She looks good on paper: Devoid of blemishes, Kind eyes, quiet smile. More of a memory than anything – A boiled down version of herself.…
Posts published in “Literary”
Where Monsters Live
By ZADIE WANG on January 2025
The small chirps of a child whispering my name shook me awake.It was my daughter, stuffed animal in one hand and clutching my arm with…
Meditation
By LUCA WOLL on January 2025
The mud and the sludge will run their course, Coursing through the shallow shores. The rising tides will strike with force On burning Earth the…
Doom
By MATTHEW JONES on January 2025
The mud and the sludge will run their course, Coursing through the shallow shores. The rising tides will strike with force On burning Earth the…
A Light
By CAMDEN GOELLER on January 2025
I have a light on my bedside table. And when it burns out I replace it. Because I don’t want you to come home. Thinking…
The Art of Rain on a Window
By ZACHARY LINDENBERG on January 2025
The first notes fall soft, tentative like a pianist testing the keys of twilight whispers of hope peeking out beneath the heavy blanket of silence…
1: “One step, two step, three step, four —” 2: “On with your shoes and out the door!” 1: “That’s not how it goes!” 2:…
Untitled
By KATE THOMAS on January 2025
It’s a four-hour drive from the city to my hometown. The last late summer light slipped away hours ago, and all that is left are…
The Clocktower
By LEO ELLIOT on January 2025
By Leo Elliott At ten o’clock the bell rings loud, and the people in the town all prepare to go to sleep. The doors shut,…
Mathematic Puzzling
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on January 2025
Caedmon When one equals a, and two equals b, Its no wonder that c equals three. And when d equals four, So on it until…
What I Know
By TENZIN MONDAK on January 2025
Roots trace deep underground Within and all around To be seen is to be heard Which is to be inferred I was asked of what…
Crystalline
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on January 2025
Through our story of my fate, The bright sun never shined. From the last journey we made Formed this tale, crystalline. We trod steadily –…
Watching the building of warships in Maine
By MIRIAM DEGEORGE on January 2025
Creatures of steel have no words, no mouths – just guns. They have lights in place of eyes, and no men yet aboard. They do…
The Entrepreneur of Stickers
By JENNIFER CARVER on January 2025
Mom, I learned to sell things (like you do) in comic cons. But instead of bags and patches, it’s very colorful yet expandable stickers. One…
The Branch
By LUCY PARK-HOOKWAY on January 2025
Chickadee sat on his branch, the same way that he has since last year. Last year, the spring that he left home, flying away in…
Why you Shouldn’t go to Concerts
By GLORIANA ALLNATT on January 2025
Am I going to lose my leg?” I thought as I looked in terror. I couldn’t believe this was happening. My legwas wedged between the…
Night Town
By SARAH PALMER-JACKSON on January 2025
It was 12am when the bells rang A dark and heavy sound reverberated through the small town Night town Night town was always dark and…
The Red Room
By ACE DUFRESNE on January 2025
The door stands ajar: an open invitation, or, perhaps, a threat. I breathe in, filling my lungs with chalky, chokedair. Untouched for six years now,…
A poem in the perspective of Apollo
By LEX WARD on January 2025
Why Why does every lover I touch turn to gold Every single one with the damn sword of Damocles taunting my every action For once…
Night Town
By SARAH PALMER-JACKSON on December 2024
It was 12am when the bells rang A dark and heavy sound reverberated through the small town Night town Night town was always dark and…
funerals for birds
By ZADIE WANG on December 2024
as she notices its corpse i realize this is the first being she will ever mourn. i watch her eyes sink as she bends down…
Untitled
By QURSUM QURSUM on December 2024
From the hill the sunset could be seen Realizes the woods gave some blisters to the keen The golden hour couldn’t have filled her more…
Unlovable
By JOYCE SPEARS on December 2024
The idea of someone Who loves that i’m someone Is a concept I can’t seem to grasp An attraction to me? Or what I seem…
The Search
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on December 2024
Would I run for the waters if I could not breathe the air. Would you claw for the key to break you out of jail.…
Enduring Climb
By CORALLUS MEEKS on December 2024
The enduring climb is a fight to the death With ascendance comes loss of breath, billowing flames in the gullet of the mountain Yet with…
Leviathan
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on December 2024
O, spread your arms like the plague – let me fallPulled down into your tentacle embraceI delve in – diluted: your ocean’s sprawlCold water soaks…
Untitled
By JULIA KLEINBERG on December 2024
When they marched the prisoners in, they told them to dance. No one did. They stood still as stone, too weak to move a muscle,…