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"These Upright Nights" Robert Okaji
Robert Okaji holds a BA in history, and was recently diagnosed with stage four metastatic lung cancer. He lives, for the time being, in...
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Apr 291 min read
"Quicksilver" by Mark J Mitchell
He reads mercury’s writing on his wall— tight silver letters concealing a name. Does it mean warning? Does he see a call? The element’s...
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Apr 296 min read
"Daaood's Tears" Candice Kelsey
on April 10, 2024, O.J. Simpson died from prostate cancer There is a building at La Cienega that has been a variety of things throughout...
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Apr 291 min read
"Fermentation Series" by Leslie Morris
Leslie Morris works as a speech/language therapist in the Austin Public Schools. Morris' work has been published in The Cincinnati...
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Apr 291 min read
"Fermentation Series" by Leslie Morris
Leslie Morris works as a speech/language therapist in the Austin Public Schools. Morris' work has been published in The Cincinnati...
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Apr 295 min read
"Existing as Glass" by Aarron Sholar
It was nearly 7pm. I stood at the drop-off counter at the pharmacy as I waited for help from the man behind the counter. People walked...
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Apr 294 min read
"Mavis and Bruce" by Angela Townsend
Bruce and Mavis, Mavis and Bruce. They blow through my hair like the Holy Spirit. Our double helixes have never danced, but they are...
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Apr 292 min read
"Billet-doux – A Parable" by Kenneth M. Kapp
An Envelope G. turned away from the corner; the toppled streetlight was partially covered by snow and the sun reflecting off the dirty...
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Apr 293 min read
"Me & The Medium" by Suzannah Watchorn
Soulmeeting So, what do you want to get out of your reading today? she asks, followed by Okay, amazing—a response she’ll give many times....
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Apr 292 min read
"The Bridal Veil Falls" by Mark Crimmins
You perch on a dry dead tree trunk that was rammed into the riverbank during the spring runoff, your feet dangling towards the icy clear...
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Apr 291 min read
"Answers" by Ace Boggess
Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy. His writing has appeared in Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly...
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Apr 291 min read
"nightmare 042420" by Alexandra Castrejon
Alexandra Castrejon is an international student at the University of Arizona. She is an English major, and French and Creative Writing...
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Apr 291 min read
"prayers for the namesake" by Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey
in your grandfather’s knotted old rolex, i left a piece of myself in the reflection. there’s sadness in the grime of that mirror; rub...
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Apr 294 min read
"Hangin' On" by Blake Kilgore
Tuesday night turned into Wednesday morning, and we were nowhere near home. Me and the boys were always on that pendulum, swinging from...
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Apr 291 min read
"Combustion" by Michael Brosnan
Even when the summer heat numbs the heart and we’re hard stuck in the urban rim’s rut of traffic, choked down the funnel of construction...
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Apr 291 min read
Three poems by Noah B. Salamon
Noah B. Salamon is the English Department Chair at Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California. He received his MA in English from...
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Apr 291 min read
"Bananas" by Robert Fillman
No matter where they are, on a kitchen counter, paper plate, or a bowl, they find a way toward love, spooning in bunches, growing old...
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Apr 291 min read
"Tomatoes and Beans" by Russell Rowland
Ladies are bringing in squash, tomatoes, from little outside plots; and Mo has his baked beans ready for the barbeque picnic on Monday,...
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Apr 113 min read
James Bourey reviews Canticle For Remnant Days, Poems By Jane C. Miller
Canticle For Remnant Days Poems By Jane C. Miller Pond Road Press 2024, $18 Full disclosure: I have known Jane Miller for several years,...
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Apr 112 min read
James Bourey reviews Safe Colors: A Novel in Short FictionsBy Thaddeus Rutkowski
Publisher: New Meridian Arts - 2023, $20 This novel by Thaddeus Rutkowski has been out for several months now, and I’m a little late to...
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