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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...
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Nov 18, 20231 min read


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....
Warren Benedetto
Nov 18, 20236 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...
Helen N. Hill
Nov 18, 20231 min read


Hearing is Believing
Bernard Bartram had achieved some notoriety among the unbelieving community, and, therefore, had become notorious in the community of...
Robert Pope
Nov 18, 202314 min read


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...
DC Diamondopolous
Nov 18, 20235 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...
Terry Chess
Nov 18, 20231 min read


Floor 19
Mary Ann Thompson smoothed her hands over the long-sleeved maid uniform before going through the service door to the Lord Baltimore...
Lisa Rodriguez
Nov 18, 202310 min read


Battle
I’m a junkie, so a high tolerance is the enemy. I fight for that which makes me feel something. We walk around the battlefield, glowing...
Will Sandberg
Nov 18, 20231 min read


The Hoverer
Walking through the city so unmindful of my legs— The Hoverer stays motionless no matter where I go, borderless GodSky also deLighting...
Ken Goodman
Nov 18, 20231 min read


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...
Allister Nelson
Nov 18, 202311 min read


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...
Nels Hanson
Nov 18, 20231 min read


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...
Jack D. Harvey
Nov 18, 20232 min read


Fractures like windows and time
She was born on New Year’s Eve, in a maternity ward overlooking the city. I stood with my face pressed against the cool glass, holding...
Emma Burnett
Nov 18, 20238 min read


Yagas
I have a buried romanticized secret — a notion in which I came from a long line of radiant, regal witches who loved to cook. I have a...
Helen N. Hill
Nov 18, 20231 min read


Report
This planet looks candied. Machines crawling its granulated surface. Three-legged metal walkers. They're lasering the planet, cutting the...
Will Sandberg
Nov 18, 20231 min read


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...
Elizabeth Jacobs
Nov 18, 202311 min read


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...
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Nov 18, 20231 min read

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Oh Well [What the Circle of Hell]
So it (just perhaps maybe) DOES turn out That those psychology class bummer tropes --Sadder But Wiser and Depressive Realism-- Simply...
Gerard Sarnat
Nov 18, 20231 min read


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...
Nels Hanson
Nov 18, 20231 min read


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...
Cassandra Daucus
Nov 18, 20239 min read
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