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2 days ago1 minTHREE POEMS by COLIN JAMESONE JUST HAS TO BE SO VERY CAREFUL Several statues of white angels have gone missing from the Angelenos Cemetery. I had been sleeping in...
3 days ago2 minA POEM by CLEM FLOWERSLOX, CAPERS, HONEY BUTTER There's faux- Vineyard Grapes up on the wall from when this place was an attempt at a classy Italian restaurant...
4 days ago6 minA STORY by KEITH BUZZARDTHE SCENE IS DEAD I was already dead when I got my revenge. When I had finally driven him to hang himself, I reveled in my victory,...
May 138 minEIGHT THINGS by JEN SCHNEIDER14 (PLUS) REASONS TO (RE)SET THE CUCKOO CLOCKS just when you think there is nothing more to say, an alarm clock rings, & the small wooden...
May 124 minFIVE POEMS by DALE BOOTONOVER TEXT we tell each other the sordid things we want to do to each other and to others while the other watches or catches in the act...
May 113 minFOUR POEMS by ABIODUN SALAKOBOY DISEMBODIED IN JUNE It is amazing how full the body is yet it is easily divisible. Basilio Donati Forget your body, boy/ and the way...
May 62 minTHREE POEMS by SCOTT CUMMINGBATH FART POEM The bath fart sounded like a note from a Shins song Trying to drown another back ache from a flying double knee drop and...
May 52 minA STORY by TEJASWINEE ROYCHOWDHURYMOONDUST COOKIES Earth tickles me with a million of her fingers as she dresses me in splotchy green. She rambles in tensed clickety...
May 43 minA STORY by CECILIA KENNEDYREMOTE TEAM USES TEXT-BASED CHAT FOR UNITY AND COHESION Executive Director Natasha: Oops! I accidentally hit the audio option, but we’re...
Apr 293 minTHREE POEMS by JOHN GREYWHERE IT ALL BEGAN It was back in the Garden when it was just two people, one man, one woman, and there were no jobs because jobs weren’t...
Apr 281 minTWO POEMS by JAI KNIGHTEARLY BIRD Naturally I’m a nightbird but this wintery morning I’m awake before most have got up out with mallards & watching a swan wash...
Apr 272 minFOUR THINGS by HOWIE GOODSOMETHING'S BURNING A black sun dawned over the horizon. Human ashes from the 15 ovens of the crematorium had been scattered as...
Apr 222 min'V-NECKS AND BEER' by WILL MUSGROVEV-NECKS AND BEER I took this job to buy v-neck t-shirts and beer. The plant starts at $16 an hour. To stay part-time, I’d lied and said...
Apr 211 min'INDIE LABEL APPLICANT' by PETER CLARKEINDIE LABEL APPLICANT A punk band named Crackpot Crusade. Song title: "Fuck Your Sins, Kids, for Jesus." In the key of C for Christ...
Apr 203 min'LEGS NOT REQUIRED FOR HUNTING, MATING' by M. ROANOKELEGS NOT REQUIRED FOR HUNTING, MATING The mermaid tosses her head back, exposing her neck to the sun and the wind. Perched uncomfortably...
Apr 151 minTHREE POEMS by R.S. BRANDRIFFROAD CLOSURE: WE WELCOME YOU ROAD CLOSED AHEAD —a bright spot on the side of the hill, steep drop on the other. Add a visual component to...
Apr 141 minA POEM by BARRACUDA GUARISCOCLASSICALLY RELAXED, LANDING PUNCHES OUTSIDE THE DREAM by dint of skimmed chance, we mutualize fake far(-off) eastern argot we’re not...
Apr 132 minFOUR THINGS by LEAH MUELLERA THIRD CHANCE After his second wife left him, Leo decided to live underwater. At first, it was hard to get used to the dampness. Leo’s...
Apr 83 min'THREE THINGS, SIMULTANEOUSLY' by GLENN CULLENTHREE THINGS, SIMULTANEOUSLY Two things happened simultaneously. The first was the realisation that Paul had made a huge mistake; the...
Apr 72 min'ERIKA JAYNE WITH ONE HAND ON A BIBLE*' by ALEX CARRIGANERIKA JAYNE WITH ONE HAND ON A BIBLE* No, I did not compare myself to Christ, someone else did and I reposted it. Now everyone can have a...