My Brain Woke Up
By Karen Beatty — According to Miss Henry, my older brother Billy was one of the brightest and most well-behaved boys in the county. She was, therefore,
Aug 5
Two Spoons of Water
Ramzi Albert Rihani — The serenity in her face hides a life of turbulence, yet it is a sign of a mountain's lucidity waiting for the mysterious to become recognized.
Jul 29
Trilogy of Love
By Lenny Love, Jr. — My love is like that stranger sitting in the park, lonely & self absorbed. My love is like a Bonfire seen from far away. My love is like milk with an
Jul 10
Pot of Gold
By Ed Friedman — I’m told I make an excellent chicken soup. Some people, upon hearing this, reference my Eastern European/Jewish heritage, some genetic
May 28
Love And Friendship
By Lynn White — If there was a beginning to our love that we can define, then it was friendship and the drift into love took us by surprise, started us,
Mar 26
Word Search
By Deborrah Corr — The word couldn’t be found in the house. Maybe it hid between glass jars of peaches on the pantry shelf. Or stuck itself like a wad of
Jan 24
Love has no beginning or end
By Linda M. Crate — Maybe one day I will find my people, the ones who love with a love beyond love. Because my love has always been unconditional and
Dec 14, 2025
A weird superpower
By Elizabeth Walker — To this day, so many years after Trish left, Beth can feel as close to a random motherless stranger as she does to her own brother.
Dec 3, 2025
My love for you is deep…
By Pulkita Anand — My love for you is deep, majestic and passionate. Like an ocean, it’s unfathomable. It is unbounded. The waves of my heart want to hold you. My thoughts are drowned in
Nov 7, 2025
Vietnam Letters
By Karol Nielsen — My father was in ROTC at the University of Nebraska where he was a chemical engineering student. After graduating, he became a
Jul 16, 2025
Wildly Alive
By Lana Hechtman Ayers — My grandmother lived in a tenement. When I enter the graffitied hallway of her building, it reeked of human urine and
Jul 11, 2025
SONG FOR ANDY
By Vicki L W Graff — I hear a voice inside me sayin’ that Andy’s never comin’ home. I fold my hands and sit here prayin' that he's okay. The voice is wrong.
Jul 5, 2025
Reaching old age
By Colin Ian Jeffery — Time fleeting in its passing, spurring memories, recalling images of long ago when life seemed endless, safe from death's stalking
Jun 22, 2025
BRIDGE BETWEEN
By Nina Rubinstein Alonso — The first meet-the-family-dinner was silent and awkward, silverware clicking and clacking, but afterwards Peter’s brother
May 15, 2025
The Colors of Love
By Marc Audet — What is the color of your love? Is it warm pink, like moist lips right before a first kiss? Or is it the hot red you feel when you are about to lose
Apr 21, 2025
Love like winter skies
By Royal W Rhodes — Sometimes the host beckoned inside to warm a moment, a little while, like a poem's brief address and then the door
Mar 21, 2025