Donna Kathryn Kelly
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...
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Latest Works
Nick Badot
Jan 208 min
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...
Frank Diamond
Jan 2013 min
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 201 min
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...
Jim Murdoch
Jan 201 min
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...
Abe Margel
Jan 2010 min
More Than a Shack
It was more than a shack but not quite a house. Uncle Festus had lived there for sixty years and saw no reason to move into something...
Glenn Bresciani
Jan 203 min
Atlantic Hunting Grounds
Sailing the chill waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the cargo ship MS Harper was the only speck of brightness in the vast moonless night....
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Nov 18, 20231 min
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
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....
Robert Pope
Nov 18, 202314 min
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
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...
Lisa Rodriguez
Nov 18, 202310 min
Floor 19
Mary Ann Thompson smoothed her hands over the long-sleeved maid uniform before going through the service door to the Lord Baltimore...
Allister Nelson
Nov 18, 202311 min
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
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
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...
Elizabeth Jacobs
Nov 18, 202311 min
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
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...
Nels Hanson
Nov 18, 20231 min
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
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...
Dai Vaughan
Nov 18, 20232 min
Yes, It Really Happened
Those who debunk the supernatural can’t have ever experienced it When I read about Blake seeing the soul of his brother rise up through...
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