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PoetryHow To Fall Asleep During Wartime
Forget the talking head on your screen, hawking sleep aids. The real reason you can’t sleep is the dark tunnel—how…
Poetrylisten to your mother
the sword swallower swallowed his sword the hilt was not wide enough to act as a stop so now what?…
PoetryLOCHIEL
Driving around town, I mistook a young saguaro for a girl in a green jumpsuit, hitchhiking. Fuckin’ geriatric eyes! I…
PoetryA Naked Truth
You’re not seeing the real, entire me so here’s a flash of my flesh— the bareness I need to get…
PoetryComing Home
The mogra outside the window blooms after the rain. You bring one flower close, and the room quietly fills with…
PoetryHuffy-Puffy
I thought about calling Mom when she didn’t call me. Dad said no. “I told you she’ll call when she…
Non-fictionOverwatch
The rooftop was somebody’s home before the war made it a position. Concrete. A low wall. A laundry line gone…
PoetryThe Empty Bed
We always slept on our left sides, ,,,,,my right arm over you. But now you sleep on the ceiling, ,,,,,in…
PoetryIn a Ninth Life
Hebrews 13:2 ‘Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.’ Silly to ask…
PoetryLast Shall Be Last
Our Eastern jet rescheduled 5 minutes back to fly an hour late is boarding now and threatening to leave 3/4…
Poetrywanted
man of advanced age seeks good people he can be nice to people he can say nice things to &…
Poetry.moth.
small thing ragged who knows all of it pieces torn away or is it a moth here in the dark? triangles…
PoetryThe Old Wishing Distance
I saw it first as a meteor, streaking low and orange over the parking garage, and for one clean second…
PoetryTHE COUNTRYSIDE, FINALLY
for once, i didn't want to revenge fuck you i didn't want your heart under glass in the museum of…
PoetrySeeds
There wasn’t a seed he wouldn’t save. Vials of seeds from all those years of gardens grown were stored everywhere,…
PoetryLow Kick
One barred heater of the sun, with a low kick blinds. Puffer jacket clouds knit pulled thread of the sky.…
Fiction, Flash and Short FictionHonorable Mention
Dixie Carver, age 49, died today surrounded by her family and a chorus of parishioners from her family’s church. Throughout…