Baltimore Gothic Issue 1

Henry Tonn is a retired psychologist who has published fiction and nonfiction in such online journals as the Gettysburg Review and Santa Clara Review and such online journals as the Summerset Review and Eclectica. He is presently seeking an agent/publisher for his biographical novel about Zelda Fitzgerald entitled "We Walk Alone." He lives in Chapel Hill, NC with his white Siberian husky, Willow.

Carolyn Divish is a resident of Indianapolis where she earned her MFA from Butler University, Carolyn Divish enjoys spending time with her husband and three teenagers, who sometimes let her hang out with them. Her short stories, poetry and essays have been featured in Coachella Review, Kit Magazine, Jack and Jill Children’s Magazine, Silver Birch Press, The KeepThings and more.

Myles Robb is an undergraduate student and a fiction writer. He has previously been published in Frontier Tales Magazine Issue 175.

Joan Drescher Cooper is a Baltimore native who writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. She has published one collection of poetry, Birds Like Me, with Finishing Line Press, two short story collections and two novels with Salt Water Media of Berlin. She is a retired public school teacher who loves old houses and gardening.

It began with a smell – faint, creeping, and sickly sweet at first, but the sweet gave way to rancid within a few weeks, by May first.

All I wanted was a glass of wine, a Southern vintage to dilute the many foreign sensations that make one feel homesick. If only such a cure for loneliness were permanent.

Construction announces New Boss’s arrival before the HR department bothers to notify us. We watch from a safe distance as the crew erases the last artifacts of our Old Boss and replaces them with strange new things for New Boss, such as soft velvet chairs and carved tables. We find this ominous, even though we know nothing about her. One thing is certain: she takes up more space. Her office expansion eats our break room. New Boss’s first day soon arrives. We began prepar