PHILLIP TEMPLES

Late Afternoon Railroad

I shot this photograph looking west from the Reservoir MBTA Green Line Station in Cleveland Circle, Brookline, Massachusetts, on a cold winter afternoon at 3:33 PM on December 9, 2022. It’s truly magical when a mundane urban scene is transformed into something magical by something simple like the rays of the setting sun.

Photograph, Brookline, Massachusetts, December 9, 2022
Samsung SM-G988U (Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G) smartphone, aperture f/stop ƒ/1.8, shutter speed 1/892s

Phil Temples is a product of the Midwest, but he’s lived in the greater Boston area for the past forty years. Phil has published five mystery-thriller novels, a novella, and four story anthologies in addition to over 220 online short stories. Phil also likes to dabble in mobile photography. He is a member of GrubStreet and the Bagel Bards. You can learn more about Phil by visiting his website at temples.com.

Exodus Brownlow, The Wanting Season, the Rayon Christmas Roast, the Soft-Stained Glass Meal, the Frankenstein Failure, and the Secret of the Sewing Stamina

PHILLIP TEMPLES

Late Afternoon Railroad

Poetry

Cody Smith, Walking My Grandfather’s Garden Gone to Weeds

Ellen Zhang, Snapshots of Grief

Hiba Tahir, Stolen

Iheoma Uzomba, The Kitchen as Slaughterhouse where Crucifixion is just another Permutation of Loss

Marc Di Martino, Hey, Joe

Tamara Panici, Three Nights

Verna Zafra-Kasala, Painted Lady

Yvette Schnoeker-Shorb, Death by Prime Rib

Prose

Amanda Kooser, How to Drown a Kraken

Beth Hahn, Paul Finds Himself in Miniature

Erin Vachon, Sparrow Arm

Exodus Brownlow, The Wanting Season, the Rayon Christmas Roast, the Soft-Stained Glass Meal, the Frankenstein Failure, and the Secret of the Sewing Stamina

Hannah Glickstein, And Is It Too Late Now To Learn Hebrew

Art

Jacelyn Yap, Jormundgand

Michelle Granville, A Simple Revolt

Phillip Temples, Late Afternoon Railroad

Rahul Kumar, Flower

Vivian Calderon Bogoslavsky, Vertigo de La Soledad