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Reneé Bibby
May 17, 202411 min read
Greetings from Costa Rica
The first photo pings Luka’s phone at 11:27 am, while he’s scrolling through Zillow listings of houses in Sun City that he can afford but...


Emmie Christie
May 17, 20245 min read
Gift of the Fey
Tira plucked the sethel flower off the stem and sucked the starlight from it. It hinted at sweetness, teasing like the moon on this...


Jacob Strunk
May 17, 20244 min read
The Savior of Battery Island
From where you crouch, the city is a swarm of lights. You hear the horn of the final ferry and know it carries the day’s last tourists....


Wallace Truesdale II
May 17, 20241 min read
I Should’ve Been an Astronaut
Looking back, I should’ve been an astronaut: brave, weightless yet still attached to the ground, the balance that would answer all...


Amanda C
May 17, 20241 min read
Creation
The god reaches down with sinewy arms like tender vines they curl around the bite-sized human He knits a garment out of honey and...


Jill Jepson
May 17, 20242 min read
Birds
I work long into the night making the birds, sewing the slender feathers with fine thread, knitting the tiny hearts, the miniature lungs....


Jonathan Mitchell
May 17, 202411 min read
Midnight Show
It is difficult to pinpoint when my insomnia started. I remember fitful sleep, filled with agitated dreams of clanking noises and foul...


Andrew Kolarik
May 17, 20242 min read
Car Jammed
I raise my infant son and daughter, onto the barrier. We look out on a sea of chrome, southbound only, flickering into the distance. For...


Benjamin Parker
May 17, 20241 min read
An Age of Progress
The traditions recycled and passed down on an earth that forever stood still. An essence diluted to the dusty remains of some forgotten...


Thomas De Moor
May 17, 202411 min read
Inheritance
Ingram slogged through the downpour to watch the execution of the hex. His calloused fingers were wrapped around the tight straps of his...

Mitchell Pluto
May 17, 20241 min read
Theurgy and magnetic sphere
There is a guiding light. A path towards a healthier and more compassionate self. It is a star self, a light held together by its own...


Jaymee Thomas
May 17, 20241 min read
Abyssward Uprising
They sit sallow in dourness, barely a ghostfire stays illumed in the depthless height of jealous Seraphim. They are grooming nits and...


Evan Burkin
May 17, 20241 min read
Luna
Your crescent scars the abyss where idle bodies should remain at peace. Your light torches their ambience a lightness akin to a swift...


Rick Hartwell
May 17, 20241 min read
Senior Moment
Thinly veiled moon plays peek-a-boo between clouds; shadows dance and disappear. Trepidatiously at first, then emboldened smelling gifts...


Steven Kay
May 17, 202410 min read
The Glass Needle
You look thin! Katia jolted up in bed, clutching her mottled blanket. Saucer-eyed, her gaze turned to the open bedroom door, a black...


Nick Young
May 17, 20246 min read
Malédiction
It would not be found on any tourist map, but ask the locals; they could tell you. In the dark heart of St. Martin Parish, east of New...


Jaymee Thomas
May 17, 20241 min read
The Silent Alchemy of Evening Light
In the quiet communion of night, stars of clarity softly indite their secrets— their arcane scriptures scribbled on the sky, a stippling...


Gill Shaw
May 17, 20241 min read
Shamanic Journey
I I go to the forest.  He waits for me there. Lofty antlers, hooves planted. I climb into his mouth  into his belly.  I light a...


C.J. Lane
May 17, 20241 min read
The Emerald Tablet: A Cut-up Poem
The holy speech, that which is Divine Spirit, the embodied Logos, is immortal. All of nature in paragraph, as indeed the secret song of...

Ken Goodman
May 17, 20241 min read
in the equipoise
No way to wander away from self-meditative glow: home sweet home where path/arrival has no where to go : mating unseen & beholding in the...
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