Skytrain Serenade, a Poem by Ace Baker*
I’ve learned to keep my faith in place, and sing of streets, warm hands cupped around coffee, fresh memories steaming to the surface,...
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Oct 4, 20231 min read
Firefly, a Poem by Katherine Gotthardt*
The world could use more fireflies. Not in a jar, but brightening that space – you know, the one between the space, the night we stare...
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Oct 4, 20231 min read
Like a Snail I'll Taste the World an Inch at a Time, a Poem by Anne Marie Wells*
A ribcage After Athena Liu I'm nearing the second cairn, the first long gone [like] that first summer I learned how cruelty can live by...
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Oct 4, 20232 min read
Hanamo, a Poem by Flo Au*
Cluster bombs of ashes and metals and petals of you and me and him and her suffocate the air in the blizzards of fears swiveling our...
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Oct 4, 20231 min read
Stay Till the Dawn, You Might Get the Sun, a Poem by Fatima Abdullahi*
I gave my country a home in my chest. With my first cry and my father's signature, I stamped my mark into its soil, & clothed myself with...
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Sep 29, 20233 min read
My New Father Has More and Better, a Short Story by Awara Fernandez
Our sons lived for five years in an orphanage in the rainforest of Puerto Maldonado, Peru after their biological parents died. When our...
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Sep 22, 20231 min read
Kingdom of Chaos, a Poem by Scott Thomas Outlar
We don’t want your money, just your soul on a silver platter served to order for our warm feast while we spit out your raw famine. We...
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Sep 8, 20236 min read
Lost Boys, a Short Story by Ann van Wijgerden
Chaos. Wrenching at her. It will sweep her away if it can. Clari’s left hand grips the gummy steering wheel, her right the stubborn gear...
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Sep 1, 20231 min read
As the Crow Flies, a Prose Poem by Joe Bisicchia
Feather instead my wings. All the way home, over the streets, for here we are. In truth, none alone. Christ, O Truth, take my hand.
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Aug 25, 20232 min read
Neverland, Flash Fiction by Daylund Prior
I am not a lost boy.
Lost girl. It doesn’t sound the same, the name doesn’t roll off the tongue. No, girls cannot be allowed in Neverland.
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Aug 11, 20231 min read
I Will Take You with Me, a Poem by Ann Christine Tabaka
I will take you with me beyond dark
doorways propped open with slivers
of light. Along winding trails in a blackened forest
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Aug 4, 20231 min read
The Cost of Penance, a Poem by Ann Christine Tabaka
There is no justice that can be bought, no time that can
be spared. Words spoken incoherently, scatter in the wind.
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Jul 28, 20238 min read
Landlord Attack, Short Story by Gary Beck
Jaime Perez crept up the fire escape as quietly as he could and stopped at the third floor. He leaned over the guard rail to the kitchen...
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Jul 21, 20232 min read
Golden Triangle, 2022, Non-fiction by Donna Obeid
I looked for everything the way it was twenty years ago. Buffalo boys balancing on the horizon. Bungalows on stilts with woven reed...
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Jul 14, 20231 min read
To an Empty Doghouse in Tall Weeds, a Poem by Sherry Poff
With open face you welcome the stranger looking for home. Built for a hound, you could be shelter for a multitude of field mice, a...
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Jul 7, 20231 min read
August 27th at 3:43 p.m. Flash Fiction by Thomas Elson
At this stage in his life he worried about everything. Five days before his seventy-eighth birthday, he scanned his body. Eyes cloudy....
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Jun 24, 20232 min read
Translation Memory, and Your Principle of Reduction? a Poem by Desmond F. X. Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
“True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if...
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Jun 16, 20231 min read
Make a Difference! a Poem by D.R. James
—a villanelle to commencement speakers everywhere Tonight, fatigue’s grim flower unfurls, but Gandhi, gunned down, had this to say: “Be...
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Jun 9, 20231 min read
Whales, a Poem by Burt Rashbaum
You loved our songs. named us by our flukes, watched entranced as we danced on the waves but we knew we were still endangered....
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Jun 2, 20237 min read
Stationery, Short Story by Kenneth M. Kapp
Harry pneumatically lowered the front of the bus. John smiled, went along with the joke, and hunched over as if he were an old man. He...
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