"Grief of Hands Burned to Dust" & "Boroughs" by Mirm Hurula
Grief of Hands Burned to Dust I just thought about how I won’t hold your hand again the wrinkles all over each knuckle you’ve been using...
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Mar 172 min read
"Marriage Counseling Over a Game of Go" & "Video Games" by Alex Carrigan
Marriage Counseling Over a Game of Go There are 391 points on this Go board for us to position where we feel our most confident. Where we...
Mar 32 min read
"Inherited Memory: Back from the Mikveh" & "Avalanche" by Laura C Lippman
INHERITED MEMORY: BACK FROM THE MIKVEH Setting: penumbra of lamplight, clothed in warm flannel, back from the mikveh, my bleeding done....
Mar 33 min read
"Anniversary", "When I Say Loneliness", "Art + Pain > No Pain, No Art", & "Psychic" by Danielle Lisa
ANNIVERSARY I stick my thumb out and demand a ride. It’s our anniversary. Of the day we died in our last lives. I want to celebrate with...
Mar 31 min read
"I Don’t Have a Gondola or An Oar or Money to Pay a Gondolier" by Matthew Isaac Sobin
So I’ve been wandering sodden streets, crossing narrow bridges. It shouldn't be any great surprise that I’m lost in Venice. It’s the...
Mar 32 min read
"The Resounding Silence" & "Broken Mug" by Claudia Wysocky
The Resounding Silence The silence was resounding— Stifling as it crept into my every thought. The silence was all consuming— Reshaping...
Mar 31 min read
"fisherman", "iscariot online" & "indian summer" by J. R. Wilkerson
fisherman he is only seen in flashes, gold thrashes on the line, reeling it was not he who was found, so cold to the touch, that sallow...
Mar 32 min read
"Whimsy", "Offshoots", "Turn Up" & "First Cousin" by Susan Shea
Whimsy The day I saw the life-like parrot swaying on a string in front of your kitchen window I knew you had made a pivot in the cage...
Mar 32 min read
"Disney’s recycled animations" & "SPOF" by Mike Santora
Disney’s recycled animations It’s been said that Woolie Reitherman had the cels of those scenes drawn over each other because it had...
Mar 32 min read
"Plumb or Plum?", "Kansas Clouds", "Staring at the Ceiling", & "Cupcake Land" by Jason Ryberg
Plumb or Plum? There, just outside my living room window, are six standard issue, old school mailboxes fixed on top of six wooden posts...
Mar 33 min read
"Novel in the Making", "Triste", "One Night a Bear", & "Smiling Fish" by Laurie Kuntz
Novel in the Making The story is short, and not very novel. A man and a woman, both brisk as cloud breaks: The woman is not bad, but...
Mar 31 min read
"my friends show up to my wake" by Berin Aptoula
Both a cartoonist and writer, Berin Aptoula holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University, where she also teaches. If you’re...
Feb 182 min read
"Her Name is Grace" & "Ready, Now" by Karen Grose
Her Name is Grace She sits on top of a mountain, crosses her legs and bounces a free foot in the air, fields are barren in the valley...
Feb 181 min read
"St. Xavier’s Academy" & "Don’t Mess With Texas" by Sumit Parikh
ST. XAVIER’S ACADEMY The nun’s wooden ruler so big and white against my scrawny brown hands when my mind was enjoying the sleepy sky a...
Feb 181 min read
"A Week After" by Sally Anderson Boström
Over a low soft hill is a black forest. Weave your way through the dark tangles to the forest’s heart. There springs a river of blood and...
Feb 181 min read
"Hanks" by Sanjeev Sethi
It may be directed by a hive mind or synergist contrary to my cogitation, but that doesn’t diminish its dignity. Those eyes tune in...
Feb 182 min read
"The Kid Must See With Unbonneted Eyes" by Jesse Hilson
I drop our daughter off at your house After my weekend visit. The small talk we make at the foot of the stairs Just isn't easy, now is...
Feb 182 min read
"Chaos Space Marines" by Jubilee Finnegan
Some nights I just want to talk to you. Get a true sense of us. Learn the ins and outs of your childhood stories. Take a brisk walk...
Feb 182 min read
"Let me tell you a secret:", "Encore: Ten definitions of nostalgia" & "Fire/light after the riot" by Daniel Seifert
Let me tell you a secret: When I’m old with a mouth like a gravestone party(all tilted teeth and mossy gums)I’ll still know your face...
Feb 42 min read
"The Titillation", "Mistral", "Moody Swamp" & "As The Memory's Vultures Circle" by Kushal Poddar
The Titillation A bird has left an azure feather on our cold red cement sill. It corroborates the curiosity's tale about the bird, about...
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