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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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  • Someday I’ll Love Meg Johnson and other poems by Meg Johnson

    September 11, 2017

    Even though she is a biological woman who wants to be a drag queen. Even though I read her diary and she confessed [...]
  • The Silver Birch by Vincent O’Connor

    October 1, 2014

    In the garden of my deceased dad there stood a single tree. It bore no fruit, offered no druids’ code, brought forth no [...]
  • Pitiful by Jeffrey Zable

    May 29, 2016

    Driving home in a cold, pouring rain I spot this guy limping along in the street completely barefoot, wearing only a t-shirt [...]
  • Fourth of July 2016 by Kristine Brown

    April 24, 2017

    Celebrate USA. Free gallon of tea with every family meal. Every marquee in front of each local restaurant peddled the same [...]
  • classifieds and other poems by Chloe DeFilippis

    February 7, 2017

    you took my shredded skin / wove it into baskets / sold them for $$$ couldn’t protest cuz my voice’s been ground into [...]
  • Two Poems by Betsy Martin

    September 2, 2016

    The Biosphere This storm is strange for Tucson, the frigid rain sprayed down the way the gardener hoses bird excrement from [...]
  • Autumn leaves and other poems by Alison Znamierowski

    October 23, 2017

    Autumn Leaves with Pictures we opened each other like maps explored, traced our fingers along every outline, got utterly and [...]
  • A DATING PROFILE THAT HAS BEEN PARTIALLY FILLED IN WITH A SMARTPHONE’S PREDICTIVE TEXT FEATURE and other poems by Linette Reeman

    June 20, 2017

    [after Madeline Lessing] My name is: HELLO BEAUTIFUL I AM ALIVE TODAY AND PHEW BOY AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG My age is: [...]
  • The Politicks of My Body by Jacklyn Janeksela

    February 13, 2017

    The politicks of my body goes like this. It’s none of your fucking business. My body is mine –whatever that means, but [...]
  • The Huldufolk by Liz Kay

    May 17, 2017

    You had spent most of your years gazing at the moon like a thick haired child on a Christmas advert but the orange plane to [...]
  • The Morning of the Day by Lee Foust

    April 1, 2014

    I half sat/half lay propped up on a pillow in bed looking out the bay window in the nearest corner of Betty’s large [...]
  • Vending Machine Press Issue #6

    October 1, 2014

    Dear Readers, Welcome to the new issue of Vending Machine Press. We would to thank everyone in the writing community for [...]
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