Alternating Current's annual literary journal dedicated to historical and contemporary views on history contains poetry, maps and historical photographs, fiction, essays, articles, and nonfiction by various authors, both contemporary and historical, about various topics of history. Within these covers fantastically drawn by artist Terry Fan, you'll meet the Romanovs, Serbian poet Vojislav Ilic, Dr. Zhivago, Stephen Crane, Geronimo, Lord Strathcona, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. You'll learn of the misprint in Herman Melville's obituary, the constellations in the Southern Planisphere mapped out by Nicolas de La Caille, what might have been exchanged between William Wordsworth and Thomas Carlyle, how Laura Cereta thrived on insomnia, and who's buried in the cemeteries at Pere-Lachaise and Montparnasse. Our first Featured Writer, A. Jay. Adler -- an interviewee for a junior fellowship at Harvard Society of Fellows, Vermont Studio Center grant recipient, and Maui Writers Conference Screenwriting Competition prize winner -- will take you through Jewish life on the Lower East Side, Van Gogh's mental asylum, Route 66, and the bordello rooms of Old-West Tombstone. Our second Featured Writer, Jesseca Cornelson -- a Catskill Center's Platte Clove Preserve and a Sundress Academy for the Arts' Firefly Farms resident artist -- will take you through the Tablet of Daughters, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville's journals of the South, and a history of her home state of Alabama's unfortunate past with racial lynchings. Their work is showcased next to three of our Pushcart Prize nominees and the first, second, and third places, and nine notable-mention finalists, for our 2015 Charter Oak Award for Best Historical. From the Wild West to the Holocaust to Lincoln's exhumation to the folk music of the sixties to the lost city of Atlantis, you'll discover entire past worlds between these covers and meet a cast of characters colorful enough to color every page.

The 6" x 9" perfect bound ISBN# book "No Return" was originally released as the 5.5" x 8.5" perfect bound November 2011 issue (v226) of cc&d magazine (http://scars.tv/ccd, byline: The UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine, founded 1993), published by Scars Publications The cover is a photo of factories at sunset, photographed off of I355 in Romeoville IL December 18th 2010. Writers and artists included in this book are Mel Waldman, Kelley Jean White MD, Fritz Hamilton, Dan Fitzgerald, John Yotko, Matthew Roberts, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI, Gale Acuff, Maxwell Baumbach, Kenneth DiMaggio, David S. Pointer, the HA!man of South Africa, Lisa Cappiello, Michael Ceraolo, Eric Shelman, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Matthew Guzman, Janet Kuypers, John Grey, William Doreski, Mark D. Cohen, Rose E. Grier, Sarah Lucille Marchant, Deborah Nodler Rosen, Emerald Scott, Brian Hosey, Emma Eden Ramos, Richard E Marion, Linda Webb Aceto, Robert Turner, Elaheh Steinke, Oz Hardwick, Amanda Thoss, Cheryl Townsend, Brian Montalbano, J. Kent Allred, Aaron Wilder, Ned Haggard, and Brian Forrest.

Welcome to the first issue of Degenerates: Voices for Peace, an anthology filled with poetry made to start conversations, provide shelter and healing, and much more! Weasel Press has published this anthology to help shed light on various social justice issues and to promote the power that poetry can have. "Everything starts with the word," said henry 7 reneau jr. and these words we're sure will spark something inside each and every reader.

The 6" x 9" perfect bound ISBN# book "Up In Smoke" was originally released as the 5.5" x 8.5" perfect bound October 2011 issue (v225) of cc&d magazine (http://scars.tv/ccd, byline: The UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine, founded 1993), published by Scars Publications The cover is a photo of factories at sunset, photographed off of I355 in Romeoville IL December 18th 2010. Writers and artists included in this book are Jane Kuypers, Fritz Hamilton, Mel Waldman, Nathan Riggs, Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCIart, Kelley Jean White MD, Nick Brazinsky (with art), Matthew Roberts, Kyrsten Bean, the HA!Man of South Africa (with art), Gale Acuff, Cheryl Townsend (with art), Michael Ceraolo, Kenneth DiMaggio, David S. Pointer, David Thompson (with art), Maxwell Baumbach, Lisa Cappiello, Linda Webb Aceto, Eric Shelman, Brett E. Devlin, Jim Davis, Jr., I.B. Rad, Raúl Niño, Matthew Rodgers, Michael A. Rodriguez, John Yotko photography, Matthew Guzman, Jenene Ravesloot, John Grey, Dan Fitzgerald, Daniel S. Weinberg, Patrick Fealey, Amy Dunn Caldwell, Peter LaBerge (with art), Meghan Frank, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with art), Darren Fernando, Marilyn June Janson, Rose E. Grier (with art), Timothy B. Dodd, Brian Forrest (with art), Rex Sexton, Aaron Wilder (with art), Richard E Marion, Brian Hosey (with art), Martha Humphreys, Eric Bonholtzer.

Our March issue offers five short stories, five poems, and a novelette. We interview screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer Ryan Priest about his latest film, The Scam. We have a feature preview of the new season of Game of Thrones, and an essay about the growing trend of literary writers switching over speculative fiction.