Spring 2025 Issue: Anniversaries & the Passage of Time
We are thrilled to share the Spring 2025 Poor Yorick issue!Download Issue Here
Category: Fiction
Spring Issue 2024: Revival
Welcome to the Spring 2024 issue of Poor Yorick Journal! We are so excited to share this with you all. Please enjoy, and support our wonderful contributors by taking a moment to read their bios at the end of the journal and engage with their other work. For best viewing,
Spring Issue: Rediscovery
Welcome to the Spring Issue of Poor Yorick Journal! We are delighted to share a selection of wonderful prose, poetry, and visual art with you. Please enjoy, and support our wonderful contributors by taking a moment to read their bios at the end of the journal and engage with their
Valentine’s Mini-Issue: “After Julian” by Christie Cochrell
After Julianby Christie Cochrell When Julian’s ashes had been strewn in his family’s Hudson Valley, and the apartment in Mexico City been sold, Carrie was left feeling strangely homesick. Not for the places they had lived, which held her husband and his memory, but for a
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December Mini Issue
Editor’s Note: Occasionally while going through submissions, we come across works that just seem to fit together. The three pieces featured this week are all in different artistic forms. Each one speaks to the concept of war, how it affects those involved, and how life manages to go on during
November Double Feature!
Hello from Poor Yorick! And welcome to our November Double Feature. This month we are highlighting two wonderful pieces: a short story by R.S. MacDonald and a poem by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland. Each of these pieces is reflective of fall, of life and death, of change and transformation. We hope you’ll
Space Signals by Mackenzie Hurlbert
He was a quiet man, with a quiet life in small town Middlebrook, Pennsylvania. He could count on two hands the number of times he’d ventured beyond the county borders. He had Chip’s Hardware down the street, the General Store for groceries, and the library with shelves full of his favorite yellow-paged, sci-fi paperbacks. What else did a man need? He thought. … Continue readingSpace Signals by Mackenzie Hurlbert
Bacon Pancakes by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland
They may not be French onion soup or chicken parmesan or banana bread, but I’m going to enjoy my bacon pancakes. … Continue readingBacon Pancakes by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland
“From the Found Journal of Captain Miles Standish” by Richard LeBlond
A fictional reenactment of the pilgrims’ first day ashore in the New World, on what is now the Provincetown Peninsula at the end of Cape Cod. … Continue reading“From the Found Journal of Captain Miles Standish” by Richard LeBlond
Hallow’s Eve Horror: a Poor Yorick Special Publication
Our special issue celebrating the spooky, creepy, and downright horrifying. … Continue readingHallow’s Eve Horror: a Poor Yorick Special Publication