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Short Fiction and Poetry


Broadcast by Christian Barragan
Tara lay lifeless in her bed. The overcast evening sky taunted her, for it was nearly time to go to work. [...]


Books by Angela Arnold
Enough beer in my sails and I will declaim
till the proverbial cows fly over the gate, [...]


Plum Psalm by Lilah Warren
They are bailing water, my tears, from the sinking ship like Alice.
I remember coaxing plums into my mouth in September [...]


Satan In Salem by Marc Egnal
Fleeing to the New World was supposed to bring safety. That hope proved to be a cruel deception. [...]


Zakarias by Zary Fekete
And then one day I knew I must find Zakarias. I remembered his name from my childhood, spoken of softly and with reverence [...]


Trash-Man; The Ex At The Coffeehouse by John Grey
My father and I go to the city dump.
Amid the mountains of smell and scurrying rodents,
we're looking for the trash of others [...]


Scarves; Thrift Shop by Joan McNerney
I want to make scarves from the sky.
Since I’m not much of a seamstress,
here’s hoping it won’t be too hard. [...]


Vendetta by John-Paul Cote
1925. America. Prohibition. Chicago Heights. A suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Serving Chicago and the greater area. A population of over...


3 Collaborative Tan-Renga Poems by Mystic Poet (Christina Chin/Uchechukwu Onyedikam)
3 Collaborative Tan-Renga Poems by Mystic Poet (Christina Chin/Uchechukwu Onyedikam) [...]


Taken to the Cleaners by Boyd Blackwood
The manager of Rusterman’s Restaurant is much annoyed when Wendy, the new hostess, interrupts him [...]
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