By: Jaela Manuel The car swerved off into a bumpy road and took an abrupt stop. Abigail heard the door open and slam. Click. Clack. Emma was inching toward the back seat […]
Taking Everything
‘Boys’ and other poems by Abigail Kipp
By: Abigail Kipp Boys Loneliness is a worm gnawing at my gut, so I cling to boys who don’t care (flowers promised but never given). It wiggles its way through me so […]
Lending a Helping Paw
By: Jaide Lin The Kingdom of Felines was alive with whispered rumors of a three-legged dog that arrived at the gate of the fortress, bearing the royal seal. Peering over the parapets, […]
Poem: Honeymoon Dirge
By: Edmund Weisberg Unsettling. Unfathomable. Shocking. Surreal. To be sitting there eating As the bridegroom lay dying. Of course, we had no clue at the time. There had been an accident, we […]
Poem: Is that the answer?
By: Liza Jessica Marie What do you do when the answer doesn’t make any sense? When A doesn’t equal B and the answer is Z? Does it makes sense to everybody but, […]
Correct Mistake
By Eric Burbridge Maxwell Lowe, a murdering short-tempered muscular MMA champion of Penal Colony Alpha twenty miles off the coast of Chicago was admitted to minimum security for minor surgery. His stretcher […]
Poem: Tell the story
By: J. Sheeba Tell the story, The storms and the whirls, Keep repeating twirls and twirls. Along life’s rugged roads, Tempest and thunder, But I tread, still I wonder! The river of […]
‘Working Out at the Y’ and other poems by E. Martin Pedersen
By: E. Martin Pedersen What is Happiness? I see two old people walk Our height and weight What is happiness? Will the radical ideas Of youth at least Provide comic relief If […]
Denizens
By: Tony G. Rocco Oscar had been in the museum most of the day, roaming its marbled floors of paintings, installations and sculptures, when hunger and thirst drove him into Denizens. The […]
Poem: Once
By: Cynthia Pitman Not too long ago, the backyard had an old orange tree. Too tall and very spindly,it one day split a dry crack down its trunk, sealing its fate. After […]
