Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

                                                                                  © 2024 Alea Celeste Williams Bio:  Alex S. Johnson's poetry has been featured in numerous venues, including 1 3 Mynah Birds, Black Noise, Horror Sleaze Trash, Misfits, Rye Whiskey Review, Dashboard Horus, and Unlikely Stories . His prose and poetry collections Skull Vinyl and The Doom Hippies were acquired by the Widener Library at Harvard University for their cultural significance. John Shirley, co-creator of the Cyberpunk genre and co-author with David J. Schow of the cult classic horror film The Crow wrote of Johnson's dark poetry collection, The Flowers of Doom, "Alex S. Johnson is the Baudelaire of our time; the poet of the underground." His upcoming books include White on White: A Literar...

  Lynn White lives in north Wales.Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud 'War Poetry for Today' competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Gyroscope Review, and So It Goes.   Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/ The Crossword Man We saw him often during our stay in Moscow. Every time we passed the opulent public building he’d be sitting there in his ‘Enquiries” cubicle intent on his crossword. We watched in awe  as the small queues formed, marvelled at the increasingly imaginative ways devised to attract his attention. All failed. The women in high heels,...