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Year: 2020

City Beneath the Sea

By Mark Kodama I. The Launch             It was part of a scientific experiment gone awry, a top secret government program to prove that human beings could travel into the future at the speed of light. It was only to…

A Very Famous Breakfast

By Sasheera Mehrani Gounden A countless number of studies have proven that consuming a healthy breakfast daily enhances concentration levels and boosts metabolism. Strawberries, blueberries, bananas and a glass of freshly squeezed apple or orange juice are healthy breakfast alternatives….

Little Secret

By Ramprasath Rengasamy     I was in a hurry. I double-checked if I have taken the NY pizza that I bought in New York, an hour ago. While running, in my mind, over the things that I might have forgotten…

Safe and Un-sound

By: Alan Berger It was not a blind date. It was a deaf date. I’ve always had a problem telling people, not my pets, people, how I truly feel. There was no getting anything off my chest unless my mouth…

The Tree of Knowledge

By: Alexander Kemp June 2014                 We landed on Earth just after sunset. My two comrades and I adjusted to our new human forms. Our life forces were now tied to these fallible bodies. This was the last opportunity to…

To Sleep

By: A. Elizabeth Herting Once upon a time, I used to sleep. Dull sunlight trickled into his cell. It was painful; a single yellow beam straining to be seen through a tiny, grime-encrusted window. The shadows of the bars crept…

Semper Scriptor Novus

By: Atticus Ellis Naughty boy, your verse will do you badUnless you cloak the name that you once hadBehind a crafty pseudonym at once.Heed me, and don’t play the heroic dunce. Every stanza can be fraught with dire risk.You need…

Lockdown

By: Ria Banerjee  The vicious tentacles ofa fatal virusengirdles the world in alethal coil.The world gasps for breath,frantically choking, coughing andspewing out sputumand venom.It is a barricaded battle fieldof the living andthe dead.Or, perhaps of theliving dead.People go back and…