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Rhys Lee Hamilton
Jan 1910 min read
Peanut Butter
Gravel crunched beneath two pairs of dirty sneakers, filling the empty afternoon. A loud ping echoed over the field as a rock ricocheted...
Gershon Ben-Avraham
Jan 197 min read
The Abyss
“And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil, IV, 146 A light touch...
J. David Liss
Jan 193 min read
Red Delicious
He dreamed the red dream of blood falling in rivers from a cliff. He stood beneath, drinking it, knowing he would never be hungry again....
Finnbar Howell
Jan 191 min read
Hyperion
“What is your name?” I finally asked on that cold and hopeless morning, as we stood naked on the hilltop, knowing we were irredeemable....
Rick Hartwell
Jan 191 min read
Her Faerie Garden
Both are watered together, Faux-foliage and living plants, A mixture blessed by my spouse. Dampened in the early morning sun, Facets from...
Jordan Davidson
Jan 191 min read
(twelve)
Twelve of us dropped our pale feet against the ground on your orders thinking between the lines of a silk edged rope that perhaps despite...
Andrew Wilkinson
Jan 193 min read
Unrecognizable
I first heard about the disease while nursing my broken ribs over the evening news. Some prion thing, a misfolded protein, a bunch of...
Ash Muzzillo
Jan 192 min read
Esteemed Guest
I’ve had dreams of demons Visiting me under the velvet blanket of night— When most would wake With shivers of fear, These are the least...
Michael Fowler
Jan 1910 min read
The Two-Fingered Juggler, or Gratitude
When the deity visited our city, the Cleanliness Corps swept the streets clean of wretched has-beens like me lest the sojourning god be...
Faith Allington
Jan 192 min read
Nightfall
Abandoned for years, the red farmhouse became a landmark in my childhood, glimpsed from the school bus. It sits well back from the road...
Jared T. Wilkerson
Jan 191 min read
His Sword Shone Brightly
His sword shone brightly, as I drew my own. May God forgive me. I had never fought one, so bold, and so knightly who held the throne. His...
Donna Kathryn Kelly
Jan 191 min read
Qigong
I will tell them about the delectation, the solar burst of my heart: how twice it softly jolted me out of the sleep-verge like a glowing...
J. J. Sherman
Jan 197 min read
Lagnogard Awaits
Lagnogard, balancing on her scaly tail atop one of the many sandstones jutting from the beach, stretched out each of her stubby green...
Nick Badot
Jan 198 min read
The Veins of Brutus
I have not felt the comfort of sleep since my third death. It’s been twenty, maybe twenty-five days since I last tasted the stain of the...
Kelly Winget
Jan 191 min read
Of Gods and Monsters
Maybe we were better off When gods and monsters walked among us. When evil walked the world, But we knew it when we saw it. And the...
Steve Gerson
Jan 192 min read
Pulsing
1867, two years after the war ended, five years after Antietam, 22,700 and more dead at Sharpsburg, arms and legs scattered around me...
Frank Diamond
Jan 1913 min read
Prank
Outside it’s snowing. Again. Hard. Already new-white blankets the off-white of last week’s storm on the campus of our mid-sized college...
R. Gerry Fabian
Jan 191 min read
The Third Jilting
I nearly set the date— I always put great stock in astrology. And with our planets so aligned I moved with a false confidence. My bouts...
Shana Ross
Jan 191 min read
Hall of Mirrors
I once studied in the hall of mirrors, kept my back to the reflections. I never recognize myself anyway. I looked out the wall of windows...
Holly Payne-Strange
Jan 191 min read
The Cards
The Empress. The Ten of Cups. The King Of Swords. First comes a strange sensation, Like a poppy racing to bloom, Or a present hastily...
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