Entertainment Value by Linda Allison
“Game night has been moved from your place to A’s house,” S informs me. “You’re welcome to join.”
Wait. [...]
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Short Fiction and Poetry
(For Salman Rushdie) by David R. Mellor
There are no words
Because words can lead to death [...]
999 by Laura McPherson
The year that I died, I started learning origami. My fingers dulled the folds with nervous perspiration and my jaw ached [...]
Prophecy; Defiance by Petar Penda
A prophecy says the sea will drown clouds
Disarm them of thunder and lightning,
Of heavy rains, hail and snow [...]
9.81; Closing In On My Aloofness; Morals Murky As A Duck Pond by Richard LeDue
Gravity pulls on a feather as much
as a bowling ball, but other things
get in the way, slowing a feathery descent [...]
How this love is a gun by Clara Burghelea
We jinxed ourselves to the marrow of the night,
never to catch a wink of sleep, I am no fisherman,
you whisper [...]
Dad Jokes; Oenophilia by K.R. Wilson
consider the dad joke:
a corny response to a
trivial ambiguity
(hi hungry, i’m dad ) [...]
The Writer by Owolusi Lucky
In the calm evening lights with night fast approaching, Johnson sits at a table in his favorite corner of the bar [...]
Funktionlust by K. R. Wilson
A shaving curls from the edge of the birch log, long and even. Jesse keeps his buck knife sharp [...]
You Needn't Search Alone; Homesick Wanderlust by Lawrence Moore
Long after darkness first strolled out to play,
we cut the torches, possibly to sleep,
convinced all other lights were slunk away [...]
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