The Way Of Things; One Day by Richard LeDue
Too many of us bury ourselves under smiles,
believing in the flat happiness
of dollar bills, [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
A Remedy For The Rat Race by Rizza Corella Punsalan
1, 2, 3. Joe drank as quickly as he could so nobody could catch him. Flames licked his throat, and sunlight held his skin [...]
Sickroom; Guidelines by Michael Igoe
Sickroom A matter of fact thrill likely bends in an arc A thrill sends signals in different directions. ...
Disciple by Chris Klassen
When I first announced that I was leaving everything to follow Him, my wife and daughter couldn't understand. [...]
Self-Eye by Eddie Malone
I understood very early that I was not Bonny despite what my parents named me. But I could make myself forget. [...]
Unraveling by Dinah Susan Alobeid
Celeste hunches over the bin. Plick. Plick plick. Peeler against sweet potato taps out the percussive diatribe ever playing around her[...]
Order; The Saguaro by A.R. Arthur
We drown daily in a deluge
Of distortions and images;
Widely disseminated narratives
Of wanton carnage [...]
The Heirloom by Philip Madden
All of Annie’s life had been devoted to making herself disappear, from the time her mother had vanished [...]
Under The Willow Tree Now; Short Stories Are Safer by Richard LeDue
The shade is a shade of loneliness,
while the fresh air is ruined
by the stink of a cancer diagnosis,
falling out of a doctor's mouth [...]
Why Is The Couch Missing? by Kevin Lynch
The apartment smelled the same as it had for the last three weeks and it wasn’t exactly pleasant [...]
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