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The Hurt VoteNon-fiction

The Hurt Vote

Grady VanWrightJune 6, 2025

They vote to hurt the other man. That’s what it looks like. They don’t vote for roads or bread or doctors or better schools…

i love TrumpPoetry

i love Trump

Lance WatsonJune 4, 2025

i love Trump. there, i said it. go ahead, judge me. he’s loud, he stinks, he humps everything with a pulse, and he once…

Mad auntie Pauline was rightPoetry, Poetry

Mad auntie Pauline was right

Niall M OliverMay 28, 2025

She'd waited around for him all day. Had prepared his favourite meal. Even wore the earrings he liked, the swingy ones with the sparkly…

The Christo ApartmentsFiction

The Christo Apartments

Sherry CassellsMay 25, 2025

I passed her building again yesterday on the train. It’s wrapped like a Christo – do you know Christo? – it's been in this state I…

TariffsFiction, Humor

Tariffs

Lance WatsonMay 22, 2025

The morning started the way it always did: half a joint and a bowl of Frosted Flakes. The cereal was stale and the joint…

On Getting OldPoetry

On Getting Old

Mike CasettaMay 21, 2025

I’ve long wanted an excuse to shuffle my feet to take small steps to own a few canes My favorite is a walking stick…

BrokePoetry

Broke

Daniel J. Flore IIIMay 18, 2025

old pennies gone as smiling like you got a wad styrofoam cup crack in the dirt yellow teeth dirty fingernail scratch a skipping album…

TowniesPoetry, Poetry

Townies

Acklum HarwoodMay 16, 2025

we are a population of dead kings and drug lords descended from outlaws generations of sunsets and murmurations carvers of gargoyles breeders of pigeons…

New DishesPoetry, Poetry

New Dishes

Ann KammererMay 11, 2025

Mom started getting emerald green dishes every time she went to the grocery store. She said Joe’s Food Mart was giving away free dinnerware…

The DOGZ of WarCartoon, Creative Non-Fiction, Fiction

The DOGZ of War

Lance WatsonMay 8, 2025

They came in loud, laughing, chewing gum like it was some new Olympic sport. Kids in expensive sneakers and hoodies that probably cost more…

Nightmares with Howie — Our Purple YearsFiction

Nightmares with Howie — Our Purple Years

Sherry CassellsMay 7, 2025

Just before sunrise, the sky above the lavender farm roared into purple, and the dawn came tinted. Picture me a purple-eyed child insomniac, skinny…

I Woke Up and Johnny Cash Was Singing Personal JesusPoetry

I Woke Up and Johnny Cash Was Singing Personal Jesus

John GurneyMay 4, 2025

his voice haunts me tonight grief is the price you pay for loving someone I know that well I’ve  paid mine on the installment plan…