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Spy Games - Emily Painton
I glanced up from the notebook I was scribbling in to watch you stride into the room. You were still wet from another one of your long...
Mar 20, 20222 min read


Period Story - Hannah Berman
“Log log log! Ladies who log regularly are more aware of what’s going on down there.” It has been 96 days since my last period, a record....
Mar 18, 20227 min read


Sometimes.... - Anthony Karen
People say I’m quiet and keep to myself, but when I try to share they only hear what they want to hear... or it becomes about them....
Mar 16, 20223 min read


Kiss it Better - Charnice Dagley
I don’t know where you came from or why you chose me. The pursuit was a swift one. On the strength of your disguise and the dreams you...
Mar 15, 20223 min read


Crisis Runs Cold - C.J. Jaye
Frosted with bitterness, sprinkled with self loathing and ruefully self-aware. Trials, falls, failures. Her righteous rage poised...
Mar 14, 20223 min read


3rd Place Poetry Winner: All the men - Jose Varghese
who were to be my father-figures are dead. I witnessed their burials in the lands they thought they owned. They were the last to know of...
Mar 14, 20222 min read


1st Place Poetry Winner: Meyer Lemon Tree - Robin Kinzer
In the days after we break up, I become obsessed with the idea of planting a lemon tree. I have been cautioned by all of my plant-loving...
Mar 14, 20221 min read


2nd Place Poetry Winner: SOFT OPENING - Cassie Burkhardt
Snapping his fingers at the steaming cutlery before me the restaurant manager says, Dry this, one piece at a time until I can see my...
Mar 14, 20222 min read


weather - Trevor Scott Barton
thunderstorm take my hand, lead me to your secret place, lift up your dress, let me take you from behind like a gust of wind from the sea...
Mar 12, 20221 min read


The Cat’s Shrine - Jeremiah Prenn
Buried in the sax chute Is the long orange cat whisking a bone temple vestigial bird pile humming his mind with another. Mister knows...
Mar 10, 20221 min read


Edwin Hotel, 1974 - Diane Massam
industrial soot over toaster streetcars long-nosed rides sport an as-long ass old city void of steel and glass And so much more thinks a...
Mar 9, 20222 min read


Home - Alexa Zinke
Mommy worked too late under the fluorescents to fight the evil black mold creeping up the wall to Baby’s nursery. She hiked the mile-high...
Mar 8, 20221 min read
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