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Comrades on the Road
I believe there is a conspiracy ongoing involving all of us. I don’t know when or where it began, nor who initiated it. They occult from...

Edilson Afonso Ferreira
Mar 15, 20241 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


Hyperion
“What is your name?” I finally asked on that cold and hopeless morning, as we stood naked on the hilltop, knowing we were irredeemable....

Finnbar Howell
Jan 20, 20241 min read


Her Faerie Garden
Both are watered together, Faux-foliage and living plants, A mixture blessed by my spouse. Dampened in the early morning sun, Facets from...

Rick Hartwell
Jan 20, 20241 min read


(twelve)
Twelve of us dropped our pale feet against the ground on your orders thinking between the lines of a silk edged rope that perhaps despite...

Jordan Davidson
Jan 20, 20241 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 20, 20242 min read


His Sword Shone Brightly
His sword shone brightly, as I drew my own. May God forgive me. I had never fought one, so bold, and so knightly who held the throne. His...

Jared T. Wilkerson
Jan 20, 20241 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 20, 20241 min read


Of Gods and Monsters
Maybe we were better off When gods and monsters walked among us. When evil walked the world, But we knew it when we saw it. And the...

Kelly Winget
Jan 20, 20241 min read


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...

R. Gerry Fabian
Jan 20, 20241 min read


Hall of Mirrors
I once studied in the hall of mirrors, kept my back to the reflections. I never recognize myself anyway. I looked out the wall of windows...

Shana Ross
Jan 20, 20241 min read


The Cards
The Empress. The Ten of Cups. The King Of Swords. First comes a strange sensation, Like a poppy racing to bloom, Or a present hastily...

Holly Payne-Strange
Jan 20, 20241 min read


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...

Jim Murdoch
Jan 20, 20241 min read


boxed & delighted
boxed & delighted we sit knowing now is not the time to speak whether in doting monologues or mythic verse but sit we sit holding our own...

George Bandy
Jan 20, 20241 min read


Recurring Nightmare
The beloved science teacher does this every year: takes a large glass container to the front of the room, shows it to the class empty, of...

Shana Ross
Jan 20, 20242 min read


Conception of the Demigod
For you, I’d stand sacrificial on the plinth, neck first. Perhaps the gravest worship Is an oncoming death. My willingness to Spill. I...

Jordan Davidson
Jan 19, 20241 min read


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


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


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
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