Vending Machine Press Issue #3
This issue we are proud to present, stories and poems from writers across the globe that explore the morbid longings and powerful mysteries, the destructive passions and [...]
Issue 3
The Morning of the Day by Lee Foust
I half sat/half lay propped up on a pillow in bed looking out the bay window in the nearest corner of Betty’s large bedroom in the back of her new flat—it still felt like [...]
Richie by Amy Scharmann
Richie usually checked to see if I was awake before he practiced. He liked that I had no knowledge or interest in piano. According to him, that made me a good audience. [...]
Milk Crates by Melanie Tague
I watched you once sitting on the bench by the courthouse, staring at the ground and I whispered that you were missing the night sky but the hum of the crickets drowned me [...]
Turtle and Hare by Chloe Clark
If loss were a mathematical concept— a subtraction, a division, a formula for invisible numbers, then how does one calculate their own sum? What losses are quantifiable? [...]
Two Poems by Daniel Ford
the subway On the metro today, Red line between Metro and Union I saw a girl Who reminded me so much of you I looked four times. She was beautiful but tangibly sad, pained as [...]
The Cooks Alphabet by Ken Poyner
I am having my way with the waitress. Her dress is bunched up about her waist and her panties are dangling at one ankle, not merely twisted to the side. She is on her [...]
Green Light by Lauren Jonik
“Stand clear of the closing doors, please.” The familiar recording echoed throughout the subway car. As if on cue, the muffled voice of the conductor followed as the [...]
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