By: Denny E. Marshall after incident the three bears change locks goldilocks meets up with little red riding hood three bears surprise wolf jack’s magic beanstalk only climb up short distance harvest giant beans realize bad kisser that day riding in…
By: Denny E. Marshall after countless years in deep underground shelter open steel hatch door airless as much of shock as sight of asteroid surface spend year’s underground finally the day arrives open hatch with caution step on surface, air is…
By: Gentle Culpepper Rotting flesh on a stick The cool winds flow from the valleys of the dead. The foul souls surfing nervous seas stuffed with hate caress fat cheeks of the chunky man riding the devil’s wheels. The morning air…
By: Suneet Paul The setting is of a spacious furnished room with two beds placed at right angles to each other. There is a twin seater and a comfortable chair with a coffee table on the side at one corner of…
By: James Croal Jackson I can tell you how many points LeBron scored last night or who won the World Series, but I can’t fix the leaking faucet in the bathroom, won’t mow the lawn if not overgrown. I don’t change…
By: James Croal Jackson Between floors I meet calm– meditation when firefighters arrive. Frank O’Hara might be proud though there were no red lights streaming in how one can wedge one’s own ideology in a wavering tower halfway to clouds but…
By: Christopher S. Bell I got jealous today, but it didn’t feel normal. She was maybe sixteen and didn’t know much about anything. I still found myself trying to sound cool, though, like this girl could whisk me away. I’d tell…
By: Balu George When you read in the papers, About a successful young entrepreneur, 5 or 10 years younger than you, Do you feel irritated and sad? Now let me ask you something. Do you enjoy eating a Masala dosa?…
By: Balu George If somebody boasts, let her be. If somebody does not boast, let her also be. If somebody eats chicken by the reasoning that they can’t fly, let her be. If somebody thinks it shows a lack of empathy…
By: Linda M Crate i am passionate and intense, but also vulnerable; people have always tried to exploit my kindness as if it were a weakness— but i am no fool i can see through their masks even if i…