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Rock Pools by F.C Malby

‘Look, a starfish, bright orange. Look at it.’ Sophie points to the ripples in the rock pool, her pigtails drop down over her cheeks, cover the freckles that have faded [...]

January 18, 2017

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 [...]
Sloppy Brain by Ashlie Allen

July 7, 2017

I’m not a ghost, but you touch me as if you can’t feel anything, expression absent of fascination, hands still like [...]
Who Leaves Sprinklers on During a Flood by Alex Antiuk

June 30, 2017

I put god on a pedestal during the 5 days I spent in a white shack on the beach. On the 6th day god fell. It began with a [...]
Killing My Grandmother’s Grandaughter and other poems by Kanika Lawton

January 25, 2017

I think my body will always be an euphemism for apology, always too tall or too short or too wide or too thin. My hips [...]
Two Poems by Helen Wickes

September 2, 2016

January Dazzle What did we know then—clock ticking, spilled salt, and that one faucet— bitterly, bitterly. The heart [...]
The Prescription by Jenya Doudareva

March 1, 2017

It was about time to renew summer. Traditionally, a person or a group that had the necessary power would do it. It was [...]
Later now, but and other poems by Ed Higgins

June 13, 2017

I can still remember how we kissed then the buzz of bees in our head. Or was it the Zinfandel we had with Reuben sandwiches [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #15

May 29, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 15 are: and when i by Alison Leigh Znamierowski All Types of [...]
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 [...]
The Price of the Ticket to Heaven by Raphael Maurice

August 14, 2019

Stay & hold me & these suffering hands. For I won’t be long. I will not remain unread like a book for God does [...]
Three Poems by Andrea Lawler

August 1, 2015

Life is a Book Written by Bukowski Sitting in the car in the sweltering heat in the hospital parking lot waiting for my [...]
Dark Cloud by Jenya Doudareva

February 18, 2017

He hid inside Nimbostratus Gardens. Heavy damp smell of vegetation filled his throat and made his glasses foggy. For a [...]

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