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Paul Dickey

Paul Dickey has poetry forthcoming or in recent issues of Southern Poetry Review, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, the Cider Press Review, Rattle, and multiple other online and print publications. His first chapbook, What Wisconsin Took, was published by the Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin Libraries – Madison, in May 2006. Biographical information and additional notes on previous publishing activity can be found at mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/dickey.htm.

Lennon and McCartney

20 May 2007
Vol. 7, No. 1
fiction, flash fiction, speculative fiction

Sixty-two year old Paul McCartney, a bankrupt businessman of Liverpool, strolled down Penny Lane watching children laugh behind the back of a banker with a motorcar. He worried how he was going to pay the rent due next week on his flat across the hall from Father McKenzie. He carried an old transistor radio that he had pilfered from the junkshop down by Strawberry Fields.

Departure for Cause

2 September 2004
Vol. 4, No. 3
poetry

Snowflakes here fall like all the others.

They may as well be microscopic,

crushed bones. They cannot melt

even if the ground somehow forgives.