Daniel Von der Embse

How were we to know? by Daniel Von der Embse

A small, scented patch of paper is all that remains of the time we lived together above the all-night barbershop on Claremont Ave. You made me ox-tail soup and took care of [...]

April 1, 2015

A Frosty Laburnum Morning While Listening To Duck Stab! by David R Miller

February 1, 2015

Mildly stoned, with my elbows supported by the back deck railing, I leant forward toward the expanse of unmown lawn that [...]
Reconnecting with Mira by Prachi Jain

February 1, 2014

From: janya@yahoo.com To: miracares@yahoo.com Subject: I Am Sorry Mira, I have been thinking about you for a long time [...]
Seasonally Affected and Disordered by Judith Cody

March 19, 2016

Sky stuffed with leaden clouds seeming ready to suffocate like a soggy pillow feeling like the regulation issue California [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Two Poems by Lynne Potts

November 1, 2015

FACTS, CHICKENS, AND TRAIN TRACKS Acquisition in the lobby of the El Rancho Hotel, Gallup New Mexico where the waitress [...]
Spill by Karie Fugett

April 1, 2015

The day my husband died, April 20, 2010, BP oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico. I was told about the spill weeks later, [...]
here is a list of things you left behind by Alison Leigh Znamierowski

January 4, 2016

10) purple clovers plucked & siphoned by hungry mouths on summer walks, discarded into roadside fields 9) a missing [...]
What Light Makes a Star? by Joanna C. Valente & Stephanie Valente

March 16, 2017

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 [...]
The Emperor Has No Balls by Lindsey Thaden

March 30, 2017

After INDECLINE’s multicity American art installation featuring a naked Donald Trump August 2016 written in [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #3

April 1, 2014

This issue we are proud to present, stories and poems from writers across the globe that explore the morbid longings and [...]
A Modern Yiddish Dictionary by Mari Pack

March 23, 2017

I. The old Ashkenazim at my office say “nuu” when they want something like fucking Israeli teenagers they are restless, [...]

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