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Family Gathering
By Karen Wolf -- I watch for the missing thread woven through the tapestry of your, I parred the first hole… , so I can fill that...
Apr 28, 20241 min read
Air Connections
By Karen Wolf -- My upside-down soul floats through a snow bound field past  barn boards that lean into river’s jettisoned  bargains...
Apr 28, 20241 min read
Aftermath (1987)
By Bruce Gunther -- I wake up booze dizzy in the backseat of my car that straddles yellow lines of a bar parking lot in Freeland. Â I...
Apr 28, 20241 min read
A House And A Home
By John Grey -- A young married couple move into a house. It suddenly becomes a home. But then they break up and the home reverts to...
Apr 28, 20241 min read
Turf
By B. B. Schaikes [Winner: 1st Place] -- I was devoted to the practice of going to Starbucks at 5 a.m. every Sunday morning and sitting...
Apr 27, 20242 min read
The Offering
By Michael B. Schwartz [Winner: 2nd Place] -- Charles made sure he placed his basket on the table the night before. There was no way he...
Apr 27, 20248 min read
ELECTRIC CANDLE
By Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi [Winner: 3rd Place] -- Heart pumping faster than her legs, she feared she might kill her mother, feared her...
Apr 27, 20248 min read
The Color
By Juanita Rey [Winner: 3rd Place] -- When you see me flush my birth control pills down the toilet, then you can be concerned. Â Or if I...
Apr 27, 20241 min read
Off the Wall
By Joshua Tapia
May 13, 20231 min read
Imagination Vacation
By Joshua Tapia
May 13, 20231 min read
Frank: The Director's Cut
By Joshua Tapia
May 13, 20234 min read
Little Light
By Charlotte Miles
May 13, 20231 min read
There’s Always Hope
By Faith Ho Russell
May 8, 20237 min read
Most Unlikely of Friends
By Angelina Martinez
May 8, 202323 min read
The Prince
By Evangelynne Lee
May 8, 20235 min read
Dead Stock
By Camila Castillo
May 8, 202313 min read
Butterfly Rises (and Falls Again)
By Charlotte Miles
May 7, 202315 min read
A Little Too Late
By Cassandra Fonseca
May 7, 20239 min read
1984: The Ending that Should’ve Been
By Daisy Sanchez
May 7, 20239 min read
Your Eyes
By Anthony Salazar
May 7, 20231 min read
Guard Dog’s Fury
By Corey A.D. -- Bulldagger, staring daggers, at the sludge upon the ground. Her lez has their legs covered in it's slurry. The dirt...
Apr 301 min read
The Kookaburra
By Pleco Philodendron -- I hear her when she’s lurking, an anklet And toe rings, and I smell it in her hair— The ring around the toilet...
Apr 302 min read
Pain in Flesh
By Julia Rose Maseda -- His hands hold me like they are the sharpest of knives, Painful. Enduring the pressure I bear with each breath I...
Apr 301 min read
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