Latest Works

Edilson Afonso Ferreira

Nov 18, 20231 min read

Dreaming a Home-Journey From Exile

Sometimes one of us rises to the surface, taking flight from the bottom of Dark Sea, where, exiled, we have stayed for so long. Defeated...

Warren Benedetto

Nov 18, 20236 min read

Things Are Looking Up

I’ve been in a dark place since the accident. I know I need to let her go, to accept that I’m never going to see her again, but I can’t....

Helen N. Hill

Nov 18, 20231 min read

The mugwort leaves beneath

my head speak to my soul from under my pillow. I drink the occult of the night as dreams of Goddess Artemis surface. In a forest, among...

Robert Pope

Nov 18, 202314 min read

Hearing is Believing

Bernard Bartram had achieved some notoriety among the unbelieving community, and, therefore, had become notorious in the community of...

DC Diamondopolous

Nov 18, 20235 min read

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...

Terry Chess

Nov 18, 20231 min read

Road Trip

The road ahead slithers like a giant black serpent in restless desert night Fingers drum on the wheel to the beat of his demons, as...

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...

Will Sandberg

Nov 18, 20231 min read

Battle

I’m a junkie, so a high tolerance is the enemy. I fight for that which makes me feel something. We walk around the battlefield, glowing...

Ken Goodman

Nov 18, 20231 min read

The Hoverer

Walking through the city so unmindful of my legs— The Hoverer stays motionless no matter where I go, borderless GodSky also deLighting...

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...

Emma Burnett

Nov 18, 20238 min read

Fractures like windows and time

She was born on New Year’s Eve, in a maternity ward overlooking the city. I stood with my face pressed against the cool glass, holding...

Helen N. Hill

Nov 18, 20231 min read

Yagas

I have a buried romanticized secret — a notion in which I came from a long line of radiant, regal witches who loved to cook. I have a...

Will Sandberg

Nov 18, 20231 min read

Report

This planet looks candied. Machines crawling its granulated surface. Three-legged metal walkers. They're lasering the planet, cutting 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...

Gerard Sarnat

Nov 18, 20231 min read

Oh Well [What the Circle of Hell]

So it (just perhaps maybe) DOES turn out That those psychology class bummer tropes --Sadder But Wiser and Depressive Realism-- Simply...

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...