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Indelible (Thanksgiving)

Julie Desmond -
Fiction

The Wormhole Killers

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

SING, DAMN YOU

Trish Saunders -
blue and white logo guessing game
Poetry

Write You Back

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

Short Verses in Caribbean History, 1. I See Fire in Haiti

Trina Layne -
Non-fiction

Obscure Object of Desire

heidi selig -
Fiction

A Package from Home

Sherry Cassells -
Fiction

The Two Stones

james stephen -
Poetry

an interesting night in the emergency room

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Explosions

Miya Ko -
Poetry

Alone

Dale M. Tushman -
Poetry

big nose (for Spark)

Tiko Lewis -
Poetry

Train

james stephen -
Poetry

how to be a great professor

Lance Watson -
Poetry

bottom of the glass

Lance Watson -
Poetry

An Old Dog Reads Keats

Bob Bradshaw -
Fiction

Art of the Steal: Portrait Gallery Appoints New Director With Unmatched...

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Potato Soup for the Lovelorn

heidi selig -
Poetry

time travel with karsten

Lance Watson -
Fiction

Your call is important to us

Lance Watson -
Quotations

Technology and Time

OAF Artists & Writers -
Fiction

The Golden Years of Gary Goldenberg

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Coins in the Canal

Grady VanWright -
Fiction

The Last Few Miles

Lance Watson -
Fiction

DELETE MY PICTURES

Lance Watson -
Non-fiction

The Urn

heidi selig -
Fiction

Big Semicolon Sale!

Raymond Huffman -
Poetry

good guys

Lance Watson -
Humor

billionaires gone bitchmode: the final tweetdown

Lance Watson -
Poetry

lessons from my dead father

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Hush

Hugh Lemma -
Fiction

The Season of Laughter

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

on the bench with karsten behind the grocery store

Lance Watson -
person standing near white painted building
Poetry

Did we meet on Matchmakers.com?

Christine Dubuc -
Poetry

tomatoes

Lance Watson -
Art

.this.

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

counterpoint

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Tonight This Night

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

PATHETIC, ALL

Tom Riordan -
Fiction

A Peaceful World

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Outlaw

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Twilight Cinema

D. E. Kern -
United States of America flag on window pane
Non-fiction

The Hurt Vote

Grady VanWright -
Poetry

i love Trump

Lance Watson -
Poetry

Mad auntie Pauline was right

Niall M Oliver -
Fiction

The Christo Apartments

Sherry Cassells -
Fiction

Tariffs

Lance Watson -
Poetry

On Getting Old

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

Broke

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Townies

Acklum Harwood -
Poetry

The Chimney Hawk

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

New Dishes

Ann Kammerer -
Cartoon

The DOGZ of War

Lance Watson -
Fiction

Nightmares with Howie — Our Purple Years

Sherry Cassells -
Poetry

Not Unlike…

Michael Acker -
Poetry

Hope

Bethany Lim -
Poetry

I Woke Up and Johnny Cash Was Singing Personal Jesus

John Gurney -
Poetry

TIMES I FELT LIKE A LOSER

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

.neutered.

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
Poetry

Catching up with the Dead

Jennifer Wilder -
Poetry

What If We Did Everything Right?

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

First World Problem

Lance Jencks -
Poetry

Artemis

Tom Riordan -
Creative Non-Fiction

Feb. 1, 2025

heidi selig -
American flag in building
Poetry

Elegy for American Democracy

Mark Grinyer -
Fiction

Opening Sentences 101

Sherry Cassells -
Silhouette of an elderly man standing with cane, gazing out of curtain-covered window.
Poetry

From the Retirement Home, Emailing Love Letters to My Dead Wife

Bob Bradshaw -
assorted bobblehead figurines inside the store
Poetry

New Orleans Airport Chapel

Tom Riordan -
Fiction

Racoon Hunting

Elizabeth Dunn -
selective focus photography of man's reflection on a broken mirror
Poetry

Visions

Alexander Limarev -
brown dried leaves on persons hand
Poetry

How Do You Know When You’re Dead

John Gurney -
Poetry

Cancer is a window into death

heidi selig -
australian shepherd, dog, snow, snowing, pet, animal, domestic dog, canine, mammal, cute, snowfall, winter, forest, nature, outdoors, portrait, australian shepherd, dog, dog, dog, dog, dog
Poetry

Dog Pees on Moonlit Snow

heidi selig -
Fiction

Benny the Bard: A Modern Epic

Grady VanWright -
a cloud of smoke
Poetry

Gray is the Only Color Containing All Colors (and it’s also...

Robert Stastny -
open turntable
Fiction

Forty-Fives

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

IT’S CHRISTMAS AND I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THE BALLS...

Daniel J. Flore III -
red cinema chair
Poetry

Candy Box Kazoos

Barry Burgess -
Poetry

Clock Radio #2: The Bukowski Issue

Jay Dougherty -
Showcase

along the stream that fell from clouds & other poems

Milner Place -
Poetry

The Final Love Poem

Cheryl Leverette -
Quotations

I just get tired

Charles Bukowski -
Poetry

There Should Be an Animal

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Now

james stephen -
Poetry

EARLY CHRISTMAS

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

The Purpose of Floors

Matt Dennison -
A detailed image showcasing a cracked egg with yolk spilling out on a blue surface.
Poetry

The Price of Eggs

Andy Posner -
Poetry

The Poem I Didn’t Want To Write

Grady VanWright -
Fiction

Mother

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Close up of Barman Hands Preparing Drink
Humor

this poem is for every drunk who is sober today

Mike Casetta -
Non-fiction

Dad

heidi selig -
Fiction

Note taped on door: To the occupants of 107 Borbleblartt Street

heidi selig -
Poetry

Pantoum: American Recessional

Wim Coleman -
wash, hands, soap
Poetry

ASSHOLE

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

googling for hope

Rob Breeding -
Fiction

Night Walk

Pat Perrin -
Poetry

When I got free

Anisa Mosaiebiniya -
Fiction

The Hitman

Michael Acker -
a pile of small white objects on a white surface
Poetry

Anaphora

Wim Coleman -
Fiction

HomeGirl

Dale M. Tushman -
Poetry

Potter’s Island

Wim Coleman -
Poetry

Johnny the Cat

Lawrence George -
Poetry

Prelude in E Minor or Milner Place Hoists Sail

Mark A. Murphy -
Poetry

Hunger

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Three Thin Shadows

Matt Dennison -
Fiction

David’s Wife

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Non-fiction

Pushing Potatoes at a Point in Time

Kay Elewski -
Fiction

Androcles & Mars

Sherry Cassells -
Fiction

The Man Speaks

Matt Dennison -
Fiction

The Cure

Jordan Trethewey -
aerial view of village on mountain cliff during orange sunset
Poetry

Suicidal in Tuscany

Jenn Zed -
Fiction

The Interview

Sherry Cassells -
Poetry

Liminal

David Belcher -
blue orange green and yellow plastic toy
Fiction

Magnets of Faith and Knowing

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

The Wind

Matt Dennison -
Woman Sitting on Brown Textile Beside White Cup of Coffee
Poetry

One of the Many Reasons I Miss You

Mike Casetta -
Creative Non-Fiction

Martyr Musical

Davey Do -
Poetry

EARTH LAG

Daniel J. Flore III -
green cactus during daytime
Poetry

Mom Called

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

JAWIN’ WITH THE WIND

Daniel J. Flore III -
Fiction

Very Best Mother

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Non-fiction

Camel

Colin Payton -
Fiction

Bereaved

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Fiction

Last Word Dressed in a Gray Suit

Akeith Walters -
Poetry

Sparks

Elina Ghanbari -
seashore during daytime
Poetry

Remembering Sand

Trish Saunders -
white Android smartphone near green plant
Non-fiction

Love Springs from Descendants of the Personal Ad

Kay Elewski -
Poetry

Birds of Florida

Bob Bradshaw -
Non-fiction

Day 98449509735209

Robert Stastny -
man in gray sweater leaning on van window
Fiction

BULLSHIT INSURANCE

Daniel J. Flore III -
Women's Black and Red Lace Bra
Poetry

Apprehension

Ray Miller -
Poetry

Beginning with “needless”

james stephen -
Poetry

Cereal for Dinner

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

Trains are Shorter, Now

Skyler Kimock -
Poetry

The Bears in my Life

John Gurney -
Poetry

Guangdon

Andy Posner -
Poetry

On A Wednesday Morning

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

The Moon On The Moor

Marc Woodward -
Poetry

Mid-January

Skyler Kimock -
Poetry

Reasons to Send Advice-Givers On Their Way

Trish Saunders -
Poetry

THE SPIRIT ANIMAL SOCIETY

Jefferson Carter -
Poetry

Light the Candle

Bob Bradshaw -
Poetry

When we finally met

Elizabeth Dunn -
a black and white photo of a woman with long hair
Poetry

The Voodoo of Doll Shoes

John Gurney -
man sitting on table typing on typewriter
Poetry

WHY YOU SHOULDN’T BE A POET

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Cheeseburgers and Tattoos

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Holding the Center

D. E. Kern -
Poetry

Endless Rain and Wine

Trish Saunders -
Fiction

We Drove to LA from Phoenix in 1965 to Buy French...

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

It’s Okay to Sleep

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

January thinking

Jan Harper -
Poetry

In Three Parts

Michael Acker -
Poetry

A Big Pit

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

Thank you

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

I’m Going to Let Myself Go

Sara Clancy -
a woman raising her arms in the air in front of tents
Poetry

Writing Group

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

Saṃsāra

Matt Dennison -
brown and black food on blue ceramic plate
Poetry

Sweet Treat

Ann Kammerer -
Poetry

In Love with a Woman in Her Later Years (for Harmina)

Ieuan ap hywel -
Poetry

Stung by news of poaching

David Belcher -
Poetry

an offering of peanuts

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

New Years Day

John Gurney -
Poetry

Where Is Peace On Earth? (After Linda Pastan)

Hugh Lemma -
an airplane window with a view of the sky and clouds
Poetry

Mediums

D. E. Kern -
Poetry

An Idyllic Sickness

Jordan Trethewey -
Poetry

THE MOST RECENT CONVERSATION

Obed Ladiny -
Poetry

Looking through you

Ken Tomaro -
Poetry

Enlightenment

Andy Posner -
Poetry

Leak at the Gym

Rich Glinnen -
Poetry

Pigeon

Skyler Kimock -
Poetry

A long time

Oliver Stansfield -
Poetry

Because time is an artist

Sara Clancy -
Poetry

The Man I Fell in Love With

Soodabeh Saeidnia -
Poetry

Adept

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Why I Am Moving to Ireland

D. E. Kern -
Fiction

Watercolour Lake

Sherry Cassells -
Poetry

Zacchaeus

Dale Patterson -
1 U.S.A dollar banknotes
Poetry

Why America’s Democracy Is Going Bankrupt

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

The Daughter

Peter Cashorali -
Poetry

My Chaste Eye

Paul Brookes -
Poetry

The Tree Ring Record

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Zealots

Mike Casetta -
Poetry

And holy holy, the life it held

Nathalie Spaans -
Poetry

The Dead Out Here

james stephen -
Poetry

Little Infinities

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Charlie Goes to New Castle

Robert Stastny -
Poetry

Baba Yaga, a Twisted Ghazal

Susan Peters -
Poetry

Two Poets

Miya Ko -
Poetry

The Love Death Cannot Touch

Tom Strong -
Poetry

Tribute from a Wooden Hut

Ieuan ap hywel -
Poetry

Strand #1: Abstractions

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

Pay rate sucks, but

Obed Ladiny -
Poetry

Afterlife

Sara Clancy -
Photography

Coastal Epiphanies

Morgan Driscoll -
group of women facing backward
Fiction

Sisters

Sherry Cassells -
two white doves flying
Poetry

Mourning In Five Parts

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

The Nature of Your Emergency

Morgan Driscoll -
Poetry

The Ancients

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Day Trip with Dog

Mike Casetta -
black and gray stones during daytime
Poetry

7:55a.m.

james stephen -
Poetry

A thread in Crete

Nathalie Spaans -
man walking at blacktop road with turned on streetlights
Poetry

Afterlight

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

it wasn’t pornographic

silent lotus -
Poetry

September’s End

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

terlingua

Rob Breeding -
Poetry

..as a child..

Sonja Benskin Mesher -
a plate of food
Poetry

BREAKFAST ALFRESCO

Daniel J. Flore III -
forest against sunlight at daytime
Poetry

Abscission

Tom Strong -
orange Persian cat sleeping
Poetry

Cats

Matt Dennison -
Poetry

Metazure

Hugh Lemma -
Poetry

In a Forest

Sherry Cassells -
Fiction

If I Should Die

Kaci Skiles Laws -
Poetry

Salsa with Doubt

Jay Gandhi -
Poetry

Morning Visit

Peter Cashorali -
grey and blue train on train station during daytime
Fiction

I Got Bats

Sherry Cassells -
seven assorted-color clothes pegs hanging on rope
Fiction

Jack Struggles with an Equation

Cameron McClure -
Poetry

THE RUSTY WHITE PICK UP

Daniel J. Flore III -
Poetry

Dappled Daisies and Curious Butterflies

Matt Dennison -
Fiction

Snowfire

Cameron McClure -
Fiction

A face of regal splendor

Nathalie Spaans -
Poetry

Four Interlaced Horses -Ekphrasis

Susan Peters -
neon sign reading bar cocktails dreams disco party
Poetry

WITH THE NEON LIGHTS OF THE STRIP CLUB FLASHING

Daniel J. Flore III -
a black and white photo of a classroom
Fiction

Two Requests

Walter Rimler -
brown brick wall on green grass field during daytime
Poetry

Imaginary telephone

David Belcher -
black staircase in dark room
Poetry

A Dream of the Basement

Vincent Casaregola -
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