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The Head Within
I woke with two heads. It’s happened before, though long ago. I sat at the edge of my bed. A sad affair of sticks and wooden branches...

Arthur Davis
7 days ago8 min read


Dying Breed
Ancient trees are a dying breed. They are a dying breed because they are steadily going out of existence, yes—but, more than that,...

Louis Frank
7 days ago2 min read


Riding the Hellevator
As Aeneus carried Anchises out of burning Troy towards the stars and away from crisis, their creator cradles you, old boy, from the...

John Wise
7 days ago1 min read


Celestial Visitors
Celestial Visitors imagines a moment of cosmic arrival—an encounter between the earthly and the divine, the known and the unknowable. In...

Zahra Zoghi
Jun 202 min read


Ring of Saturn
I’ve never met the person in my passenger seat, but she smiles when I refuse her offerings of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms. "I Got...

Viviane Fae-Moss
Jun 202 min read


The Man in the Woods
Once I met someone in the woods. He acted like I met him on purpose. I didn’t. He smiled antler to antler, a smile not reaching his...

Emma Galloway Stephens
Jun 201 min read


Skywards
It is a revelation: Even the banal becomes momentous when you look at it with proper attention. Just point your phone skywards and...

Larry Kilman
Apr 182 min read


NooseKnot (XII)
It begins with frayed rope, It will end with the same. Stretched, strained, suspended, Stuck up in the air, dangling and paralyzed,...

Garrett Speller
Apr 181 min read


Sing to flower fairies
for every letter of the alphabet especially for the fuchsia fairy Sing to reading and rereading every single...

Natalie C. Smith
Apr 182 min read


Virgil in Purgatory
Dante does not presume to call him by name But poet, father, master, teacher and guide. His respect seems paramount, but the words ring...

Larry Kilman
Apr 182 min read


Carving Medea
Before the first strike of the chisel, she was stone. Ten sweat-grimed men worked quickly cutting into the ribs of a mountain that held...

Janel Konzer
Feb 149 min read


Memento mori
“Why is this night different from all other nights?” – From the Passover Seder Here I lie, chad gadya on my hospital bed counting my...

Raymond Turco
Feb 142 min read


Dirce’s Spring
I hated so much in my life and still became something beautiful when I died. Here, slotted in the rock, I flow out. I’ll erode what’s...

Emily Jarecke
Feb 141 min read


Orlok
At a lancet looking out on empty hills and dark forests, Carpathians hulking against the horizon like titans, he watches for other...

Harrison Hurst
Feb 141 min read


River Styx
The river doesn't care if you're ready. Mid-life catches you like an undertow, drags you into waters too deep for standing. One day...

Louise Worthington
Feb 142 min read


The Return of Persephone
Last night beneath my blankets, I lay still. I dreamt the moon had fled from winter’s wind. Boreas slung his cape across the skies and...

Jim Bellanca
Feb 142 min read


On the Seafloor
My mind, memories, and soul came into being—like waking up, only somehow, I was already awake. My dim cabin aboard the Samsa was more...

Josephine G Cambridge
Nov 16, 20244 min read


Nayarit Night Houses
Perhaps they too were lonely, Not among themselves so much As among their own kind. Loneliness was a hand reaching Through the darkness...

Christopher Woods
Nov 16, 20241 min read


Across the Marsh
Nobody batted an eye while the man with the carrion-crow mask handed the little girl flowers of violet. Not even the young farmhand, who...

Dani Arieli
Sep 21, 202410 min read


Hooves
“Tell me a bedtime story, mother,” the child says. “What kind of story?” the mother asks. “One of your scary ones. One about the...

A.K. McCarthy
Sep 20, 20245 min read
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