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May 25, 20211 min read
Sonnet for a Forgotten Prodigy - Bruce J. Berger
She steps into her long black shell, Gray buttoned blouse closed at her neck, Gold Star of David hidden well, Her heart alone can feel...
May 24, 20211 min read
Vagabond Soul - Stephanie Lamb
Do you see? Do you see how the sky breaks and weeps for you? How it births stars hoping to envelope you. And you unknowingly hold the...
May 23, 20212 min read
Madeline - Hayley Bowen
My hand floats out the open window, a pieridae surfing the stream of heavy July air. The other hand fingers an organic condom in the...
May 22, 20212 min read
Childhood’s Last Summer - Cora M. Liderbach
The long and brilliant days of August 1960 are dwindling as a girl swings round and round a swaying metal pole that props up the striped...
May 18, 20211 min read
The Battle of a Tuesday - Alexandra Enright
Everything is fine as it appears on the surface. You are engaged, your home is furnished you look better than you’ve ever looked. But...
May 15, 20211 min read
YOU'RE DEAD - Rebecca River Forbes
Payments, payments, complaints and insurance. Decisions, decisions, yes/no/maybe, scale of preference. God, parents, manager, director,...
May 12, 20211 min read
Wardrobe - Beth Peddle
Clothes need something to cling to, a plump curve to give them shape. They need happy meat to help them hang so that you can be sure...
May 9, 20211 min read
2046 - Amy Lee
A stop I never wanted Turn back the Chungking Express Turn back these Ashes of Time Turn back the Nanking Treaty Lin Heung Tea House lost...
May 8, 20212 min read
Beautiful Denizens of the Deep, Dark Night - Eleanor Lerman
When we were alive and well in the long ago, beautiful denizens of the deep, dark night, love was in charge. Love ran the power stations,...
May 7, 20212 min read
Avocado Ghost - Susan Ciaravella
I hear you in the kitchen, Opening cabinets and clinking silverware. Splitting avocados. Mashing your fork into each slice until green...
Apr 30, 20211 min read
Untying the Knot - Dana Kinsey
Knowing white as lack of color, I dismiss myself as pale, trailing a train of lace and disdain, dragging through streets useless and...
Apr 29, 20212 min read
Yeonjae Eom - paperman
it starts with a punch to the gut hacking cough spitting curse and gasp slipping between barbed tongues and the cracks of skin smoke-dry...
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