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The Haunting of Piedras Blancas
There is no end to my love for Jemjasee. I pace the ragged cliffs, searching the sea for her ship. My longing will not cease until I am...
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Latest Works
Lisa Rodriguez
Nov 18, 202310 min read
Floor 19
Mary Ann Thompson smoothed her hands over the long-sleeved maid uniform before going through the service door to the Lord Baltimore...
Allister Nelson
Nov 18, 202311 min read
Godmother Death
Once, my father Frederick went into the woods. It was a cold night in Leipzig when I, Sieglinde, was born. I was the twelfth child of a...
Nels Hanson
Nov 18, 20231 min read
I Ching
This morning the red ant and larger white-winged fly chase the frightened large striped spider across the cold floor. Why, what thirst...
Jack D. Harvey
Nov 18, 20232 min read
The Yellow Emperor
When the last lithe leopard in the emperor's crowded preserve leapt down from his arboreal perch pink-mouthed and mottled, where was the...
Elizabeth Jacobs
Nov 18, 202311 min read
The Starling
Twenty seventeen was the year the starling got trapped in the wall. It was seeking warmth from the cold in order to survive. It clawed...
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Rebirth
I sleep in a dream generated in the nightmares and eat scraps of hope, milled in the impersonal and mechanical time’s machine. Scraps...
Nels Hanson
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Breathe
Lift the sash, let your pale leaves taste the late summer air. Welcome the balmy wind, all pollen and dust settling on sad arms of empty...
Cassandra Daucus
Nov 18, 20239 min read
A Mother's Spirit
“I don’t want to do it.” Dorothy scowled at her little sister Margaret as she opened the box and pulled out the ouija board, being...
Dai Vaughan
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Yes, It Really Happened
Those who debunk the supernatural can’t have ever experienced it When I read about Blake seeing the soul of his brother rise up through...
Heather Sager
Nov 17, 20231 min read
In the name of the decayed leaf
Might I decay, in russet brilliance, just like you, leaf. Fall adopts her prettiest dress when the singing thrush appears. With age might...
Robert Pettus
Nov 17, 20237 min read
Choose Your Heaven
“Please choose your heaven,” said the ethereal voice in my head. I looked around but I couldn’t see anything—everything was a shifting,...
John Grey
Nov 17, 20231 min read
What I Share This House With
The steps to the basement are dark. The basement itself is even darker. Something scurries across the damp floor. Most likely a rat. At...
Peggy Nalls
Nov 17, 20235 min read
Des Arc Elegy
She was angry with her mother. The boys were going to Big Creek to swim and she wasn’t allowed. She was ten. It wasn’t fair. The only...
Nels Hanson
Nov 17, 20231 min read
My Friend
His one kidney failing my friend each night saw visions, unknown creatures, forms half human, ghosts, circle his bed as always tiny...
Jack D. Harvey
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Timor Mortis
We make him dress up, hooded cloak, scythe and skull, the Grim Reaper, put a name to it sinister slapstick to cover the skeleton he is....
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