THE NEVERBORNS
By Jen OConnor — Should we beg for their forgiveness? For taking away their Right to Life? Harsh laws will punish us now for that. But the
Feb 5, 2023
Love is starting to feel like a privilege
By Mia Maisha — We dream of being the first ones in our families to keep a partner. Love is starting to feel like the bench our ancestors
Feb 2, 2023
Salix Babylonica
By Carl Scharwath — The book in my hand felt comfortable and familiar as the journey to my reading sanctuary awaited. The willow tree was an
Jan 29, 2023
Good Girl, Olive
By Vibha Akkaraju — “Good girl,” I coo to Olive in that tone that Maya, my first born, finds unbearably saccharine. But it's not saccharine
Jan 26, 2023
Sullen Joys
By Glenn Marchand — By twinges in twilight, suffused, bewildered, and aloof from pegs; rocket wings, severed from emotion, unable to grasp
Jan 23, 2023
Shadow Docket
By Mark Blickley — No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Jan 21, 2023
Erratic Orbit
By Gary Beck — The sun rises late,
sets earlier, but some of us hardly notice, bound to city cycles, wake, rise, hygiene, rush to work on
Jan 15, 2023
The Only Time the World is Perfect
By Nolcha Fox — In miniature the world
is perfect, once a year at Christmas time. The train runs round the Christmas tree, never going off
Jan 12, 2023
On reaching old age
By Colin Ian Jeffery — Time is fleeting in its passing and does jolt the memory,
recalling images of long ago when life seemed to stretch
Jan 9, 2023
My TONGUE IS ALL I HAVE GOT
By Oteeyho Iro — I did not know
it's hellish to live on the other end of the gun, always on the target board,
that surviving is another
Jan 6, 2023
The broken soul in my homeland
By Pawel Markiewicz — When I first read about a wartime-labor-camp in Bielsk Podlaski on the Internet, it was an autumn day a few weeks ago.
Jan 2, 2023
Northern Cruise
By Jeremiah K Durick — There must be something here worth the effort. The time spent. The foghorn goes off every two minutes reminding us
Dec 30, 2022
Bee–stingly sister
By Oksana Mauricio — I turned into the bee version, desiring to sting her for interrupting, my Niece and I's conversation. She was not
Dec 28, 2022
THE TRIATHLON
By Judith Morgan Gray — I am standing knee deep in the open water of Lake Washington in a roped off area close to the shore. It is 6:30 am
Dec 24, 2022
The Inner Critic Returns from the Dead
By David J. Bookbinder — Foolish boy, foolish boy, foolish boy, why do you torment yourself with ambition when you know as I have always
Dec 22, 2022
Definition of Romantic Love
By Dorothy Dorcine — The intimacy of hearing your voice in the dim lighting of my bedroom. My arms tangled around my pillowcase—I took my
Dec 20, 2022
They won't hear you
By Daun M. Wright — A life is in turmoil, cries for help in the deafening silence of the ignorance of others, in the avoidance of those in
Dec 17, 2022
Deep in the Unmowed Paddock
Kyla St Jaye — My body feels like an episode of hoarders. I’m always hungry. Stacked with debris and loading. Each scrap, bottle top and
Dec 14, 2022
Rebars
By Martin Schwarz — A vortex descends on me of shrapnel and hopelessness. Yet a hunger in my spine hauls me from the afterlife. Born in hail
Dec 12, 2022