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Photophobia by Bobbi Lurie

I pray he will eat. I know he won’t let me make him food. His fear of wasting water overwhelms him so he rushes to turn off the kitchen faucet. He won’t drink [...]

August 1, 2014

ACQUA DI PARMA and other poems by Frank Rubino

October 23, 2017

Not that green afternoon, when walking by a taco truck near Montclair High School, I felt a bird drop a load on my forehead. [...]
Overpass by Alison Hicks

September 2, 2016

Two days after my mother died I lay on the mat in the storefront studio down the street from the tracks. My mother appeared [...]
In Retrospect and other poems by Z.M.Wise

August 2, 2017

I should have looked both ways. I should have seen your forceful wishes to confuse me into mental paralysis. If I should [...]
Leaving Deneb by Jenya Doudareva

April 18, 2018

Two deer along the trail yesterday. First, they hesitated as I passed them – muscles tensed and ears on alert, but [...]
Familiar Stranger by Eva-Marie Sher

September 2, 2016

The crow on the horizon you see in the eyes of the Trappist… from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank [...]
Radio Truth by Ashlie Allen

January 4, 2016

Dad twitches in his sleep, afraid he’s really on the reservation. I keep the radio on, too sad and hungry to sleep. If [...]
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 [...]
How to Explain to Your Ex Why Their X-Ray’s Your Desktop by Margaryta Golovchenko

December 1, 2014

Her mother named her White Dahlia, the consequence of unplanned pregnancy while studying forensics. Or so she told the boy [...]
#100 and other poems by Elizabeth Schmuhl

February 25, 2017

I have a certain fantasy: the earth that holds me swallows me deliberately. No one digs me a grave. What a luxury to slip [...]
Family Reunion In Three Parts by Jessica Adams

March 19, 2016

1. It had been my aunt’s room when she lived at home. And after that, when she moved back to teach at the elementary [...]
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 [...]
What She’s Made Of by Vincent Anioke

February 1, 2015

Stacey came over today. Her pink hair ribbon was gone, replaced by a sort of butterfly comb that raked through her auburn [...]