort Of Easy Life Mark Weber	Offerings Dave Boles	A Small Answer To A Large Question Dave Boles

Do Aluminum Chickens Eat Metal Feed? Dave Boles	You Tore Us Meri St. Mary	Media Dissertation Of A Balding Man Dave Boles

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BLESS ME FATHER
Terry Reis Kennedy

130 pages, plus cover
6 x 9, Perfect Bound

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Terry Reis Kennedy�s Bless Me Father is the journey of a survivor, finding
a path up from traumatic childhood abuse in the church, to a plateau of spiritual rediscovery, where the pieces become whole.
Her journey is inspiring.

~ Jason Berry, Author

Sweetness. Joy. Nature spirits and the fragrance of the sea. There is a bright red cardinal eating his breakfast on the backyard wall, he knows me as a busy, determined gardener, a woman who writes poems and stories in a little studio attached to a two car garage in the suburbs, south of Boston.

My 27 years in India, living in the ashram village of my Guru, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Prasanthi Nilayam (The Abode of Highest Peace) helped restore me to sanity and gave me the courage to love myself, to forgive myself, and to love and forgive those who were my abusers as well. I came to understand what Jesus, the Christ, had already prayed; "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do".

~ Terry Reis Kennedy