Monthly Verse
Hoi Polloi
by Craig Kite
November 12, 2018
Who bolt like thieves dispersed by florescence,
who fold under the weight of a leaf,
who retract their hands from germinations
who in headlights freeze...
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Prose
Next on Maury: One Set of Twins. Two Baby Daddies!
by Michael Leal García
September 01, 2018
When the doctor raised what should have been the first of his twin sons, Danny saw a head of wooly hair and Vantablack skin that couldn’t have come from him or Liliana, who tugged at his sleeve and shouted something he couldn’t make out. Her words an unintelligible din as her anguished face dimmed and drifted out of frame... read more >
PROSE
Damage Control
by Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri
June 28, 2018
It’s been a long time since he woke up choking on his own heartbeat, but he still allows for that extra half-hour in the morning in case he needs to talk himself down. He’s only needed it three, four times in the past year, but his alarm stays put. So most mornings Roberto locks the door of his bachelor apartment earlier than he needs to, walks quietly down two flights of stairs and out to his car... read more >
Prose
Traveling At A Crossroads, Italy November 2017
by David Charles Barudin
September 07, 2018
From where I sit at an outdoor café off Piazza Maggiore in the heart of Bologna’s old city, I face the main basilica and the 12th Century towers of the oldest university in Europe. There’s no rush... read more >
Monthly Verse
FROM A TELESCOPE FROM THE WARD
by Zack Stein
July 11, 2018
The Summer morning rose through the earth
like hallucination, my mother the shade of strawberry-milk
and skull, humming new names for God
as I enter the world—all that gale force—I had
found that the wailing tendrils of victims are timbered
and sticky, understood that giving
thanks was to sit in silence...
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