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 4, 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 1, 2025
Towards a Greater Understanding
By Mark Wolters — How could I tell these people what was on my mind without them thinking I was mad? Why should it matter if they believed I was mad anyway? The first act of free will is
Jun 28, 2025
Painkillers
By Tamizh Ponni, VP — A spoonful of honey and a glass of water follows the single gulp of Cyclopam. To put a gag on the gag. "Another month off the life chart."
Jun 24, 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 21, 2025
Everyone Has Covid
By Suzanne D. Miller — Everyone has Covid. Hyperbole but true. Everyone has Covid. I'm boosted. Hey, are you? Everyone has Covid. Yet restaurants still
Jun 18, 2025
Slow Dance with the Light
By Danny P. Barbare — Work to a shine. No fuss about it. Direct and grime. Square as a tile. Proper, gentle and kind with a shout out loud. Proud with a smile
Jun 15, 2025
Paul Klee’s Rising Star
By John Brantingham — Klee has drawn the elements of a man’s face, eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, and he includes what rises inside him, a star that would clarify to others
Jun 12, 2025
the convict child
By Yuna Kang — Before the "curiosity" of fools, before the schooling of fish, before the rose grew thorns. Maybe she wasn't a convict? Maybe she wasn't stupid?
Jun 9, 2025
Nothing Left to Lose
Celia Jeffries — Rose Kennedy’s coffin was being transported up Route 3 from the Cape, followed by a couple of buses full of the Kennedy family. It was a cold day
Jun 6, 2025
Hospital Delirium
By David Obuchowski — The patient’s name is David. He’s a 45-year-old male. On December 2nd, he had a small bowel resection as well as a, and here they always
May 31, 2025
We Don't Talk About the Pandemic Anymore
By Chuck Rybak — They ebbed. We helped them. We fed the belly beef. Be well. They ebbed. The MD meted the med medly. ML, MG. Yet the temp fell
May 27, 2025
New Home
By Jan Wiezorek — Trailer, give me my new home, cuddly, as a furry animal crawling, digging itself out of a wall, animated as cockroaches. The impact of
May 24, 2025
If Peace Was A Dancer
By M. L. Lyons — Peace loves the dulcet tones and only sidesteps the goose footed, the overly rigid, but laughs with the flat-footed, the eager, the shy who
May 20, 2025
Elf and George K.O. Chaney
By Craig Kirchner — I get a phone call from The Baltimore Sun informing me of my grandfather’s posthumous induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
May 17, 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 14, 2025
Can I be more than this or that?
By James Gering — After three score years, my identity ought to be statue solid, much on show, to show, mantle-piece piled high with accomplishments,
May 12, 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 10, 2025
Museum Relic
By Duane Anderson — My portrait may not be found in any art gallery, but instead, a picture of me can be found in a dark tavern, my nose located in the center
May 7, 2025