"The Music Teacher" & "The Missing Spice" by Sarvin Parviz
The Music Teacher For Negar Ighani We stood in a circle, patted our chests and thighs, sang and jumped then clapped. We rained, jumped...
- Aug 22
- 1 min
"The itchy dress" by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
The itchy dress and the rented colonial manor are ill-suited. Which is to say, they are not the right fit. Still, she stands obedient on...
- Jul 24
- 2 min
"Chauffeur" by John Riley
On the way to the airport on the edge of the city, he had asked the driver to pull over. He needed a break, just a moment, from so much...
- Apr 3
- 2 min
"Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold 'em", "Active Shooter 101"... by Matt McGuirk
CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...
- Mar 20
- 2 min
"Seven-year itch and other urban myths" by Slawka G. Scarso
'I didn't even want to come,' I moan. I walk up and down the beach, my bikini already dry, stopping to look at the burns covering my...
- Mar 6
- 1 min
"Boy Clouds of Xquic", "I Forget You", and "Saturns" by Monique Quintana
Boy Clouds of Xquic If she stays too long in the sea, she will see all her son’s bedroom wash by, shaking the trees. She heard he waited...
- Jan 2
- 1 min
"At Dupar’s Café" by Dylan Willoughby
He sat in an all-night diner. A waitress who resembled Bela Lugosi crept then flew towards him. He was reading Ibsen, which he regretted....
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"The Hygge Paradox" by Mileva Anastasiadou
He says we’re stressed, exhausted, I say that’s true but that’s life, he ponders, I don’t like life, he says, while he loves life, but...