Maria Abate

April Sleeps in Velvet by Marie Abate

April has a headache. She doesn’t want to take her pills. She remembers last night, the tavern on the other side of town where she had to go to escape everyone, and she [...]

June 1, 2014

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 [...]
Our Man by Meg Pokrass

This week our stunted man hobbles around the house wearing fluffy, taped-together slippers. It appears as if he has broken a [...]
The wine label as poetry, 2 by Lindsey Thaden

JUAN CARLOS CUCHILLO FAMILY FARMS Rico Red Reserve Tinto Fino SONOMA COUNTY 2016 It started with a boy and a [...]
A Blossoming Storm Shades Reality and Insomniac Act by Alexis Bates & Logan February

Some physical existence & the yearning, always. Sky, jaw-wide, hurtling fictions to the ground. Witness this descent in [...]
Thieves by Kelle Grace Gaddis

Sleep is a type of dying we enter each night. If lucky, we rise from our rest in peace, our pillowed tombs, to see another [...]
Come for the stunning career opportunities by Jenya Doudareva

Ox was running late again. To get to work, he had to cut through thick cold darkness from his cluster of lights to the next. [...]
Six Poems by Benjamin Blake

Old Bones Weary, bleary-eyed distraction Forever trying to make it home Shuffling ‘round the living room, slipper-clad [...]
Bitter Witness and other poems by Jerry McGinley

The icy-eyed moon gnashes her razor teeth, shrieks like a wounded possum, glares at the starry-eyed lovers who pledge [...]
Coffee and Cigarettes and other poems by Benjamin Blake

Coffee & Cigarettes Sometimes, life doesn’t seem so bad A pot of black coffee brewing on the kitchen counter Cigarette [...]
Struck Birds by Catharine Lucas

San Gregorio State Beach, California Tide-packed sands; cliffscapes, buff and russet. One bleached rock thrust skyward, its [...]
Family Reunion In Three Parts by Jessica Adams

1. It had been my aunt’s room when she lived at home. And after that, when she moved back to teach at the elementary [...]
The Same Shine by Ernest Gordon Taulbee

The absence of a hangover made Samuel suspect he was dead. Last night’s moonshine had the perfect mix of burn and corn [...]