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Jul 7, 20241 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 7, 20241 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 7, 20242 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 23, 20243 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 23, 20243 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 23, 20242 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 23, 20242 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 23, 20241 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 23, 20243 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 23, 20241 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 23, 20241 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 9, 20241 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 9, 20242 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...

May 27, 20242 min read
"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, 20241 min read
"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, 20242 min read
"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, 20241 min read
"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, 20242 min read
"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, 20242 min read
"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...
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