Leighs other self

Leah’s Other Self by Daniel Thompson

The first shouts come from her little sister. “Leah, Leah, Leah.” She hears her sister but convinces herself another Leah is being called. Her other self born into a [...]

February 1, 2014

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, [...]
Vending Machine Press Issue #17

December 10, 2016

Photo by: Johannes Huwe The very fine writers for Issue 17 are: Crying in Cars With Ghosts by Maggie McEvoy Three [...]
Arriving at LAX by Pamela Hammond

March 19, 2016

Flying in a 747 at 30,000 feet, through the porthole, a sunset wedges between the Pacific and mango-colored clouds. Nearly [...]
At my sons concert and other poems by Justin Hyde

January 9, 2017

at my son’s concert on a little wooden chair next to my ex-wife in the auditorium. we don’t talk much outside of [...]
Patience, Dear by Ira Herbold

October 1, 2014

I am waiting in a darkened room, facing the door, hands on knees. I am waiting for Christianity to seem plausible. I am [...]
The Silver Birch by Vincent O’Connor

October 1, 2014

In the garden of my deceased dad there stood a single tree. It bore no fruit, offered no druids’ code, brought forth no [...]
Unrecovered Poem by Samantha Madway

September 2, 2016

Rooms filthy from all the sorrow. Trashcans filled with tissues filled with snot. Dark circles dyed under every eye. Dead [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Isn’t a Funeral by K. Barber

August 1, 2015

It is a sticky August afternoon, and flies keep landing on me like I’m a corpse. “Emily,” my mother [...]
How to Explain to Your Ex Why Their X-Ray’s Your Desktop by Margaryta Golovchenko

December 1, 2014

Her mother named her White Dahlia, the consequence of unplanned pregnancy while studying forensics. Or so she told the boy [...]