By: Mayumi Yamamoto Domestic animals are counted as a property of their owners.Property!(I need another word; my beloved cat is my family.) Ann Samolyk rescued her neighbor’s dog from drowning in a canal.The dog was saved unharmed, butAnn has been…
By: Roger G. Singer CAPTURED moonlighton the driftof your face pauses to gazethe beauty as your handshields thefountains ablazewithin your eyesfrom a moonjealous ofyour youthfulheart ### BELOW strong gravestone name, date, a story moss and lichencompete for space withered flowers…
By: Andrea Myinga There are no worries,If all you want is your selfEarth peopled with strangersThey first care for themselves. Look around at least to find oneThe sun might fall downLeaving your eyes on streetsCatching none who put anyone first…
By: Leigh-Anne Burley Birth and deathreset clocksbells toll on both. Heady winds thwartsailors and politicians. Paying attention is anessential navigational instrument. Fog and stumblingproduce clarity. There is a broader range of truthin ramblings and doodles. To get perspective,tip over a…
By Nickolas Yoon Bradbury frequently presents a situation in his short stories and follows it to a conclusion that seems inevitable to the reader. The beginning may be fantastic in some way, but it will always be consistent with human…
Intriguing, eye-opening and relevant, House of Anansi Press announces the upcoming book launch for Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail by Mark Abley. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark…
Words that calculatingly drip with murderous intent and threaten, like an FBI Profiler’s accuracy, to knock you right between the teeth.
OpenAI developed ChatGPT, a cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) tool, that has sparked a tsunami of concerns amongst professionals from all walks of industries and backgrounds including writers. A variant of the popular GPT-3 language model, the tool is capable…
By: Paweł Markiewicz ABABACACA You are an enjoyable juniper!You are a pleasurable bush!You are an agreeable poplar!You are a delightful spruce!You are a gratifying cedar!You are an amusing birch!You are a diverting corn!You are a bonny pine!You are a lovely…
By: Suzanne Zipperer Church picnics used to be a big thing when churches were. When we were teens we went every weekend, probably because there wasn’t much else to do and also because they didn’t ask for IDs so we…