Digital Issue No. 3 | The New Engagement

Digital Issue No. 3

The New Engagement September 2016 Cover
September
2016

Literature

Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Essays

Longings, a Collection

Longings, a Collection

By Raymond Luczak

Craving spans millennia. The need to feel loved is timeless. A desire for autonomy transcends all mortal naggings.

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Valero BioPark

Zer0: Emancipation, Chapter 17

By Jessica Deaver

The third installment of Jessica Deaver’s hypnotic dystopian novel. Now monthly.

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The Blood Flow Game

The Blood Flow Game

By Seamus Scanlon

The ruthless set the rules. The loser wins a hard truth. And no one cheats the grave.

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Black-On-Black Crime is a Myth

Black-On-Black Crime Is A Myth

By Craig Davidson

A tired, bigotry-veiled argument is fittingly upended.

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A Very Serious Matter

A Very Serious Matter

By Mark Elzey

An Arizona family is swept up in the unstoppable machinery of war.

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Removing the Poison

Removing The Poison

By Rachel Cuevas

A clean getaway from the past proves more formidable than originally thought.

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Art

Film, Photography, Illustration, Painting

Song of Songs

Song of Songs

By Mani Price

Legends make mythological love in an erotics of power.   

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Purple Velvet

Purple Velvet

By Vincent Vigil

In lounge with booze. Seduction 101.

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Platinum Tornado

Platinum Tornado

By Vincent Vigil

(September's Cover)

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Silver Demonatrix

Silver Demonatrix

By Vincent Vigil

A fierce, frenzied campfest! Drag Queens remind us of their kitsch royalty.

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Pink Princess

Pink Princess

By Vincent Vigil

Ecstatic triumph!

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Green Rider

Green Rider

By Vincent Vigil

The Phallus Queen!

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A VERBIS AD VERBERA

A VERBIS AD VERBERA (From Words to Blow)

By Zechs

An elegant, stately lampoon of cartoonish corruption.

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Heart

Heart

By Linda Laino

Bound, but beating.

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Totem Laino

Totem

By Linda Laino

Feathers, veins, and flowers intermingle to grow a luscious garden of ecstasy, peace, and vitality.

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New Bird by Linda Laino

New Bird

By Linda Laino

Curiosity. Inspection. An opening.
 

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Don't Sleep by Nelson Santiago

Don't Sleep

By Nelson Host Santiago

In a hellish carnival of social media platforms, virtual personas achieve godlike damnation. 

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And She Was a Ghost of An Affair

And She Was a Ghost of An Affair

By Ashley Doggett

The Master’s whip subverts its own Aryan perversion.

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Missus' Leeroy Shows Out

Detail of Missus' Leeroy Shows Out

By Ashley Doggett

The wretched and the wronged.

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Second Detail of "Missus' Leeroy Shows Out"

Second Detail of "Missus' Leeroy Shows Out"

By Ashley Doggett

Shameless, grotesqueness.

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Master Leeroy's Mansion

Master Leeroy's Mansion

By Ashley Doggett

Exposed cruelty.

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We The People

We The People: Allegory of Whipped Peter

By Ashley Doggett

Portraiture of a pitiful past.

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A History: The Missus’, The Mistress and The Mammy

A History: The Missus', The Mistress, and The Mammy

By Ashley Doggett

A horror recalled.

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