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After her best friend’s hubby’s funeralPoetry

After her best friend’s hubby’s funeral

Paul BrookesDecember 4, 2023

or divorce or some means by which the poor lass is on her own, My lass, without fail, will ask me: What are you…

I might not be here longPoetry

I might not be here long

Daniel J. Flore IIIDecember 3, 2023

I’ll die. I’ll go brain dead. I mean, I’ll be here but in some straw wrapper exiting through the skull and brain matter. What’s…

StumpPoetry

Stump

Ann KammererDecember 1, 2023

Sun sliced through the window warming my face, my skin tinted pink by skinny morning clouds. Mom was sleeping. Harry was up. His footsteps…

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italian blue

Rob BreedingNovember 29, 2023

somewhere between a full irish breakfast in galway & a sunny sail on the mediterranean, i dove between gentle waves, swam circles on my…

ssri’s at the MuseePoetry

ssri’s at the Musee

Lawrence GeorgeNovember 28, 2023

i feel so goddamn happy, sometimes i wanna take the damn out of God grab fistfuls of his oxygen steal that single beam of…

Every PlayPoetry

Every Play

james stephenNovember 27, 2023

The hurried girls in flight the mighty half to rule the rabid roasting meat and placing it on the dirty tray I'd like to…

Heavens to Murgatroyd — A Love StoryFiction

Heavens to Murgatroyd — A Love Story

Sherry CassellsNovember 25, 2023

Every once in a while I feel a love story coming on it’s like nourishment. I don’t even remember who shot JR about that…

VeritiesPoetry

Verities

HughLemmaNovember 24, 2023

tenets of the most devout are tempered with a tinge of doubt; every joyous moment spent will cost a hundred in lament; beauty passes…

We Will Go Again in AutumnPoetry

We Will Go Again in Autumn

Raymond HuffmanNovember 23, 2023

The wind will change color and we will go fishing at daybreak even as things can’t happen as they did before but approximation of…

After You’ve Gone: Horses and CigarettesPoetry

After You’ve Gone: Horses and Cigarettes

Trish SaundersNovember 22, 2023

She calls to me across the pasture. Over here, I answer. Grasses shrink from her big yellow teeth as she approaches— weeds don’t know…

Fool MoonPoetry

Fool Moon

Tom StrongNovember 21, 2023

the star of the show out for a daytime stroll masquerading as a round cloud wearing designer shades trying to go unnoticed before tonight’s…

The VapoursPoetry

The Vapours

Ray MillerNovember 20, 2023

The windows weep for wilder air to sweep the ghost imprisoned where   I sleep these widow weedy days; your smell still bathes my pillow…