READ SOME BULLSHIT

Mar 7, 2022
1 min

A POEM by CLEM FLOWERS

YOU, ME, AND 1959 Salvation was promised every Sunday but I only ever found it in your lips when we'd sneak a kiss back behind the Noah's...

Mar 4, 2022
2 min

FOUR POEMS by JEREMY JUSEK

THE HUMAN NEST The drywall was torn down after the flood. Inside was a rat’s nest, containing moldy rags steeped in floodwater, patches...

Mar 3, 2022
4 min

TWO THINGS by MARC ISAAC POTTER

DOMINOES PART 001 Gerald likes to sleep with dominoes in his bed, they make him feel safe, protected. Unwisely, Gerald told one of his...

Mar 2, 2022
3 min

THREE STORIES by DYLAN BRIE DUCEY

THE HOUSE IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN My husband comes home at 6:00. The house is quiet and clean and smells of 409, Comet, and a soupçon of...

Feb 28, 2022
14 min

'KREWES' by SEAN MORRISSEY CARROLL

-Come closer, my son, so I may tell you of my fever dream. -Come close? I’ll get my mask. -Come close, come close. I don’t have much time...

Feb 26, 2022
1 min

A POEM by JANNAH YUSUF AL-JAMIL

LOVING IS LIKE TRYING TO THINK OF A TITLE FOR A POEM (DIFFICULT) Here's the truth, alright? Loving people is fucking hard. You know...

Feb 24, 2022
1 min

A POEM by PENNY SARMADA

YOU BECAME NOTHING I talk to myself the same way I used to talk to you it makes no difference to me now if you can hear me or not it...

Feb 23, 2022
1 min

A POEM by GAIL BELLO

MY CATHARSIS AS DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN I had a rough go of it last spring. I was forced to take on too many projects I had no heart in for a...

Feb 18, 2022
3 min

TWO POEMS by SAM ZIMMERMAN

GOD COMPLEX I see your cracked corona dead above your empty head. It reigns dim, dark, lacking the light of angelic truth, swarming over...

Feb 17, 2022
1 min

'DARK MIRACLE' by EADY H

To read "DARK MIRACLE," please view this PDF. Emily is writing as Eady H and finding she's really good at bullshit. She couldn't think of...

Feb 16, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by LUCIA GALLIPOLI

MY NERVOUS SYSTEM? SHE SURE IS! I am gross. I know this because upon sharing my OCD diagnosis with my loved ones, they were unanimously...

Feb 11, 2022
1 min

A POEM by JAECYN BONE

CAPITALISM the sterile monotony of papers in and out myriad trays of interminable to-do lists whiskered workers scurry, intent on their...

Feb 10, 2022
3 min

TWO POEMS by CASEY LAW

OUT OF THE DEEP Rain came crashing down on the lid of her white Honda Like missiles shot from heaven Like tiny fallen angels, blessing my...

Feb 9, 2022
5 min

'COCKSUCK ME, TOM CRUISE' by COLIN GEE

I met Geoff Kueen for the first time in a meeting of his peers, after he had been rather unceremoniously dethroned from the language...

Feb 4, 2022
1 min

A POEM by ROBERT ALLEN

UGOLANO, PRINCE OF MISFITS WHEREIN WE MEET OUR CAST OF CHARACTERS Ugolano yawned. Misfits have no idea what to do. Sitting on uncomfort...

Feb 4, 2022
2 min

TWO POEMS by BRIAR RIPLEY PAGE

NOT QUITE HUMAN, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT Day gaunts haunt the parking lot; robotripping makes the future look dim. Annihilating sunshine’s...

Feb 3, 2022
1 min

TWO THINGS by MARK BLICKLEY

CARLA (MONOLOGUE) Eric! Eric! Where is my Eric? Everything that man ever played, he played for me! You hear me! DO--YOU--HEAR--ME!? Eric...

Feb 2, 2022
1 min

A POEM by DOROTHY LUNE

TRAVELING OCEANS I could taste the possibility in the rain but now I'm in the Manhattan apartment. Plain beige walls, unfurnished, so I...

Jan 28, 2022
1 min

A POEM by MATT SCHULTZ

WRITTEN ON THE BATHROOM WALL Just below a roll of toilet paper cascading white toward the tile floor and a pool of dried piss where an...

Jan 27, 2022
1 min

THREE POEMS by ASHLEY VARELA

RETURN TO SENDER don't believe everything the postcard says i don’t wish you were here FEVER DREAM on the top floor of my favorite mall...

Jan 26, 2022
4 min

FIVE POEMS by HATTIE JEAN HAYES

I HONESTLY LOVE YOU, OR, THE OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN POEM Mine is not the first heart broken. I never claimed otherwise. You’d think, though,...

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