Short Fiction and Poetry

One Thousand Fifty-Three On My Body by Brahmani Tirumalaraju

I buried his cold corpse with parched and sapped hands, as I began to sense all the numbers on my body convulse. [...]

Apothecary Birds by Vikki C.

I wrote my name in the dust for the last time. You knew my habits well - an ailing language that led us both astray. [...]

Penance by Kathleen Strongarone

Another night has come and gone. Another night of counting the hours until daybreak. Another morning watching the sun slowly rise [...]

Can You Hear Me Now? by Screams Of Unfettered Minds

Sitting alone in my own despair Just off in the distance ringing I hear That familiar sound of my phone's ringtone [...]

A Sale Lease-Back by Aneeka Usman

"Selling? Yeah, I am aware that’s what people call it," he tittered.Contrary to what I was told, he didn’t have pointy, shark-like teeth[..]

I Want To Chop The Moon Into Tiny Pieces by Hemanta Dalpati, trans. Pitambar Naik

We compose songs on a moonlit night, we sing humobauli and play hide and seek, on a moonlit night, go to the jungle [...]

I Hear You by Collins Aguilar

He brought a gun to the house. It is a cold and heavy and alien-looking thing that Daniel waves in his left hand [...]

It Began With Water by Shirley Jones Luke

It began with water. It began with bodies in the water. It began with African bodies in the water. [...]

Soulful Voices by Ali Ashhar

I sit beneath the sky on a midsummer night aside the brook aloof from the turbulence and cacophonies I try to evade

Staring At A World Gone By by Richard M. Ankers

I'm staring at a world gone by, laughing without reason or want. There are people on the pathways and cars on the street, but they hide[...]

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