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Brain dead fuckwits everywherePoetry

Brain dead fuckwits everywhere

Michael AshleyAugust 2, 2019

waxing their cars on Sunday afternoons plodding towards darkening horizons pushing their prams eating their leggings at the back end and stuffing a Gregs…

The Blue GhostFiction

The Blue Ghost

Ann KammererJuly 30, 2019

He gave her a book that was navy blue and hardcover and had a strip of numbers taped on the spine. “You’ll like it,”…

Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”Poetry

Selections from “A Thousand and One Cranes”

Miya KoJuly 24, 2019

Last Word Before he left, his finger on my arm drawing something, I said it quick: blossom, but it felt like goodbye. Lesson for…

The Minister’s DaughterArt, Poetry, Visual Poetry

The Minister’s Daughter

Dale PattersonJuly 22, 2019

The technique is called blockout poetry, a type of found poetry. I used selected words from a page in one of Flannery O’Connor’s short…

Chef vs. WaiterPoetry

Chef vs. Waiter

Lawrence GeorgeJuly 17, 2019

come at me, Chef get yourself within my radius I warn you I’ve armed myself with a corkscrew and a ballpoint pen my cocktail…

After Crossing Bobtail CreekPoetry

After Crossing Bobtail Creek

Doug FlahertyJuly 16, 2019

There are voices in me so old, I cannot decipher. Like divers they speak to each other under water. They bubble up grains of…

It’s been a half century since the fairPoetry

It’s been a half century since the fair

Sara ClancyJuly 13, 2019

and I have given up naming cars, waist length hair and wishing for a horse. I do not believe I will live in a…

Artificial IntelligencePoetry

Artificial Intelligence

Morgan DriscollJuly 11, 2019

The last time at the office of the otolaryngologist I had smartly typed my next appointment promptly on my smart phone screen at the…

MeaningPoetry

Meaning

Michael AckerJune 30, 2019

Is it found in the thickets that line the paths through our minds, or in the simple words that form so easily out of…

How to win an argument: lesson #17, DadPoetry

How to win an argument: lesson #17, Dad

Eliot JacobsonJune 27, 2019

it's an obscure ornithological fact the lifespan of a common hummingbird is 20 to 25 years and i know hummingbirds i feed them equal…

Summer of CrowsFiction

Summer of Crows

Ann KammererJune 23, 2019

The cawing started in the morning at no particular time, unlike the trills of songbirds that started at dawn. Instead, the cawing began with…