By: Ian C Smith At fourteen, wearing my work overalls, so looking older, I breast the bar’s murmuring buzz after pushing through the sesame door. Payday, air blue with cigarette smoke, a […]
Bar Behaviour 101
Opting In
By: Emma Bennison The ship’s horn blasted long and loud as the majestic Pacific Jewel picked up speed. The sun glinted brilliantly off the clear waters of Sydney Harbour. Jason heaved a […]
‘Citizen’ and other poems by Wilson Taylor
By: Wilson Taylor Citizen There is a city in the treesand a genius in the flowers, stamenswhispering to bees. A squirrel’s call,the undulating flight of a finch, the divotin the grass; I […]
The Bread
By: Alan Berger Know what it was that inspired his decision? It was when he saw that Donald Trump Jr. grew one and even though he looked liked a mad dog foaming […]
Dinner with Daddy
By: Anna Villegas Fawn follows Tammy into the women’s restroom as soon as the hostess shows them to their table. Taking Daddy out to dinner for Father’s Day was the last-minute Saturday […]
The Baggy
By: Mike Sharlow The house on 27th Street was nicknamed “The Baggy” which was ironically appropriate. Large areas of the asphalt siding were gone, compromised with age and torn off from wind. […]
Fury is my name
By Russell Waterman “Sterling, dearie, nobody likes a grumpy wumpy. Here, let’s turn that frown upside down,” his mother leered as she stretched his lips into a deformed jokers smile. In a […]
Roots
By: Erin Weber Boss Ron had roots in the community. He was grown from the rocky North Carolina dirt and nourished by its streams and lakes. Like everyone, he had dreams about […]
Footprints in the sand
By: Bobby Z The Jyd Conspicuous moments—like footprints in the sand.leave you void of emotions—unresponsive to any commands. evaporating memories—disappear like hidden treasures.complicate your desires—to search for forbidden pleasures. wounded dreams—that fail […]
Late Night
By: William Masters The Da Vinci Café, a San Francisco landmark, stood at the corner of Broadway and Stockton Streets for thirty-nine years. Its door-sized front windows overlooked both Chinatown and North […]
