You pull up to court in a bright red Maserati. You bought it last weekend, and you were quite proud of it until it got…
Posts published in “Literary”
If she saw me
By LEX WARD on October 2024
I haven’t seen that little girl in years and years Her smile disappeared after the darkness of reality set in She hasn’t come out of…
Rule #1
By JOYCE SPEARS on October 2024
The conservation of energy Is a peaceful state of mind I preserve my epitome Keep it in my line of sight My Motto is my…
Macbeth
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on October 2024
The vile monsters come at night. Werewolves howl at the moon. Flesh contorts. Vampires hunt and stalk, safe from the light. The vile monsters come…
Ode to my Sister
By CORALLUS MEEKS on October 2024
Any day now… when they tell me this I am already so tall At the birth of the new moon In the face of Mother…
Scarred
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on October 2024
Lines, Jagged lines, Broken jagged lines, Broken jagged lines stretching from cheek to cheek. Red, Red blood, Red blood glistening from open wounds. Cuts, Cuts…
Little garden tainted
By ZADIE WANG on October 2024
A flower wilts in my soul when you bring me close. I mourn the death of a lily intangible as I feel the flowers in…
Psalm 151
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on October 2024
You shed light on the darkness of my soul. Your love is overpowering. You cast out demons from my mind, Opening pastures of meek sheep…
Venus
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on September 2024
You showed me your world, a garden of rose. Its doors would open each time I kissed you. Those doors slammed closed, my heart was…
Dunebird
By CORALLUS MEEKS on September 2024
Did you will the ray of rainbow on the wall? I saw the source dancing in the window, thought of the possibility it held in…
Trees full of beautiful leaves resting still, thousands of leaves rest on the ground undisturbed. Once the wind trickles in and tree branches begin to…
The Waiting Room
By ACE DUFRESNE on September 2024
Ting-a-ling. The room smells like a hospital–like the desperate attempt to cover up birth, death, and all the pain in between with cleaning supplies. A…
mother tongue
By ZADIE WANG on September 2024
i felt a burning in my throat when i cut out my mother tongue. i let the blood pool in my gums before i spit…
Dreams of the Dead
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on September 2024
And then it stopped. The mind slowly fading, The heart not palpitating. And then he went. His body destroyed, His fall from grace was his…
big far away
By TARAN KNUTSON on September 2024
the stars in the sky don’t know we admire them; but they would appreciate our centuries our generations of pointing up and saying look, look,…
The Station
By JULIA KLEINBERG on September 2024
Allison didn’t like this place. The tiles were strewn roughly beneath her feet, almost parallel with each other but not quite. She didn’t like the…
Haikus
By RUBY ZAWEL on September 2024
Summer came and soon it will leave us in its dust But the water stays Waves gently lapping One difference now exists forty-three hour drive…
The Rich Man
By CAEDMON SETHUPATHY on September 2024
God bless the rich man dying on the floor, The chains of corrupt governance drag to Hell his soul. Say goodbye to the life known…
Beings of the Mind
By CAITLIN STRONG on June 2024
The creature who followsand the one who hides.For the two of youcan never standside by side. I call and I callbut you never come. My…
A Dialogue
By JULIA KLEINBERG on June 2024
“Let’s play two truths and a lie.” “Excuse me?” “Let’s play two truths and a lie!” “Do I know you?” “No, but you will if…
The Waves from Plastic Cliffs
By TANIA HAO on June 2024
Yellow skyover endless horizonMonochrome backdrop for silvertongues of ocean, dancing wild and alive.With no land to surge into,the waves are ripplingflat plains. No seabirds fly…
Frozen
By ELLA AVGAR on June 2024
It was only summer for the rabbits. They stuck out their cracked noses from the yellowing bushes, ears twitching rhythmically. Heat battered their soft fur…
When The Last Snow Falls
By K MCNAIRN on June 2024
It doesn’t really.It’s always some small storm in February; Everyone rejoices and puts away all the winter things. Then March comes around,And everyone remembers why…
Stockholm
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on June 2024
Never pull the knife from your flesh.It was the first rule of first aid.The first rule for puncture wounds, that is. You put the knife…
The Ramblings
By ZADIE WANG on June 2024
I listen to the ramblingsof an unhappy man.His words slur into incoherent sentencesas he tiptoes between benign topics and those that strike chords.I feel my…
Ending Things Does Not Mean You Gave Up
By TIN CHO AYE on June 2024
Throughout your life, you are going to meet all kinds of peopleYou are going to meet good people and bad peopleYou are going to make…