O Survivor!
By M. Fatima — O Survivor! I hear you!
Tell me your story, loud and clear, I hear you! I hear your screams, I hear them loud. I hear your
Apr 11, 2021
Ask Me About My Narcoleptic Daydreams
By Reyna N. Vasquez Bisono — My narcolepsy makes me crave sleep, but the world makes me embrace it. Why face your problems, when you can
Apr 5, 2021
My Dreams
By Anita Nahal — No one noticed
that the warm whiff of deep green mint sauce in roasted brick red potatoes speckled with a generous
Mar 30, 2021
Vietnam Memories
By John L. Swainston — We learned it was to late to say: "Hell no I won't go!" We had learned to shoot straight. We found our need to sin,
Mar 29, 2021
Turn the Corner
By Marjorie Moorhead — Goodbye 2020. I’ve eaten my fill of snickerdoodles, gingerbread, chocolate chip cookies, yeast bread ladened with
Mar 26, 2021
A Recovering Apologist
By Liz Clark — I’ve always apologized even if the issue hadn’t been my fault. Last year—I stopped apologizing. I stopped hanging my head in
Mar 15, 2021
Paths
By Robert Tosi — No one noticed that the lights were on. No one noticed that the plumbing worked, the supermarket was stocked, the church
Mar 11, 2021
Another Lockdown
By Richard LeDue — My window is dirty:
tiny smudges that tried to get in are gone to bug heaven, where the insect god is the size of my
Mar 3, 2021
Making Ourselves Better
By Rose H. Wharton — Because our whole reality is energy-based, when one person starts to shift their inner-self for the better, everyone
Feb 28, 2021
Movie Screen
By Sarah Bellum Mental — The kids ask me why is it, we always die first in the movies? I get to stay until the end
of the movie. The end
Feb 25, 2021
Notes from an Agnostic
By Susan Hand — god: I’m going to strip you of your capital letters, if that’s ok with you. If only god would reveal himself, in the flash
Feb 22, 2021
I am a Woman Worried
By Barbara Simmons — I am a grandmother who may not see my granddaughter until 2022. I worry that she may not remember me, she only four
Feb 16, 2021
Birthday Eight
By J Snow — No presents, no birthday cake, no streamers or balloons, I push scraps of last night's boiled chicken dinner around in my bowl—
Feb 13, 2021
Let's Start Here
By Thomas Elson — He saw his daughter decades later, when she - now a grandmother was asked the same question and emerged as the woman who
Feb 11, 2021
Tick-Tock Clocks
By Áine Greaney — The clock on my kitchen wall is starting to drive me mad. Oh, I’ve had tick-tock clocks before. In kitchens and bedrooms;
Feb 9, 2021
