Looking for God in My Enemy’s Breath, an Essay by Jessica Natasha Lawrence
—it’s the pain of those unmet needs that exposes your claws and bares your teeth. Every fallen feather is a prayer—God, save this world.
top of page
Contributor
Oct 182 min read
A Letter to the Past, a Poem by Nana Amma Adomaa Abrefa
Mama,
do not weep for the flower
that withered in the cold,
for I have bloomed anew
Contributor
Sep 274 min read
Slaughtering Lies, a Short Story by Awara Fernández
There has been harm in my story, and as in all good stories, an enemy lurking. Sometimes we say, “I would not wish this on my worst enemy,”
Contributor
Jul 121 min read
Prayer 6, a Poem by Robert Nersesian
I wanted to leave this earth,
join you and your son.
You wanted nothing of it.
Sent angels to rip up my passport,
keep me in the country.
Contributor
May 241 min read
Above Rio de Janeiro, a Poem by John C. Mannone
The forest never sleeps
and also cries for redemption, the soul
of the Amazon, the trees of life-giving
air.
Contributor
May 38 min read
Ventriloquist, a Short Story by R. Craig Sautter
“If there is no God, what is left?” he interrogated himself. He stood motionless in a warm, dry wind, felt himself falling into an eternity
Contributor
Apr 262 min read
Another Military Coup, a Poem by Michael Shoemaker
shallow breathing - high piercing sirens screech in the streets -
crouching shoulders - whispers -
fences keeping enemies of the state in -
Contributor
Apr 121 min read
The Vision Returns, a Poem by David Dephy
The clouds above you form as the moon rises, you try to give them a sense of purpose, you know that the messenger with the bad news won’t...
Contributor
Apr 55 min read
Moria, a Short Story by Caroline Siebbeles
My home in Syria, loud bangs I hear, my hands on my ears, mama say bombs fall from the sky, she grab me down the stairs like she is the wind
Contributor
Mar 151 min read
Refugees, a Poem by Craig Kirchner
And in the undisturbed
brick and limestone,
everything quietly waiting for
the nocturnal, the gutters to run clear,
Contributor
Jan 261 min read
Hallowed Ground, a Poem by Pat Anthony
Today a smoky haze hangs over the trees drapes the fields Wildfires from Canada dropping down on the wind and I think again of Maui...
Contributor
Jan 124 min read
ReciproCity, Non-fiction by Angela Townsend
I tell myself that compassion is my calling, and God will gather my fallen stories. He has given me a mother and friends who care about...
Contributor
Jan 58 min read
Whys and Wherefores, a Short Story by William Cass
Luis had been a patient of mine for less than a year. He’d been referred to me by his primary care physician on the south side of San...
Contributor
Oct 13, 20231 min read
Your Own Heart, a Poem by Peter Kaczmarczyk
I grew up thinking My suburban life Filled with liberal minds And high-minded rhetoric Had taught me all I needed to know But you cannot...
Contributor
Oct 6, 20232 min read
After Coming Out of the Cocoon, a Poem by Sofiul Azam
if I started, “Once upon a time, not so long ago, lived a man with a habit of regretting his mistakes and making more in the process,”...
Contributor
Oct 4, 20231 min read
Since I Saw the Ocean, a Poem by Sarah-Kate Simons*
they ask me if i still think of death, i say i always have a shadow, like shafts of rain falling in sunlight. i don’t need monsters and...
Contributor
Oct 4, 20231 min read
At the Professor’s Table, a Poem by Sarah-Kate Simons*
we are asleep inside ourselves. we know you when the dawn sneaks in on a sleeping forest and catches her unawares; we struggle to find...
Contributor
Oct 4, 20231 min read
In Pursuit of the Things that Don’t Demand my Demise, a Poem by Chisom Charles Nnanna*
I’m not ungrateful to the days the sun was darker than the gathering of a thousand nights, and the nights the moon was as timid as a...
Contributor
Oct 4, 20232 min read
As Fate Uncuffs Another Dawn, a Poem by Chisom Charles Nnanna*
"Listen to me. There will be a day when the world will need you most — be alive on that day." - Michael Wasson. I don’t disagree that...
Contributor
Oct 4, 20231 min read
Scars, a Poem by Chris White*
cut from events and ensuing wounds, body helpless, intently attuned. fragile afflictions, tender and bruised, crouch and hide, any...
bottom of page