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Anthemusa
Part I: Their ship wasn't meant for oars, but they brought them above deck anyway. They tied the sails down, securing them with ropes to...
Isabella Frederick
Mar 16, 202411 min read


Regodless
Everyone is called here once in their life. Some die on the journey; rarely will a person die before the feeling consumes them: the...
James C. Bassett
Mar 16, 20244 min read


Divination
i. Templum Having spilled spells over wine-slick lips, the skies divide. The augur marks the passing of each avian pilgrim. From their...
Lee Clark Zumpe
Mar 16, 20241 min read


Unspeakable
I buried the truth near here, near this bench. In the park, yes; I panicked. I know how I must look: a woman unmoored, wild haired,...
Sarah Jackson
Mar 16, 20243 min read


Life in the Pigsty
Once there was a farm called Green Shoots, tucked away far from downtown on a scrubby little plot of land. Neighbors swore the soil...
Mario Moussa
Mar 16, 20247 min read


Philosopher’s Stone
I imagine the planets signing our name. I circle ideas with grease pencil and x others out. My best friend warns of a smear campaign. I...
Glen Armstrong
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Awake
My back breaks, a few vertebrae from the bottom. Arms go knuckles fuse legs snap my blood is now sap. Limbs expand up and out leaves...
Zachary Dein Reisch
Mar 15, 20241 min read


Schadenfreude
I, too, have been in the underworld like Odysseus, and shall be there often yet … -  Friedrich Nietzsche Tripping into court Morality...
Craig Kirchner
Mar 15, 20242 min read


Goth Garage
Dank thurible of oil and pine; A congregation draped in dust: paddles, oars, and mouldy sails; surfboards, lawn chairs, bits and bobs....
Frank William Finney
Mar 15, 20241 min read


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


helen of troy as my great grandmother
she boiled rocks, you know on the stove to get rid of the spirits. an image of an elderly helen of troy one that did not disappear with...
Abbie Hart
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


Calamaro Grande
Ripples in the canals are the only warning you get. They’re also the last thing most people see. When feeding starts, you’d better hope...
S.T. Gillard
Mar 15, 20244 min read


Waterfire
The witch like me—the witch always sees— The four elements in harmony North South East West Skeleton fisherman Purges the depths....
Rose Jeanou
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


Babylon
Hanging Babylon, fig trees of dream—uncut oasis, liquor of sun. Perfect Babylon: a sceptre, ailing queen, a gospel of hoaxes preachers...
Venus Fung
Mar 15, 20241 min read
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