"Biting Back" & "The Nature of a Wall" by Adele Evershed
Biting Back When I was five I bit a boy / he had followed me down the slide / pinned my arms / and tried to kiss me / the teacher seeing...
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Jul 71 min read
"A Surgery of Sisters" by Leslie Cairns
CW: Cancer When you wait for your estranged sister’s surgery update, on April Fool’s Day, it feels like The way skydiving must feel (I’m...
Jul 71 min read
"Bad News in Plain English" by Sebastian Hunter
Everyone was purely jazzed about the sun disappearing for three minutes. In her absence, the day went completely saturnine. Nobody’s...
Jul 71 min read
"Room No. 470" by Kushal Poddar
She makes him feel 'late' early. He has drunken three white liquid crystals and sits on the shards of a mirror called time. Now the lady...
Jul 72 min read
"Look to the Skies" & "I shouldn't drive at night" by Luck Zytowski
Look to the Skies The red glare shines against my face, bright in the quiet of morning. My eyes glaze over at the monotony, everyone...
Jul 72 min read
"Like a Bat Out of Hell" by Jane Bloomfield
Anyone who’s ever done high school art has painted the full moon dripping a sad candle of yellow wax-light back to a dark flat earth...
Jul 71 min read
"I Still Dream of Mangoes in Your Mother’s Garden" by Layla Ghazaly
for Nour No, don’t take that one! that sweet sweet sweet ripe one so delectable that one, all flesh and red and tenderness, I’ve been...
Jul 71 min read
"Skirmish" by Dan Brotzel
Screeches break the glare of day: Crows scramble; he is on his way. Over the roofs the dragon sweeps (Fuselage of legs, span prehistoric)...
Jul 72 min read
"Basic", "Aspiring" & "The margins..." by Grant Shimmin
Basic Beach sandwiches thrown together from what’s in the car “It’s fairly basic,” she says an excuse of sorts And yes, back in the...
Jun 233 min read
"When the What Ifs Turn into Nows" by Maud Lavin
What if I stayed up as late as I wanted to every night and slept in as late as I wanted to each morning. What if I wrote an eco-novella...
Jun 233 min read
"upwards" & "Larvae" by Abigail Coe-Sullivan
upwards i spent the day untying knots and then reweaving them, yellow on yellow on yellow, telling a story between my fingers picked out...
Jun 232 min read
"The Café is Real" by Ryan Keating
Ten Gibraltar monkeys shoved their way into the busy cafe at the top of the Rock where the cable car stops. The sliding window...
Jun 232 min read
"Work Ethic" & "Hell is for Girls" by Angel Rosen
Work Ethic is about capitalism and suicide. My pieces often focus on mental illness. Read with care. WORK ETHIC My mother will tell me...
Jun 231 min read
"ghosted" & "Here’s How Gods Die" by Vicky MacDonald Harris
ghosted “You all live once,” the app screamed, like Munch. Filled bodies, slick and brickly on the outside, hardened by days of burbled...
Jun 233 min read
"Conception", "Jade and Other Jewels", "Stillborn Yolk", "Taking Coyotes Seriously" & "Silver Spoons" by Will Falk
Conception Things got too hot, you couldn’t stop your dams from breaking. Your swollen rivers, thick and thawed washed over me in white...
Jun 231 min read
"messiah" by John Sweet
had this addiction, was shooting pure gold into washed-out veins while i kissed his wife in the back seat, and he kept driving down the...
Jun 231 min read
"Alliterations" by Lisa Sultani
There is the grind of grief and there is also the rising. Yes he had a mother too, as everyone does. What can it mean to have a mother,...
Jun 91 min read
"So Masculine" by Claire L. Frankel
So masculine, I could stare at you all evening. Rude me - probably because I missed seeing you the past 32 years. I gave up straight men...
Jun 92 min read
"Entangled" by Afra Ahmad
I hate that I am kind. I get entangled every year in a new game of a new hunter. People weave dulcet tales to lure me into their...
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