The jewelry had been sorted; the furniture, given away. Stripped of all that had once made it home, the house was a skeleton. There was…
Posts published in “Literary”
The Experiment
By JULIA KLEINBERG on December 2024
Content Warning: Gore, death, suicide. He came to us suddenly, in a purple blaze of glory and with promises of salvation. He left just as…
Waterworks
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
I curse the divine being who invented the duct: Rome’s revered creation, Aztec architectural marvels which became the lead-lined pipes in elementary school fountains which…
Blue Skies
By ACE DUFRESNE on November 2024
The mattress groaned, giving the man away. “John?” his wife asked, the quiver in her voice plucking at her husband’s heartstrings. “Yes, Char?” “Where are…
Beautiful, Bridal, Alive
By ZADIE WANG on November 2024
Content warning: Blood, gore. As I pull the sleeves of my wedding dress over my shoulders, I feel a dead woman squirm. She’s uncomfortable in…
Tashlich
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
Release Lay yourself down in the river and let the rocks chip away at your soul and it will not be a sharp thing, but…
Untapped beauty
By CORALLUS MEEKS on November 2024
Pigments stream unphased through the prism, where unseen within she is hidden. Then absorbed in her colorless flesh dancing light rests, untapped beauty on unspoken…
Lost Letters
By THEODORE DUFRESNE on November 2024
Oh, Tell me where a lost letter goes! Each time a pen touches parchment Each time a man scratches paper – bleeds ink Bleeds –…
Every Time It Rains
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
I am beckoned. It comes to me, rushing, A noise of perfect, pattering percussion To match my own racing, pounding heart. They say those days…
Water Balloon
By JULIA KLEINBERG on November 2024
Pick it up, Feel the sagging weight under your fingers, Drop it. It hits the ground, flexes, bounces, but doesn’t pop. Carefully pry it open,…
A Perfectly Normal Life
By JULIA KLEINBERG on October 2024
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…
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…