Neon Literary Magazine #37

Issue #37, Neon's first issue of 2014, features the work of Paul Bavister, Shanalee Smith, Noel Williams, Christopher Owen, Tracey S Rosenberg, Erric Emerson, Meg Eden, and Joe Evans. The cover image is by Timur Cetintas. In its pages you will find guns and knives, nightmarish exam days, a story about Facebook friends and some excellent concrete poetry.Bullies, the bullied, and the bystander can all learn from this modern day fable about flying insects who bully crawling bugs.Bullies Bee Buggin’! is an anti-bullying children's book series written to teach children that no one and no thing is here by accident, that everyone has something uniquely important to offer the world, and we all deserve respect based on that alone.The characters in this three part series symbolize three groups found in every schoolyard, in every neighborhood, in every country. They are: The Flyers, who represent the bullies;The Crawlers, who represent the bullied; andThe Hoppers, who represent the bystanders (Introduced in Book Three).Through the Flyers, the Crawlers, and the Hoppers, children will learn how to interact effectively with the people in the world around them.