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The Same Shine by Ernest Gordon Taulbee

The absence of a hangover made Samuel suspect he was dead. Last night’s moonshine had the perfect mix of burn and corn sweetness, so he drank it with the same regard lungs [...]

October 23, 2017

End Times by Amy Saul-Zerby

March 2, 2017

I am a bridal registry at a sex shop. You are a plane crash. I am the dental records used to identify your corpse. Our teeth [...]
John and the Rainbow Whatever by Christopher DiCicco

January 4, 2016

John understood the rainbow, which is why he kept his hands on the red. He waited until it hurt, until he felt the colors [...]
My Empty Stomach by Ashlie Allen

September 2, 2016

I am too dizzy to eat, though the lemon cake smells good. She made it for me because she knows I am sad. We will argue when [...]
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 [...]
Lies to Tell the Body and other poems by Alyse Bensel

March 5, 2017

To become the opposite of orgasm, I practiced ………..breathing with the cyst nestled in my left ovary, where [...]
About The Universe by Eleanore Lee

September 2, 2016

Why worry? In five billion years our sun will become a spuming red giant. Will it matter then who got Mother’s Ming [...]
He Seems To Take A Masochistic Delight In Comforting Uncomfortable Truths and other stories by Alex Antiuk

February 10, 2017

I have an entire drawer filled with empty pill bottles. I am tempted to take the drawer out, dump it on the floor and count [...]
Two Poems by Carla McGill

May 29, 2016

ANOTHER DRIVE This time I leave the circling freeways of Los Angeles, head the other way toward the burnt land of [...]
Leah’s Other Self by Daniel Thompson

February 1, 2014

The first shouts come from her little sister. “Leah, Leah, Leah.” She hears her sister but convinces herself another [...]
Someone and other poems by Robert Martin Evans

October 23, 2017

who looks just like you speaks another language [...]
Two Poems by Mark Jackley

June 1, 2014

IT SNOWS, THE DEAD RETURN In the chill blanketing the barn horses shiver like rubber- booted fathers at the door who softly [...]
Two Poems by John Stupp

March 19, 2016

Colorado Sometimes it hits me the last time I saw my dad he was in a cardboard box at a crematorium in Colorado cold as [...]

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