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Short Fiction and Poetry
Street Corners by Joan McNerney
Enveloped in exhaust fumes
slate-like formations
wait for light to change
her carbon dress
his face of ashes [...]
Fields Burn by Ann Privateer
I’m writing with charcoal
in a field on fire
because fields burn
to burn [...]
I'll Try To Explain Why Zombies Make Me Sad by Wren Donovan
The original Night of the Living Dead, all silver shadowed black and white, would rise up in my hypnagogic sixteen-year-old brain [...]
Survival of an Empath by Louise Worthington
The voices around her shout their woes.
Her whole house
Quivers
The walls begin to shake
Melancholy breeze pries its fingertips [...]
Who Are We Today? by Michelle Jacobs
I wake up while being walked down a long beige corridor. There are doors in carefully measured increments along the corridor [...]
A House Divided by Kathleen Chamberlin
The war within me rages still:
An endless ebb and flow, high tides and low
A riptide of dangerous, clashing emotions [...]
Underwater by Kim Fahner
Her grandfather had always frightened Lauren with stories about what creatures lived at the bottom of the river [...]
The Spider Priest by Sugar de Santo
It was a hot night. He tossed and turned restlessly in his sheets. In his dream he saw a vast steppe [...]
4 Haiku by Jerome Berglund
jupiter's digestive tract:
small solar system
and one kuiper object [...]
The Autumn Harvest by Anastasia Arellano
The colors of autumn swirl around Olivia as she enjoys a late afternoon walk. Her rust-colored dog, Maisy, ambles along by her side [...]
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