john dorsey

Sheboygan County, Wisconsin No.1 by John Dorsey

a kid jacking another kid in the face outside the elementary school an old man in a fur coat carrying a dollhouse picking through our garbage the loss of magic that [...]

June 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 [...]
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 [...]
Three Poems by Molly Kelley

May 29, 2016

A Quality Skull I have a quality skull. I could find it in the dark. Stripped of its skin. I could hook my finger through [...]
Colossal by Ruth Daniell

April 1, 2015

“Aren’t you going to say anything?” Paul ignores the question. Instead, he glances down at the coffee-table that Mel [...]
FOUR WAY INDEPENDENCE and other poems by Mark Belair

October 23, 2017

FOUR-WAY INDEPENDENCE Try this at home: Sit in a chair and count out loud to four in a loop, then start tapping your right [...]
Planting Flowers and other poems by Paul Wiegel

February 20, 2017

Each one blooms a beginning. They look like white teacup tops, or like a lobes of the brain with all those tucks and folds [...]
We Bagged Sand All Night Until the Levee Broke and other stories by Steve Passey

October 23, 2017

I was trying to listen to the facilitator but the girl in the row in front of me turned and stared at me until I made eye [...]
Someday I’ll Love Meg Johnson and other poems by Meg Johnson

September 11, 2017

Even though she is a biological woman who wants to be a drag queen. Even though I read her diary and she confessed [...]
Fairy Tales and other poems by Jonathan Duckworth

May 21, 2017

Mediation. Shallow rill of air between our throats & the arrow that finds an artery. Our dreams boiled down, reduced to [...]
Psychic Mountains Ten Thousand Feet High by Sheldon Lee Compton

August 8, 2019

Clifton’s home is the same as anywhere; curses and miracles happen in the same small steps, and the difference between the [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #16

September 2, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 16 are: Two Poems by C.M Keehl Two Poems by Erin McIntosh [...]
this fish has no circadian rhythm (and it’s better off for it) by Chloe DeFilippis

March 11, 2017

the cicada in you sits on a rusted clothesline in the backyard a bird chased you into the sky once i had scarlet fever once [...]