White Flower Oil
By Wisteria Deng — I walk into the room and there he is, half-buried in ancient books and business letters, one of his tails hanging down from the step stool,
6 days ago
Mother’s Log
By Genevieve S. Aguinaldo — The moment I wake up, I allow myself a silent prayer. Before I dive myself into chaos: Children refusing to chew, ants caressing
Mar 14
I Call Him Pain
By Scott Frink — Self-healing might mend it someday, somehow. But for now, it stays that way as the mind drifts, like when sunny skies fade to gray.
Sep 12, 2025
Sleepless Nights in the Tropics
By Evrard Klein — Tomorrow, as a joke, I'll tell a flowery version of this sleepless night, a pretty tale with no mosquitoes, a tale that will conceal the tears I shed to
Aug 29, 2025
impatience
By Mari M. Bianco — You pull up to the same "safe" place where you became impatient. No, it's inpatient. 30 years ago. Same gray day. Same damp drizzle.
Jul 2, 2025
Burying My Dead Eye
By Dr. Ivy George — It is high noon, and the South Indian sun is relentless. The morning paper, “The Hindu” has announced that the mercury will hold
May 11, 2025
I have forgotten what touch is.
By Cerid Jones — I've forgotten what touch is. Lost in the long strides between reaching for things I'm never sure I've ever held.
Jan 5, 2025
Beautiful Small Things
By Dr. Balesh Jindal — Frayed and fretting, chafed and chiipped, gnawed over, till agony smirked all over. Spreadeagled, I lay soaked in
Dec 27, 2024
an hour in disguise
By Kenneth Kesner — It could remind you of other times when a door quiet as gray, unhinged at its side, about to be stripped and planed in a
Dec 10, 2024
Robin and Eagle
By Jan Wiezorek — On a rooftop, an American robin, state bird of Michigan, commands his post, ordering elements, causing worms to hang and
Nov 21, 2024
All of a sudden
By Michelle Gubbay — No one noticed Lenny, but then all of a sudden Lenny began to play the piano. I had no idea that he could play. He was
Oct 17, 2024
A Mother and Daughter
By Gaurav Ojha — Mother, when your dreams begin to crumble before the eyes, feel the sunshine you have been hiding to protect your daughter
Sep 20, 2024
Last year’s planner pages
By Sharon Pajka — Insurance will not cover rehab. They will not cover the ER. They will not cover transportation to memory care. I call a
Aug 28, 2024
Weather Poem
By Jeremiah K Durick — This is not the climate we were born into. It’s the climate we brought on ourselves. They even warned us, but we
Jul 8, 2024
Passions
By N.T. Chambers — He knew her before she was born, in a way that drowning men know the sea - flailing without hope, surrendering without
Jun 27, 2024
Target Range
By Holly Day — She held the gun in her hand and imagined she was the prostitute she’d read about in the newspaper, knew that if she was that
Jun 17, 2024
No One Noticed The Noise
By Lynn White — She lay there still, quiet in her flesh, and her covering of skin though her heart was drumming loudly and in her head she
Jun 1, 2024
Shuffling to Fortune in Bombay
By Tim Campbell — Pilgrims shuffle in quiet grace, like a sentence of hope a thousand syllables long. They trek on a causeway over the
May 26, 2024
Alien in My Backyard
By Johanna Haas — It was not long ago when lawns were covered with clover instead of grass. It’s not that long ago when towns were covered.
May 5, 2024
Breaking The Hard Way
By Christina M. Rau — When the hammer misses the nail it hits the wood and all bodies become golddust drifting. The automatic garage door
Apr 15, 2024