"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...
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- Jun 23
- 3 min
"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 23
- 3 min
"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 23
- 2 min
"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 23
- 2 min
"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 23
- 1 min
"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 23
- 3 min
"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 23
- 1 min
"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 23
- 1 min
"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 9
- 1 min
"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 9
- 2 min
"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...
- May 27
- 2 min
"On Midlife: A Self-Portrait" & "Neither Here" by Mary Dittrich Orth
On Midlife: A Self-Portrait A new gulley, a deep, unbending arroyo runs alongside what has always been, an expected line in an unmapped...
- May 27
- 1 min
"Sustainable", "Did You Know?" & "Loop" by Allison Whittenberg
Sustainable eating eggshells for calcium – crushed to mush, watered down is this the future, we pray for? wanting not to waste as waste...
- May 12
- 2 min
"A Debt of Bone" by Wesley Zurovec
Hunting boots all wet and muddy, Following the trail, most bloody, Found some tracks, now stop and study. There’s my quarry, freshly...
- May 12
- 1 min
"From one heap to another" by Maura Hehir
From one heap to another after Brian Eno In the spring, I scatter normal instruments in secret locations. The road home is formless,...
- May 12
- 2 min
"The Day" & "Waiting Room" by G. Murray Thomas
THE DAY The day his doctor told my father he shouldn't drive anymore there were suddenly so many errands to run. I ran into the mailbox,...
- May 12
- 2 min
"Wind", "Now You See It, Now You Don't" & "A Man Stops the Clocks" by Audrey Howitt
)))wind unravels fingers— tones pores which gasp as sudden cold sneaks up on you like an icicle down your back, between your breasts...
- May 12
- 2 min
"How to Kill a Country Girl’s Ego" by Ash(ley) Michelle C.
I pointed at that deer in the brush with my finger held out like a gun. It was just standing there after all it’s white-tailed friends...
- May 12
- 1 min
"Newspaper & Father’s Beard" by Amit Parmessur
“You could have spread a newspaper,” she says. Mother, the dogs leave their fur everywhere in the house, how can father’s white beard...
- May 12
- 3 min
"Again, I see the Dawn", "Victoriana", & "Ways of Entering a Dream" by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
AGAIN, I SEE THE DAWN of my childhood when women stood lonely in Edward Hopper windows, still in their full slips, or already in flowered...
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