By: Thomas Sanfilip Some time ago I visited the ruins of the ancient Greek city, Selinous, destroyed by the Carthaginians in a ten-day siege that left 16,000 dead, the city in flames, and a handful of survivors who managed to…

By: Debleena Majumdar The crumpled sheet of paper, Grease stains from yesterday’s Stale chop that been thrown at her, Was her treasure. Wolfing down the hard lump, she Had peered greedily at the paper. Unmindful of the darkness, If only…

By: Linda M Crate all you do is irritate me you are toxic to my health and my happiness so i’ve walked away our friendship was never much years of paltry things i always gave and you always took always…

By: Linda M Crate how many times must i say no before you realize i’ll never say yes? how many times must i say i don’t like you before it clicks? leave me alone i have no interest in dead…

By: Clive Aaron Gill Martha steered her pickup truck down the steep road from Valley Center towards the Escondido High School bus yard. Dawn spread its pink-rose rays over morning clouds, softening the San Diego mountain peaks. She hunched her…

By: Tempest Brew  we are small beings in a small universe pretending to be large we are the voice of reason that is stifled because we are mute and do not realize it until much too late.

By: William T. Hathaway JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming, USA — The wolves have been reprieved. A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court decision requiring that all transplanted wolves be removed from the Rocky Mountains. Unless the Supreme Court reverses…

By Pijush Kanti Deb Dance on chance- the great popular hymn to attack on and conquer a stage to rule on but to me- a chance appeared one night in my bedroom in disguise of a heaven-touching skyscraper but surprisingly…

By: Pijush Kanti Deb The over ambitious steps may touch the honor of the moon and the raising head may feel the cool breeze of Heaven revealing the climax of the mad race between man and the God in extending…

By: Pijush Kanti Deb It’s only the God who painted the most beautiful painting portraying the sacred close-up of blissful husband and wife yet on it my father found a spot- black and traditional, hiding a pathetic story of a…