Latest Works

Edilson Afonso Ferreira

Mar 151 min read

Comrades on the Road

I believe there is a conspiracy ongoing involving all of us. I don’t know when or where it began, nor who initiated it. They occult from...

Lauren Elise Fisher

Mar 151 min read

The River Brought the New Year

My toes curl into the sand on a New England shore / thousands of miles (even years) from another world. My ancestors lived by the moon,...

Lee Clark Zumpe

Mar 151 min read

Down Parson’s Branch Road

Enticed by the soft pine-needle floor, I trace the ridgeline upon a whisper of a trail where the ghosts of Indigenous peoples chip arrow...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jim Murdoch

Jan 191 min read

Vampires Anonymous

My name does not matter anymore. Who I was and what I am have become one and the same: I am hungry and I have been hungry for so long now...

George Bandy

Jan 191 min read

boxed & delighted

boxed & delighted we sit knowing now is not the time to speak whether in doting monologues or mythic verse but sit we sit holding our own...

Shana Ross

Jan 192 min read

Recurring Nightmare

The beloved science teacher does this every year: takes a large glass container to the front of the room, shows it to the class empty, of...

Jordan Davidson

Jan 191 min read

Conception of the Demigod

For you, I’d stand sacrificial on the plinth, neck first. Perhaps the gravest worship Is an oncoming death. My willingness to Spill. I...

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...

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...

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...