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Brief Reflection, Alison Erves Apr 2021

Brief Reflection, Alison Erves

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Boys Are Like Books, Katherine Peterson Apr 2021

Boys Are Like Books, Katherine Peterson

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America The Free, Marijke Pieters-Kwiers Apr 2021

America The Free, Marijke Pieters-Kwiers

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Stubborn Love, Jesse Holliday Apr 2021

Stubborn Love, Jesse Holliday

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A Bit Odd, Alison Erves Apr 2021

A Bit Odd, Alison Erves

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Trying To Fix It, Alisha Ragon Apr 2021

Trying To Fix It, Alisha Ragon

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She was trying to fix it.

She walked in with purpose, and nerves on fire.

As hard as she tried to hold up her badass countenance, they could still tell she was tired. She walked with swagger, put distance between her steps. This convenience store’s law of awkward nondisclosure was helpful in self-defense. As messed up as she had become, there were still people here much more fucked than her. She said hello to the man at the counter, with lowered eyes. She avoided other consumers with grace; she simply stepped down the wrong aisle.


In The Beginning, Jeffrey Wincek Apr 2021

In The Beginning, Jeffrey Wincek

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In the beginning there was the Computer and the Screen, and the Computer was inert and void and darkness was over the face of the Screen. And the Author’s finger pressed the Power Button and the Computer Booted Up and there was Light on the face of the Screen. And the Author saw it was good.


Gil And Ki In Couples Therapy, Jeffrey Wincek Apr 2021

Gil And Ki In Couples Therapy, Jeffrey Wincek

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The office is tidy and uncluttered; tasteful and well lighted. The decor is mid-century modern with an occasional treasure from antiquity featured here and there: tiny bronze and terra cotta Nabatean oil lamps, Sumerian fetishes, facsimiles of baked clay tablets bearing cuneiform script. Other objects de vertu rest on rosewood bases or under glass on the desk and in bookcases. Except for a glorious Persian rug, ruby, topaz, lapis and carnelian in hue, the color scheme is muted and neutral. Dr. Esther Aalyah sits at her desk. She has a manila folder in front of her. There are colored tags …


F People Were Seasons, Yvonne Bamba Apr 2021

F People Were Seasons, Yvonne Bamba

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He and I are sitting in the middle of my staircase, squished together on the same step, our limbs overflowing and dangling off the edges. We have our respective beverages in hand—his beer and my glass of red wine—facing each other with our legs bent, contently intertwined. We already touched base on our weapons of choice for the zombie apocalypse, the sports and instruments and dreams we gave up on in high school, and whether our day was more like The Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face or Fetty Wap’s Trap Queen. Now, we’re brainstorming names for the future Alaskan husky …


A Story For Alex, Or For Me, Alisha Ragon Apr 2021

A Story For Alex, Or For Me, Alisha Ragon

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It was the whoring hour.

Ready the sheets and the lingerie.

Ready the moans and the delicious delights to be discovered.

Ready the bodies wanting and hungry.

Ready the minds, sore for distraction, aching for bliss.

Slowly the sliding of cloth, flesh venturing out into the open air

Hands gliding over the landscape of his torso; breath breaking from composure to ecstasy A landscape not her own. Breath not meant to be broken.

Rein it in.


The Clinic, Bri Wilson Apr 2021

The Clinic, Bri Wilson

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“What are you here for?”

Jeanette glanced up from her clasped hands. The questioner - a middle aged woman wearing a kitten sweater - stared at her expectantly.

Jeanette spun the ring around her fourth finger. “To forget,” she muttered. She should have taken it off.


The Shattering, Bri Wilson Apr 2021

The Shattering, Bri Wilson

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I’m dead. But I’m still here. My soul got left behind. I didn’t believe in souls but now I have to and

I don’t remember when I was last alive. My memories have been blurred, shaken, chopped. I can’t recall how it ended, there was a lot of pain, then it stopped. Suddenly.

(how did I die.)


Kia Ora, Devan Y. Klein Mar 2021

Kia Ora, Devan Y. Klein

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Steel Ties Do Bind, Misa Rasmussen Mar 2021

Steel Ties Do Bind, Misa Rasmussen

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Once Upon A Nightmare, Brittany Lyons Mar 2021

Once Upon A Nightmare, Brittany Lyons

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I Sit Comfortably In My Hammock, Misa Rasmussen Mar 2021

I Sit Comfortably In My Hammock, Misa Rasmussen

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Women Are People Too, Marijke Pieters-Kwiers Mar 2021

Women Are People Too, Marijke Pieters-Kwiers

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Look Up, Aaron Ruth Mar 2021

Look Up, Aaron Ruth

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Horizons, Kylie Walsh Mar 2021

Horizons, Kylie Walsh

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Fruits Of Our Labor, Diallo C. Weeks Mar 2021

Fruits Of Our Labor, Diallo C. Weeks

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Emma Grace, Anonymous Anonymous Mar 2021

Emma Grace, Anonymous Anonymous

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Cloistered, Kylie Walsh Mar 2021

Cloistered, Kylie Walsh

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Ashes To Ashes, Yvonne Bamba Mar 2021

Ashes To Ashes, Yvonne Bamba

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Marilyn's Friend, Nancy's Kaddish, The Dispossessed, Valerie Silver Mar 2021

Marilyn's Friend, Nancy's Kaddish, The Dispossessed, Valerie Silver

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My friend Marilyn has a girlfriend, Roaslind, who converses regularly with her late mother, but only while driving alone in the car. The chats are usually brief, slid in-between runs to the bank or the grocery store. Rosalind checks in with her mom about her day just as she always had, updates her on the latest goings-ons, asks for guidance when she needs it. Often, she gets answers. What is most remarkable to me about these conversations is how routine they have become in Rosalind’s life. She has found a way to accommodate the loss of her mother while continuing …


Monologue, Carina Romano Mar 2021

Monologue, Carina Romano

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I had to leave 'em, man.

It was s'posed to be a onetime thing-- one deal and it's done. We just needed a little extra cash, man, but it went so wrong. She had a gun man! A gun! She couldn't pay-- we told her to hit the road, but she wouldn't go, dammit, she fucking--


Kiss Me, Aiyana Ross-Beck Mar 2021

Kiss Me, Aiyana Ross-Beck

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It was the last weekend of the year and this party was in full flow. Beer pong, quarters and stupid card games were all going on in the different rooms of the house. Maia was alone wandering through the party until she see saw a girl dancing the middle of the floor. She was brunette, tall, and obviously drunk. She was dancing by herself to a Zedd song. Shaking her hips to the beat and to constant crowd encouragement. As Maia stood watching the girl she became memorized. The girl looked in her direction flashing beautiful green eyes and a …


I Cannot Make This Story Come Out Right, Kevin Coates Mar 2021

I Cannot Make This Story Come Out Right, Kevin Coates

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I cannot make this story come out right. I walked in and he was dead. Dead is dead. Nothing I said or did at that moment could change a single thing. I could wish it; I could regret it. But I could not change it. He was dead on the floor, looking like he was uncomfortably asleep, stiff. He did not have on his favorite shirt. There was a small spaghetti stain under his left pocket, and I knew he probably hadn’t even seen it. How distressed he would have been to die with a spaghetti stain on his shirt.


Drink And The Devil, Richard Clark Mar 2021

Drink And The Devil, Richard Clark

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When he was twenty-eight-year-old the man began to have a recurring nightmare. He was on the London Underground with his wife, a little before Christmas. Lunch at Simpsons on the Strand had been followed by shopping at Harrods and Selfridges. They carried big bags of gifts and tasteless tidbits wrapped in cellophane and colored ribbon. They were happy, not a care in the world. As the train trundled along the tunnel beneath the Thames, the wife said she could hear the sound of rushing water. “Don’t worry,” the man told her, “the train is watertight.” They sat quietly but the …


Book Review: Changing Harm To Harmony, David A. Seter Mar 2021

Book Review: Changing Harm To Harmony, David A. Seter

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This reviewer met up with Joseph Zaccardi, editor of a new collection on the subject of bullies and bystanders, at one of his hangouts in Marin County—Aroma Café—to discuss the collection. At the time of our conversation Joseph was nearing the end of his two year term as Marin County’s Poet Laureate. His own published works include: Vents (Pancake Press, 2005); Render (Poetic Matrix Press, 2009); and The Nine Gradations of Light (Bark for Me Publications, 2013).

-article excerpt-


I Know, Liza Kroeschell Mar 2021

I Know, Liza Kroeschell

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