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Month: May 2017

The Sun Rising After You

By: James Diaz there was the time before i knew the shape that my life would take the time before i first held something sharp against my wrist that could split the skin separate my spirit from my body the time…

Clear as the Night Bearing Down

By: James Diaz I’d drive you to the coast but there’s ice in a bone I keep shadowed at night the floor creaks like the first chair moved awkwardly across the gymnasium floor of your first gathering of drunks I want…

Seven Haiku by Denny E. Marshall

By: Denny E. Marshall on DNA strands climbing the spiral ladder yet so far to go water from fountain after brief exploration parachutes back home his parents have some serious burns mostly college degree when Edgar Allen as child playing tag…

Story: Bryan with a Y

By: Samuel Cole Riding high on cardio endorphins, I spot Bryan with a Y standing tall at the top of the stairs, sporting the crimson-colored basketball shorts and the gray All For One t-shirt I bought for him during a…

Poem: I pray for the end of pain

By: Linda M Crate slain of their innocence the children stand in the blood of memories not their own crowned orphans by the hatred of men who have never met them but do not want their existence they are the…

Poem: Not a weakness

By: Linda M Crate stop staring a picture would last longer, but don’t expect me to pose; your entire existence annoys me when you feel the necessity to be rude i try not to be cruel sometimes my tongue is…