 Hit Me Baby by Jeff Hill Sacred Chickens is delighted to publish this original story by Jeff Hill, a truly original writer and friend of the chickens. Traveling back into the city from my small hometown of a less-than-impressive population of three hundred, I couldn’t help but think of what had transpired over the last week. I had quit my job, broken up with my girlfriend, lost my best friend, and the strangest thing is; none of those were what had changed me as a person. It was a strange encounter on the interstate that made me question everything I had ever known to be true, whether it was the laws of physics, the existence of a higher power, or even something as simple as the horribleness that lurks deep within every human being. Psych ward patients are good listeners, and that is why I chose to work as a doctor in a low-security facility in the big city. Small town guy from a sheltered life, full of rich parents who don’t look it, six older sisters, one younger brother, and the notion of high school let alone college being unthinkable. That pretty much describes the first twenty years of my life. A doctor in psychiatry, living in a not-too-shabby apartment with his best friend of eight years, until just recently, and looking for a new reason to not give up on the entire female gender.
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 Roy Peak Reviews Afton Wolf Afton Wolfe Kings For Sale Grandiflora Records Emotional and Rough-Edged Jazzy Country-Blues Afton Wolfe released his debut EP in 2020;. Petronius’ Last Meal and was full of jazzy Country-Blues and rough-edged vocals, with a batch of well-written songs. Kings For Sale reprises that formula; while kicking it up a notch with a colorful production by Grammy winner Oz Fritz that includes plenty of horns and some winsome pedal steel to go with Wolfe’s gruff, evocative voice. The cover image shows Wolfe seemingly looking backward and forward at the same time, his inner thoughts reflecting on his outer self? A good primer for the music it accompanies. The lead off track, “Paper Piano,” is a rocking delight complete with a perfectly matched horn section and rollicking piano. The risqué “Dirty Girl” has a New Orleans flavor, making broad use of Wolfe’s sandpaper rough vocals and some simmering blues by his studio band. Click here to read the rest of the review!  4 Poems by Charlie Robert Like Heathcliff on the Moor He comes in the worst part of the night. The moon has either set or never risen. There are no intelligent constellations anywhere. His Mother rips off her dress as he slides fishlike from her V. His Amniotic Sack. The Caul of Good Fortune. His eyes. Dark and bright. She names him Judas because she likes the name. When he is twenty-two he will Win the War. Across the hall someone else is born and lives three minutes. The air. Filled with a high pitched keening. Like Heathcliff on the moor.  Fragments of a Revolution Author, Seb Doubinsky by Naomi Ulsted Seb Doubinsky’s novel, Fragments of a Revolution, plunges the reader into a world of violence in the first few pages. The reader will come to find the nuances, quirks and beauties within our narrator, Lorenzo’s memories of this failed 1969 revolution in Mexico, but Doubinsky makes sure the reader can’t forget this is no joke, an idealistic adventure, but not without violent consequences.
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