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Short Fiction and Poetry
Memory Meditation by William Campbell
There is something in my mind holding me back from what I wish to achieve, it is simply one desire after another – another goal [...]
El Doctor Cortez by Salome Vera
The front door says family practice. A pastel-colored waiting room waits for us, and its brightness is upsetting my eyes. [...]
Death Rattle Darkness by Kenneth Vincent Walker
I have seen both sides;
Now, I cannot close my
Eyes amid this freezing
Cold kiss of Death [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Unfinished Victorian Dream, a.k.a. Dizzy Spells by Dagne Forrest
I remember losing the horizon
and everything above it.
It doesn’t matter, you’d said,
distracted, fixing the plate
with silvered salts[...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Consumer Hunger by J.P. Relph
A couple months ago, I could navigate these streets in snowshoes. Pull myself forward by jabbing deep with ski poles. That’s impossible[...]
Photos of Eternity by Dennis Stein
Alex Martel had been a reporter and gardening enthusiast for years and was excited to be heading to a very special place. [...]
Closure; Examination by Tamiko Dooley
When I return from my year abroadÂ
you suggest we take a strollÂ
along the Isis river
behind Christ Church meadows [...]
They Call Me Mother Street by Michael Gigandet
Ever’body calls me Mother, even them who ain’t no kin to me. I’s born Sadie over in the Meade’s Chapel community and married [...]
A Bleak Night; Disordered Thoughts by George Freek
The night is a clock
without any face,
as it spins
in cosmic cacophony. [...]
Semicircle (or) The Arc of a Shore By Robert Frede Kenter
I would hold you closely
in the confines of a nightmare
We drift towards hollowness
not a mention of
empty pools of light [...]
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