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The Yellow House
We are a speck of dust on the Universe’s shelf. Everyone is dead or dying and if they aren’t, then they’re simply unaware. These are the...

Marble Black
Mar 15, 20248 min read


The Eyes of Hazrat Inayat Khan
His dark, penetrating eyes are gazing right at you, inviting you to connect, to be your true self, conscious and present. And at the same...

Ralph Dranow
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Call Me Dave
David Bowie came to me in a great big dream. I’d just finished talking with Salvador Dali, he’d been teaching me how to make a million by...

Marc A. Brimble
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Book of Life
The parchment will eventually go thin / you’ll brush it gently and yet it’ll tear / there’s no cure for the impending age / forget any...

Lauren Elise Fisher
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Driving West from White Sulphur Springs with Ralph Waldo Emerson
I drive west from White Sulphur Springs in my black and bruised 2005 Silverado model 2500 4x4 Heavy Duty up 7% grades hauls easily 20,000...

Ron Tobey
Mar 15, 20242 min read


The Lighthouse
I breathe the cursed air haunted fog with spectral halos white horse waves roll at my feet tossing dead souls as a sacrifice I tried to...

Cathy Joyce Lee
Mar 15, 20241 min read


The Trick
Upon his departure from his horrible, sinful life, he was not greeted by fire and brimstone. There was not light, there was not the...

Jacob Smith
Mar 15, 20242 min read


The Particles of Existence
Danielle extended a long white leg into a long white stocking and watched without interest as servants hooked the delicate lace into...

Colette Des Georges
Mar 15, 202411 min read


Good Friday and the Weekend
The end of life is a beautiful woman beside you; her yellow self cast forth from the yellow lamp: a buzzing papilio yellow-robed, red...

Elvins Artiles
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Middle Class Christmas
The hills of home were hewn with gray—gray, gray, gray—haunting gray. Their house stood silent, still, upon the hill—it never...

Tim McDonald
Mar 15, 20245 min read


The Sky
Rain slickened the cobbled steps up the long road to the professor's home. The home had stood on its mountain perch for over four hundred...

Gavin Hansen
Mar 15, 20245 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,...

Lauren Elise Fisher
Mar 15, 20241 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...

Lee Clark Zumpe
Mar 15, 20241 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...

Rhys Lee Hamilton
Jan 19, 202410 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...

Gershon Ben-Avraham
Jan 19, 20247 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....

J. David Liss
Jan 19, 20243 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...

Ash Muzzillo
Jan 19, 20242 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...

Faith Allington
Jan 19, 20242 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...

Donna Kathryn Kelly
Jan 19, 20241 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...

Nick Badot
Jan 19, 20248 min read
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