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Monogamy and other poems by Nooks Krannie

is it ok to not like life but still like you? somewhat i’m proud of my breasts and my nipples are warriors like mountain tops mounted by dry skin you kiss them gently and [...]

April 11, 2017

With Feathers by Sheldon Lee Compton

What place is safe now, so we can say what our good logic leads us to understand? Saying we will create our own sunlight, gather and store our own fresh water, conjure up a [...]

April 10, 2017

Insurance Purposes by J.J. Krill

scrambling to figure out what to do after leaving the holding tank an actual clinic some where is looking like fifty-grand a month who’s got that kind of money the hospital [...]

April 10, 2017

Come for the stunning career opportunities by Jenya Doudareva

Ox was running late again. To get to work, he had to cut through thick cold darkness from his cluster of lights to the next. The walk was long. The freezing air would pierce [...]

April 3, 2017

Lush by Deniz Zeynep

……………………………………………………….lush Lux peach [...]

March 28, 2017

please leave a message and other poems by katie lewington

the echo of a call rings on voicemail left undeleted repeated until the words are a mantra in your head have to let go but then what harm is there in listening to an old [...]

March 27, 2017

A Modern Yiddish Dictionary by Mari Pack

I. The old Ashkenazim at my office say “nuu” when they want something like fucking Israeli teenagers they are restless, urgent – unrelenting. For the Goys, of which I [...]

March 23, 2017

False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski

False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, re-sold, re-hashed, hashed-brown, mashed down, spoken [...]

March 20, 2017

What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente

who i decide to take as a lover might be one of life’s great mysteries – listen lover, when you ask me if there are spinning suns lodged in your throat I’ll say no, [...]

March 16, 2017

Facade by Ian Scott McCormick

Phil tried to remember what it was like when he went off to college, 25 years ago. He tried to remember what that state school looked like. Nothing like this campus, he [...]

March 16, 2017

June’s suspicious eyes by Raphael Maurice

You would say root and I saw it, the deep goodness of brittle earth. Blossom, you’d sing, as I licked my lips & fell against a hill of dirt, laughing at this, our good [...]

March 15, 2017

Charting Greatness by Laura Iodice

Like many baby boomers, I learned how to diagram sentences in grade school. As a kid who loved reading and writing, I actually looked forward to grammar lessons that required [...]

March 14, 2017

The Visitors by Sheldon Lee Compton

Uma made a habit of standing in front of a full mirror with a towel wrapped around her head. Always like this when she was fresh from the shower with ropes of her [...]

March 13, 2017

Pollen for the un-buried monster by Ashlie Allen

Grandma sat on the steps with me, not to spend time but to show me mercy. “You stink, little man.” she coughed. “Are there a lot of bugs on me?” I asked. “Yes, but [...]

March 12, 2017

this fish has no circadian rhythm (and it’s better off for it) by Chloe DeFilippis

the cicada in you sits on a rusted clothesline in the backyard a bird chased you into the sky once i had scarlet fever once i stopped eating once i tried bones for fun did i [...]

March 11, 2017

expletive exclamation comma by Lindsey Thäden

Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton First Presidential Debate, 2016 Broadcast by NBC at Hofstra University Hempstead, NY [...]

March 10, 2017

Crying in Cars with Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy

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 [...]

March 9, 2017

the day i stopped being a black hole and other poems by Linda M. Crate

“i bet you don’t remember me,” he said, flashing me a devil may cry smirk and eyes full of talons; i was a young girl when we first met and he broke up with [...]

March 7, 2017

A Call to the Stronger Sex by Christine Stoddard

Ancestors whisper hungrily from their cradles of stars They will haunt us until we women-folk feed their obsession for tradition At least those are the stories that creep [...]

March 6, 2017

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  • Welcome to Vending Machine Press First Birthday Issue #7

    Photo by Johannes Huwe Dear Readers, Welcome to Issue 7 of Vending Machine Press. This is a special issue as it is our First [...]
  • In Which All of My White Ex-Boyfriends Simultaneously Run For President by Khaya Osbourne

    the careless whisper, soft pair of lips, hushed ‘i love you’ that you threw into the night comes back to your [...]
  • Two Poems by Cara Lorello

    VIEW FROM A ROOM, OCEANSIDE Through a single window with vertical paneled curtains drawn back, I watched clouds cast off in [...]
  • Witness by Leigh Fisher

    There’s a small, quiet person Hanging in the doorway just a little too afraid to sleep Lingering at the top of the stairs [...]
  • Mimicking the path we walk  by Mike Bernicchi

    Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Peonies stagger paths worn in spots they [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • False Narratives and other poems by Lauren Suchenski

    False narratives this one was the one I concocted – news (though it was fake, it was new) or olds or things sold, [...]
  • Patience, Dear by Ira Herbold

    I am waiting in a darkened room, facing the door, hands on knees. I am waiting for Christianity to seem plausible. I am [...]
  • How to Explain to Your Ex Why Their X-Ray’s Your Desktop by Margaryta Golovchenko

    Her mother named her White Dahlia, the consequence of unplanned pregnancy while studying forensics. Or so she told the boy [...]
  • Someone and other poems by Robert Martin Evans

    who looks just like you speaks another language   [...]
  • Science and Change and other poems by Sarah Sarai

    I declined a knighthood honoring my heroic efforts at keeping heroism effortless, something I perfected while [...]
  • Arriving at LAX by Pamela Hammond

    Flying in a 747 at 30,000 feet, through the porthole, a sunset wedges between the Pacific and mango-colored clouds. Nearly [...]
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