like Kafka
Jonathan Jones — If I thought one day, I'd be like Kafka at the end of his life, telling Max Brod to burn every single story he ever wrote, I'd be more
Sep 2, 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
Fallen leaves
By Bhuwan Thapaliya — Leaning against the trunk of an ancient pipal tree, he watched the fallen leaves twirl and dance in the wind. They had already died
Aug 22, 2025
THE EIGHTH MONTH
By John Grey — He is bumping. She is kicking. He/she is going for a spin. The miracles keep on coming. The fascination does not wane. You're
Aug 18, 2025
Gots to Break Through Somehow
By b. plainwilder — Thinking life's a waste of time and effort, just a sham, the mistake I make is not to see or understand. The ego needs deception,
Aug 15, 2025
All the News
By Gary Beck — Before TV news, newspapers were powerful. Radio personalities had a following, but the daily paper informed the pubic. Once TV
Aug 12, 2025
Drawing A Blank
By Lynn White — First I drew a blank, an empty profile, empty as I felt though I knew that I didn't suit emptiness and emptiness didn't suit me and that I
Aug 5, 2025
GRIZZLY BEARS FEEL THE POUNDING
By Joshua Meander — How can I live thirty years when the gross debate of my breeding is disturbing to a species that trims its fur so as to not look
Aug 2, 2025
Tanked Carp in Chinatown
By Doug Holder — I don't want to carp about this but this fish, bluer than bluefish, after all it loves Muddy Waters, floats in the tank. His bubble has burst
Jul 30, 2025
Using the Wrong End of the Stick
By Susan H Evans — From bitter experience, I’ve learned that suffering and endurance — bad as they are — can be used for good, used as stepping
Jul 26, 2025
Plain Speak
By Carl Palmer — I write the way I talk, with a slow, southern drawl. I don't use five dollar words. Simple ones say the same thing. Words with a slew of syllables.
Jul 19, 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
#reality
By Brendan Dawson — How I could get curious about sound bites found among like-button friends hidden in the mega bits in the fringes of the Internet? I feel
Jul 14, 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
Scrolling
By Kimberly Rowe — What happens when I am waiting? It depends on what I am waiting for. I try to get to my son’s school early enough to get a parking spot.
Jul 8, 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
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