The Things we Learnt about Sam after his Passing | By Megha Nayar
That he owned a closet full of sweaters he had knit himself. That the sweaters were absolutely gorgeous. That nobody from his circle –...
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- Dec 26, 2020
Summer from my Bedside Window | By Katie-May Sayers
A rare cloud comes into view. Birds swoop in and out of frame, wings cutting through a pollen-soaked breeze. I crack open the window,...
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- Dec 24, 2020
The Climb | By Gaia Donati
I wouldn’t put my finger there if I were you. There, that’s a better grip. I can see you are not ready to face death. La muerte,...
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- Dec 21, 2020
Not a B Student | By Paul Lewellan
I skipped lunch, content with a granola bar and an open pack of chocolate covered raisins found my desk drawer. I nibbled while sipping...
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- Dec 14, 2020
Primrose in Watercolour | By Lucy Holme
I I don’t like the way you made me look Cruel, old, dispassionate. You drew my eyebrows wrong. My hair line-disappears (like the years)...
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- Dec 7, 2020
Vanquishing Ghosts from JavaScript Dreams | By Nikki Bausch
In my dreams, Are buildings stolen from ${Vienna}, Background programs running, Like museum tourGuide monologues, While rotting, claw...
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- Dec 5, 2020
A Burial Abroad | By Samuel Harden
I know where he stood, and I know where he fell. They had told me of that hell, over sullen eyes and hats clutched in awkwardly shifting...
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- Dec 3, 2020
Open Palm | By Jamie Etheridge
I slapped him hard just to hear the sound All the while thinking This isn’t me My hand couldn’t shoot out Open palmed And connect with...
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- Nov 30, 2020
I Hope My Plants Aren't Dead | By Joe Ray W.
Get a house plant, that's what they said. It'll be good for you, that's what the internet said. Maybe I will, that's what I said.
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- Nov 28, 2020
Facebook Banner Upload | By Deryck N. Robertson
Today I changed the cover picture
On my Facebook profile
Like I’ve done dozens of times
Before
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- Nov 26, 2020
On the Anniversary of a Hanging | By Richard Henkle
T.W. The following poem contains themes related to suicide
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- Nov 21, 2020
Louis Blake Prefers to be Called Red
Louis Blake was born three months and twenty days before his biological father, Sam Coe, died in an explosion on the other side of the...
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- Nov 19, 2020
No Grapes and No Nuts | By J. Archer Avary
was it Jerry Seinfeld or some lesser observational comic who pointed out the misleading nomenclature of Grape Nuts cereal: ‘if they’re...
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- Nov 16, 2020
I Saw Rasputin | By Carl Boon
I saw Rasputin—or his shadow— near the limbs of the ash tree, our place, where the northern wall’s begun to crumble. Mama says his face...
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- Nov 14, 2020
In Lieu of Real Flowers | By Stephen Pisani
Here are a few of the standard questions all of us MBFS (Marble Ball Flower Salespeople) get asked. Included are several examples of possibl
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- Nov 12, 2020
The Oliphanti | By Rebecca Harrison
"Don’t feed the future," Dad laughed as he steered into the zoo car park. "Do they have food from the future here, too?" I pressed my...
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- Nov 9, 2020
Jeannie's Guide to Wonton Girls | Jenny Wong
Jenny Wong is a writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. She resides in the foothills of Alberta, Canada and tweets @jenwithwords
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