"To Her Coy Mister-ess" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
In the first place, I resented everyone and his neighbor commenting on or even seeming to concern himself with my soul or lack of one....
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- Mar 20, 2022
- 1 min
"Bunylla Bean" by Levi Faulk
I stuff the happy yellow silken blooms into my pocket, my bunny rabbit’s favorite treat. I let them grow wild in my yard and harvest them...
- Mar 20, 2022
- 2 min
"Carry That Weight" by François Bereaud
CW: violence I spent a year wanting to kill a preacher. Inside the mother’s body, a child began to grow. I imagined medieval...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 11 min
"UNTITLED" by Lois L. K. Chan
ACT I The preamble. INT. ME - ALWAYS - UP UNTIL NOW I don’t call my mother’s father ’grandpa’. In English or Cantonese, it is a title...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 9 min
"Edges of Memory" by Kris Haines-Sharp
Rippling refers to the fact that each of us creates—often without our conscious intent or knowledge—concentric circles of influence that...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"Burn" by Agatha Sicil
The blood moon eclipse revealed its power on a Thursday night in November. I took the letters journals and stationery that plagued the...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 5 min
"Beethoven" by Katie Berger
1. I think often about Beethoven, the 1992 children's movie; a John Hughes creation about a clumsy yet lovable St. Bernard. I remember...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 3 min
"Flip" by Wendy Newbury
My mother blows smoke off the cast-iron comb she’s pulled from burning coals. She grabs the handle with a small raggedy hand towel...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 13 min
"Syracuse: A Triptych" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
CW: For readers of this story--This is a story about the early 1990's. It is about a rough time and place where strong and objectionable...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 2 min
"Holy Objects of Awe" by Keith Hoerner
I. The Incredulity of Thomas An index finger points the way from beneath the altar at Santa Croce Church in Gerusalemme, Roma. Postmortem...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
"Chemical Pregnancies" and "Nurse Marge" by Beth Mulcahy
Chemical Pregnancies Dear Diary, I was late for my period so I took a home pregnancy test. Could I just be imagining the second line on...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 7 min
" 'Cryptozoo' Review: Magic is Everywhere" by Mason Parker
Dash Shaw’s sophomore effort is a hallucinatory environmental and anti-war romp through a cryptid-covered world eerily like our own!...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min
"Just Another Day in Paradise" by Cat Dixon
At 5 pm I toss my bag and purse onto the table and crash into the cushy chair. The large windows that face the parking lot offer enough...
- Nov 14, 2021
- 3 min
"New York, A Town That Is Swell" by Stephen Snowder
New York is a town that contains many people. The people are like rats, except instead of tails they have no tails and instead of four...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
"sometime in July i let the hair on my head keep growing now i have headaches." by sloane angelou
lately, i have been sparing thoughts about the idea of having a conscience. i have never been unkind as a person, no never, but having a...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 3 min
"Fall 2020" by Tedd Morrison Jr
Thank you for taking me on long walks to places I had never been before, for telling me the names of all the plants and birds and native...
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
"I want to be held till my anxiety goes to sleep" by sloane angelou
On days like today, I want to be held in silence. No romance. Just friendship and hands, holding me firm and tight till all the anxiety...
- Oct 17, 2021
- 6 min
"And Then" by Tedd Morrison Jr
I took the framed photograph out of the top drawer of my dresser and moved you, with silent ceremony, to the wall above the kitchen sink....
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