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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...

Robyn Thomas

Jul 198 min read

The Listeners

October 15, 2043 I’ve been accepted! By train and boat we journey to join the other initiates. We’re allowed three final phone calls –...

V.T. Mikolajczyk

Jul 198 min read

The Salt Towers

There’s a clearing in the center of the Salt Towers where the red ash settles. The pointed remains of stalagmites, exposed to the sky...

Rowan Tate

Jul 191 min read

incarnation

an unfinished feeling, he prays to something beautiful that doesn’t have a name. he tells god he must learn to be five again, when time...

Craig Kirchner

Jul 192 min read

ADIEU

The most memorable are the finals, my father on a morphine drip, burying my first dog, Sporty. According to Oxford, "goodbye" is...

Warren Benedetto

Jul 197 min read

Uncle Pumpkin's Tongue

I wish I had warned someone about Uncle Pumpkin. Maybe I could have stopped him. Maybe I could have saved those poor kids. But until...

Katherine Olsen

Jul 191 min read

Snail Vigil

Now that I have tucked you —cracked and broken, body soft— into the damp dark earth in May, the rain loosening the soil and bringing up...

Joan Bechtel

Jul 193 min read

The Unwanted Place

Let me lie fallow beside the old patch of earth, weedless now and forgotten, ignored because it has no more to give. Let me rest upon its...

John Zedolik

Jul 191 min read

Perhaps god of time is a misnomer and god is time the correct alternative since the former indicates removal from the preposition’s...

Marco Etheridge

Jul 196 min read

Epistles to the Horsemen

Hail, Lord of the White Horse, From He of the Red Horse. Greetings and good tidings to you, Honoured Comrade. The first two seals are...

i tell god i want to write a poem entitled rubato that ends with a dying sound

Rowan Tate

Jul 191 min read

i tell god i want to write a poem entitled rubato that ends with a dying sound

when god made me he was singing and i am finishing the song—the way birds unfeather themselves into kaleidoscopic color, cosmos creating...

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...

Bernardo Villela

Jul 195 min read

The Godhead

Some people suffer sleepless nights pondering if the Big Bang proves or disproves God. Others have wondered how God said, “Let there be...

Riley Turner

Jul 197 min read

Points of View

Everything ached. My back throbbed, and each pulse of my heart sent lightning bolts of pain that ricocheted through my contorted spine....

Misty Layne

Jul 191 min read

a verse of divine demise

they said carve out the pieces of you that don't fit the world offer them up to the gods for a blessing (no, a curse) (no, a snack) that...

Stephen A. Roddewig

Jul 196 min read

In Him, We Know Freedom

The mirror showed a reflection that wasn't my own. It was a boy with smooth skin and cheeks creased from smiles. A certain sheen glinted...

Haley DiRenzo

Jul 191 min read

Adam's Bones

What came first Adam’s rib or Eve’s womb? If they were not lovers but mother and son and he slithered from between her legs coiled at her...

Kendra Recht

Jul 194 min read

Fall

Zephiel used to like Purgatory. He’d enjoyed shepherding souls to redemption, purifying the reformed, and even overseeing the delicate...

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...

James Fowler

Jul 193 min read

Haunts

Our denial and patience have reached their limit. We must do something about the ghosts. Postings on them have gone through the roof....