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Wrigley Field by Mike Lafontaine

Wrigley Field was a like second home to me when I was a boy. I grew up in Deerfield, Illinois. I had no brothers or sisters it was just me and my cat Eloise. My father was [...]

December 1, 2013

When She Was Good by Siri Williams

“You wanna know what the problem is with people around here?” The cigarette between her lips muffled her words; her fierce eyes fixed upon me with a typically unnerving [...]

December 1, 2013

Hindsight by Peter McMillan

Street level in the financial district it was dark and the streetlights were still on. Overhead the sky was blue and sunlight glinted off the windows of the upper floors. [...]

December 1, 2013

Confessions of a Lunch Thief by Allie Marini Batts

I’m just like any other kind of criminal. I started small. In kindergarten. My life of crime can be traced back to a natural-foods loving mother. It was lunch after lunch [...]

December 1, 2013

Coffee Stains by Christina Murphy

Carrying a Starbucks Venti with double cream down the steps, he trips, hits his head, and the coffee spills out into a small brown river. Tiny figures—maybe faeries—skate [...]

December 1, 2013

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Crying in Cars with Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy

by Vending Machine Press in Poems

Footsteps follow me in the parking lot, looking back I see only dead leaves turning in the breeze —it must be the ghosts. See I’d just finished crying with them in the [...]

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Past Contributors

  • Vending Machine Press Issue #12

    November 1, 2015

    Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for issue 12 are: Two Poems by Michelle Brooks At Least by Jennifer Saunders [...]
  • Two Poems by Chelsea Eckert

    December 1, 2014

    THE ASEXUAL “I am sorry for your loss,” he said when I mentioned that after ten some- odd years of psychotropics, I was [...]
  • Vending Machine Press Issue #11

    August 1, 2015

    Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for issue 11 are: Carnival Surprise by Tasha Coryell Four Dog Track Poems by [...]
  • Snippet from Soft Opening by Alexandra Naughton

    October 11, 2017

    Playing with this power because I can and because it’s been done to me and it’s something I’ve always had and never [...]
  • Charting Greatness by Laura Iodice

    March 14, 2017

    Like many baby boomers, I learned how to diagram sentences in grade school. As a kid who loved reading and writing, I [...]
  • You Will Drink by Eric Boyd

    June 1, 2014

    It is the end of the night. A man you hardly know, a new dishwasher at the restaurant you have been at for two years too [...]
  • Example 52 by JD DeHart

    October 1, 2014

    That lack of response to my chance Good Morning, the stare when I wave hello, yet another example of why I dislike most [...]
  • Vending Machine Press Issue #2

    February 1, 2014

    We would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported Vending Machine Press since our inception last year. We have [...]
  • 2KBK by Cara Lorello

    August 1, 2015

    He left a note for me on the cardboard back cover of a notepad hung by a magnate on the fridge, all its paper gone from [...]
  • girls with griffins in their eyes need to wear contacts by Calvero

    April 1, 2015

    I saw a pretty girl in a cafe today. She was sitting alone and sipping some kinda coffee drink. She looked like that musty [...]
  • False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski

    March 20, 2017

    False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, [...]
  • Thieves by Kelle Grace Gaddis

    August 28, 2017

    Sleep is a type of dying we enter each night. If lucky, we rise from our rest in peace, our pillowed tombs, to see another [...]
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