Josephine G Cambridge
On the Seafloor
My mind, memories, and soul came into being—like waking up, only somehow, I was already awake. My dim cabin aboard the Samsa was more...
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Tyler King
5 days ago2 min read
virgo
cough in your throat, snake in the woodpile, outside, the poets remember too loudly— quiet, please, time is passing. every morning cracks...
D. J. Bates
5 days ago5 min read
Echoes of Solitude
It was time to venture out again. He didn’t particularly enjoy these journeys, but at least they were a reason to escape the monotony...
Zary Fekete
5 days ago9 min read
Missionary Childhood
When my father was teaching me how to ride a bike, he also taught me about sin. We lived in Vienna, just having arrived from Minnesota....
Maya Rose
5 days ago2 min read
high desert
there is more than one way to look at it. outside the wood gift shop there is the desert, the gray hill but the scrub shivers like...
Dani Arieli
Sep 2010 min read
Across the Marsh
Nobody batted an eye while the man with the carrion-crow mask handed the little girl flowers of violet. Not even the young farmhand, who...
Nicole F. Kimball
Sep 202 min read
Artifact
When the velvet greens are washed with rain and dirt, And the dirt is washed with hands like the surgery of a seed— The child I once...
Paige Eaton
Sep 202 min read
Camellian
I. Camellian She was made in the image of Camellia. Her lips boasted a cherry blossom, carved carmine cheeks dripped into her yellow...
Caidyn Bearfield
Sep 202 min read
It Must Be Necessary
With enough years of practice, I easily store six days of outfits in a single backpack pocket Crumpled five dollar bills tucked in...
Kyle Brandon Lee
Sep 205 min read
Her Heart for a Field of Dandelions
The breeze blew only so softly, the dandelions merely teasing their release. The entire field waved with the gentle wind. Massive stones...
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Sep 201 min read
Arrowroot
My arrowroot forgives me easily For lax unintentional dry spells when Leaf blades fold in when parched, like palms upright, Tight clasped...
Frank William Finney
Jul 191 min read
Western Words
Necklaces of jasmine-flowered words cling to the throats of whimsical tourists before blending with the bustle of Bangkok like clownfish...
Michael Neal Morris
Jul 191 min read
Indistinct
A haziness obscures the horizon as I look for boats and islands on the Mediterranean Sea, or more precisely at them for no other reason...
Michael Neal Morris
Jul 191 min read
First Morning in Spain
First morning in Spain, not counting when the plane landed and we rushed language-less to find customs and our bags, I am sitting at the...
Evan Burkin
May 171 min read
The Color of Dirt
An emboldened doe bakes in Liverpool under heated greens & beech limbs. Its red dew soaks the edges of its shallow birth. A fermentation...
Zary Fekete
May 1714 min read
Lidérc
The two holy men traveled by day, each of them on their own mule, riding slowly through the grass, until they came to the cabin in the...
Isabella Frederick
Mar 1511 min read
Anthemusa
Part I: Their ship wasn't meant for oars, but they brought them above deck anyway. They tied the sails down, securing them with ropes to...
Mario Moussa
Mar 157 min read
Life in the Pigsty
Once there was a farm called Green Shoots, tucked away far from downtown on a scrubby little plot of land. Neighbors swore the soil...
Fariel Shafee
Mar 151 min read
The Search
Does darkness have an inherent appeal that lures one to her own destruction? Do we leave the life of light and clarity just to get lost...
Amy Oates
Mar 153 min read
Wood Heart
The van in their driveway is totaled. May doesn’t need an expert to tell her that. The oak tree growing through it is proof enough. Bark...
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