RIC Journal

Our latest issue is now online, with echoes and sounds, dead men, Ray films, memoirs, nudities and its dreams, shrubs, gods, green knights, hemispheres, promise of the coming summer, and more. Please read and share: ricjournal.com

"Yes, living here would fix me and the miraculous, sweet fruit of your bath has me leaning on the orchard ladder picking apples from your spine." Nude by Damon Hubbs: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/nud…

[…] I got two rabbits from the owner of the jewelry store next door. In my kitchen, I peeled the fur off and pulled their entrails out. ・ #ICYMI: I hope you all enjoy my prose published in @ricjournal, 2020. This poem in Japanese appeared in my poetry collection @mscried.

‘Colour Is The Sound; The Sound Is Red’ [Dan McNeil, 2024] #surrealism #shortstories #flashfiction #yvestanguy ricjournal.com/2024/06/02/col… @ricjournal @DontsubmitLit

The Museum of Eternal Sanctity [Dan McNeil, 2024] ricjournal.com/2024/11/17/the… @ricjournal

[…] A cook apprentice holding a bone-in chicken for the soup in a translucent vinyl bag comes from the other side of the crowded pedestrian crossing. ・ #ICYMI: I hope you all enjoy my prose published in @ricjournal, 2021. Japanese poem appeared in poetry collection @mscried.

The Museum of Eternal Sanctity [Dan McNeil, 2024] ricjournal.com/2024/11/17/the… @ricjournal

[…] Peanuts from Chiba arrive when my wife’s absence. I watch the parcel delivery guy on the monitor of video doorphone for a while. … #ICYMI: I hope you all enjoy my short story published in @ricjournal, 2021. The Japanese prose appeared in my poetry collection @mscried.

[…] “Life is wonderful But Sweet dreams never come back” Fragments of boring love song fall into a concrete empty box. … #ICYMI: I hope you all enjoy my poem published in @ricjournal, 2022. The poem in Japanese appeared in the first poetry collection @mscried. Tr. by suzuki

[…] Pearls tell the truth. Photographing sunspots. Rosary of the eclipse. Lute of pure silk. … #ICYMI: I hope you all enjoy my poem published in @ricjournal, 2022. This poem in Japanese appeared in the first poetry collection @mscried, 2013. Translation by hiromi suzuki.

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Delighted to have a poem in the Yearbook Indian Poetry in English 2024. Thanks to editors @vinita65 @PaulSukrita and the review committee and @PippaRannBooks. Also grateful to @ricjournal where it found it's first home.

ICYMI: I hope you all will enjoy my new prose in the latest issue of @ricjournal in June 2025. ✽ Under the Blackcurrant Shrub ✽ ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/und… … *GIF Photography: hiromi suzuki

Submissions to @ricjournal are open. We await your texts, dreams, sounds, images, anything that you want.

"amaltaas bursts at its seams the burning may sun brings it to a full rapture life bursts in yellow spilling onto the streets like warm honey cascading the neighborhood" Memoire by @ideedumz: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/mem…

We are OPEN for submissions. Send us texts / images / art / sounds / dreams / whatever you can think of. Please submit and spread the word. ricjournal.com/submissions/

"He would contemplate the fish, careful not to step on it, and think about silence – listen, for a moment, for a split second, a millisecond, an epsilon of pure and total soundlessness. Was it even possible?" The Dead Man in Limbo by Tristan Foster: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/the…

"There’s no letting-down of nudity. I keep posing. Living is exteriorising: but to die not knowing death!" Inhabit by Mathew Jasper: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/inh…

ICYMI: I hope you all will enjoy my new short fiction included in the annual themed issue of @ricjournal, May 2025. ✽ The Ungrateful Crêperie ✽ via ricjournal.com/2025/04/30/the… ….. *GIF Photography: hiromi suzuki