A To-Do List For The Lost by Ruth Emeroe
1. In every tree, fairies are living. They giggle with the woodbugs and pour teeny tiny cups of tea while they listen to the wind. [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
A Delicate Rose by R.P. Logan
It shouldn’t be so hard at this time of night,
when the bars are starting to close,
I passed on a violet and gave up on a lily, [...]
Wandering by Leigh Therriault
Be careful where you wander
within deep woods and dark hollows
when secrets could be waiting. [...]
3 Poems by Richard LeDue
We still only have a handful of earth
filling palms best left unread
because the ending ruined
long before we were ever born,[...]
On The Occasion of a Friend's Departure From Vienna by David Richard Beasley
The sexual and the spiritual
intermingle.
Tonight was I betrayed [...]
Aunt Aggie by Lynn White
It was a beautiful seventeenth century farmhouse
in a picture postcard English village,
the family home of Liz
who would drop me off [...]
Lunch Conversation: Cadaver Parts; November Carnage by Jan Ball
Between forkfuls of fresh catfish,
Ted shares how his dentist built up
his jaw with ground cadaver bones [...]
Untitled X 3 by Margo Block
the castle brims with ghosts and nightmares
shut behind cobbled stone
a white shot against shadows
hands outstretched for directions [...]
Memento Mori by Annette Dekker
Clinging to antediluvian violet granite
at the foot of the Terry Fox memorial
in Thunder Bay
a magnificent hand-sized moth [...]
My Old Lady or in the Time of Wild Eyed Prophets and Grocery Carts by Brian Michael Barbeito
Do you know when it is the middle of dusk and you are in the centre of a liminal time? People don’t talk about the middle of dusk [...]
Italian Intrigue: A Quartet by R.P. Logan
Aroused from my sleep by a distant peal
a solemn, singular measure
and catch a glimpse through the curtain lace
of the woman I prize [...]
Pathway Into Darkness; The Wren by Kenneth Vincent Walker
Nightfall is rapidly
Approaching fast
Encroaching on the
Faltering daylight;
On the pathway to
Castle Dracula in
The very heart [...]
I Gave You My Reflection by Samuel Wise
I gave you my reflection
And became invisible
Like a phantom, called upon the night [...]
My Wife: Hardboiled Detective Noir by Louis Marvin
Did it ever get so bad, that your wife said please stop talking? [...]
Pollutours Trash Island Excursions: $349.99 by M.W. Irving
The hours slap-chugging a microbial path
At a bacterial pace
Across the shrugging ocean’s skin
Has reduced many to choking eels, [...]
Japan Was On His Bucket List; The Tiger And The Strawberry: A Buddhist Story by Jacqueline Jules
Why did he have to go to Japan?
That May.
It was too far for an impulse trip.
Even old people book tickets [...]
I Yearn by Wendy Bloom
The bars hem me in
They are in truth phantoms
My sandals drag circles
In the damp sand
forming trenches of forgetting [...]
Outside The Rift by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
Outside the clinic, the sun strikes white marble that covers the entire area, while the walls of glass on the right side [...]
For The Time Being; Winter Is On Its Way; Possibilities for a Girl on a Dirt Road by Laurie Kuntz
Why can’t we change
as quickly as an October landscape,
whose air no longer sounds with terns and jays [...]
3 Haiku by Christina Chin/Uchechukwu Onyedikam
roaming hand in hand
in a comely plain
all of a sudden [...]
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