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Jul 27, 20222 min read
2nd Place Poety Winner: The Nice Man - Rabia Kapoor
He seems nice, The man performing cunnilingus On the beautiful, supine woman Who throws her head back because she must And closes her...


Jul 27, 20222 min read
3rd Place Poetry Winner: Toddler on Fire - MARK HAMMERSCHICK
I will not kiss your commie flag a sickly sickle and rusted hammer stuck in the mud hollow scythe dulled with Ukie blood when the steppes...


Jul 27, 20222 min read
1st Place Poetry Winner: magnum opus - Qiqing Goh
the families on tv screens will have you all believe like some gimmicky advertisement from the sixties that all mothers want their...


Jul 25, 20221 min read
I Have to Search for My Aunt's Face - Karen Mandell
in the photos bundled in the back of the drawer. My mother's heart shaped face with wideset eyes leaps out at me in her group of...


Jul 22, 20224 min read
Dolores Unstrung - Sophia Sorrentino
It’s Tuesday night, and I’m alone at the bar. I always come alone. It’s the perfect place to people watch: college kids playing dress-up...


Jul 19, 20227 min read
Leaning into Spring - Jessica Shepherd
Here in south-central Alaska, winter seemed to drag on and on. Deep cold hung with us into March, snow fell almost daily from December...


Jul 16, 20225 min read
Smoking - Corinne Patrice de Palma
When I awoke that day, I remember the faint sound of the cuckoo clock downstairs. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Doing. Doing. Cuckoo. My mother...


Jul 13, 20222 min read
REIMAGINING YOU - Rebecca Larivee
How to explain what I saw in you? My ego so tenuous in those lost, middle years, Everything sugarcoated, just to survive. You lived in a...


Jul 10, 20229 min read
Budapest, 1956 - Suzette Blom
George had dozed off into a fitful moment of unconsciousness inspite of the consistent sound of the shelling. He awoke with a start,...


Jul 7, 20225 min read
MAHALO - Linda S. Gunther
When my husband Bob surprised me with a near end of pandemic get-away to Honolulu I was beyond thankful. “Yes, I’m in!” I blurted with...

Jul 4, 20221 min read
Perfection - Bev Fesharaki
The thrift shop is packed with treasures and I spy the Easter lilies… flat in a basket on the glass top of a lighted cabinet. They’ve...


Jul 1, 20224 min read
Jess D. Taylor - Somehow Still Mystical
At almost 22 years old, I wasn't used to guys who were invested in my orgasms and never tried to get away without using a condom. My love...
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