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The Price of the Ticket to Heaven by Raphael Maurice

Stay & hold me & these suffering hands. For I won’t be long. I will not remain unread like a book for God does come & blows the dust from my back & says [...]

August 14, 2019

Off Season & Real Image, Lens, Virtual Image by Jenya Doudareva

November 26, 2018

Off Season Sticky heat, sounds of electrical lines, traffic, commotion – all gone. The blue of the sky is crispier, [...]
Marriage For Dummies by Andrew Kuhn

September 2, 2016

Remember that we are all dummies here, and must never label each other as such. Say “I” a lot. As in, “I like how you [...]
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 [...]
Homeboy Chicken Weasel and other poems by Kevin Ridgeway

July 20, 2017

says he got her digits 13th-stepping at an AA meeting that he was going to try them out after he phones his sponsor tonight, [...]
Duct-Taped Wedding Bells by Grace Montgomery

December 1, 2014

I haven’t told you I’ve been sleeping on the floor the past six nights in a row. It’s probably because three pages of [...]
What’s In A Name? by Audrey Wick

December 28, 2016

She told me she thought about naming me Annabel Lee, after the famous female in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Instead, she named [...]
Two Poems by Jenya Doudareva

August 1, 2015

Single Malt Upward is where you look to find Unsatisfying answers to Somebody else’s dumb questions. Upward is the most [...]
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 [...]
expletive exclamation comma by Lindsey Thäden

March 10, 2017

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

April 1, 2014

Richie usually checked to see if I was awake before he practiced. He liked that I had no knowledge or interest in piano. [...]
Three Poems by Jacqueline Markowski

February 1, 2015

Mania Pulls six figures living paycheck to paycheck, a dry tongue away from homelessness. It takes out steel window loans [...]
Mimicking the path we walk by Mike Bernicchi

September 4, 2017

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow Peonies stagger paths worn in spots they [...]