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Erik Satie and Me by Ken Been
Poetry

Erik Satie and Me by Ken Been

August 30, 2024August 30, 20240

“Erik Satie and Me”, poetry by Ken Been #TheMetaworker #ForgeFriday

“Hares to Hounds” by Marco Etheridge
Fiction

“Hares to Hounds” by Marco Etheridge

November 21, 2022December 6, 20240

The boy feigns sleep, but he is ready to spring. Two children stalk his bed, dark-light-girl-boy, clad in spring-green and ochre, barefoot both. The boy …

“Seeking” by Pearce Green
Poetry

“Seeking” by Pearce Green

September 26, 2022September 25, 20220

my youth has drooped, the trees in the forest too.beard grown thick, wet the bed black;death calls our names alphabetically,the rooster still crows in the …

“Damp Streets in a Dry Town” by Timothy Resau
Fiction

“Damp Streets in a Dry Town” by Timothy Resau

November 26, 2021November 21, 20211

Countless streets going past, streets and buildings waiting, decaying; lining the city boulevards like tombstones leading into oblivion, waiting to be called into action, waiting …

“Tenderness” by Mary Paulson
Poetry

“Tenderness” by Mary Paulson

October 4, 2021November 20, 20211

Through the eye of a dream,the round pit of a binocular opening,I recognize myselfstanding in front of a stranger,his gun barrel pressedagainst the bone between …

“No Dreamin’ at the Double Tree” by Suzanne S. Rancourt
Poetry

“No Dreamin’ at the Double Tree” by Suzanne S. Rancourt

August 30, 2021August 29, 20210

everything smells like soap except that one hallway smeared withvolatile coconut particles, reminds me of that porn theatre in somedank Indianapolis district wild with heavy …

“Recreate” by Shannon Cuthbert
Poetry

“Recreate” by Shannon Cuthbert

February 8, 2021February 7, 20210

Floating, ghost horse wakes in a fieldExactly like his own, just that he can’t touchThe soft weeds crawling up the fence.At first, he shivers into …

“Gone” by BH James
Fiction

“Gone” by BH James

December 4, 2020March 22, 20240

Bob Sanders awoke one morning from a dream to discover that he no longer existed. He had died in the night. He had been fifty-eight …

“On Perfumed Wings it Ascended” by Andrew Johnston
Fiction

“On Perfumed Wings it Ascended” by Andrew Johnston

September 21, 2020January 10, 20210

When the dragon first wound its way through the fragrant mist that swallowed the mountain, most had no reckoning of its nature. It was a …

“A Bride” by Michael Howard
Fiction

“A Bride” by Michael Howard

August 14, 2020August 24, 20200

It was official: Angie Lash and Marco Di Luca, twenty-one years her senior, were wed.

“The Hunt” by Seth Jani
Poetry

“The Hunt” by Seth Jani

June 8, 2020August 29, 20200

I would step out of my bodyto dream I was concurrentwith the wind and light,or the painted stonestossed over the embankmentinto the hearts of rivers.I …

“Spinning the Sensualist” by Michael Grotsky
Fiction

“Spinning the Sensualist” by Michael Grotsky

March 2, 2020August 29, 20200

One lost Saturday night, around the last rays of the summer that never was, Yoshimi and William-James, one of the finer couples in their little …

“Taco Dreams” by William Torphy
Fiction

“Taco Dreams” by William Torphy

February 17, 2020February 24, 20200

    Peg had made good on her resolution to leave West Virginia, and here he was in San Francisco, seasonless though it was Spring, sleeping on …

“Non-Belonging” by Dr. Koshy AV
Poetry

“Non-Belonging” by Dr. Koshy AV

August 26, 2019September 3, 20200

When it was the fashionI too measured out my life in coffee spoons It was not only to youthat some things made no sensebut to …

“Blessing” by Jeff Burt
Poetry

“Blessing” by Jeff Burt

August 12, 2019August 29, 20200

may your eyelids be diaphanous parasols sheltering from the invasive light of the sunshielding as parables the blinding truthwhen love excites the eyesto things the heart …

“Seasons of Earth” by Manisha Manhas
Poetry

“Seasons of Earth” by Manisha Manhas

February 25, 2019August 19, 20200

the dust storms whineagainst the windowas cherry dreamsslide inside.Searching a marigold,a child’s eyes bob tothe tunes of  morningas do butterflies rise fromchrysanthemum jars.And so does the …

“How to Draw a Circle” by Damian Campana
Poetry

“How to Draw a Circle” by Damian Campana

May 28, 2018January 15, 20221

  Damian Campana is a Creative Writing student at a community college in Rochester, NY. He is an aspiring creator. He is passionate about telling …

“At What Price” by Ann Christine Tabaka
Poetry

“At What Price” by Ann Christine Tabaka

November 6, 2017February 23, 20200

He stood outside the door asking for directions, lost hope in hand. Paying the toll with a pocketful of dreams. Aspirations evaporating at the sound …

“Daymare” by Ann Christine Tabaka
Poetry

“Daymare” by Ann Christine Tabaka

August 28, 2017September 23, 20202

Fragments of dreams scattered among the ruins of once lofty ambitions, buried along with lost loves and white lace promises Standing tall against the crumbling …

“The Pissing Contest” by Laurie Frisbey
Poetry

“The Pissing Contest” by Laurie Frisbey

December 19, 2016February 22, 20222

Let’s make this a pissing contest. Place your bet with mine. I’m bound to win if winning means a longer yellow line. ‘Cause yellow’s the …

“A Passage” by Irsa Ruçi
Poetry

“A Passage” by Irsa Ruçi

September 12, 2016August 29, 20201

This one’s a very special post. We’re presenting to you the work of the highly accomplished Albanian Poet Irsa Ruçi, both translated, and in its …

“A Dream About a Sky That is a Sea” by Meli Ewing
Miscellaneous

“A Dream About a Sky That is a Sea” by Meli Ewing

February 1, 2016March 15, 20220

I am getting off the school bus at the top of the driveway in the afternoon on a Friday. In real life, there were only …

“Steps” By Elena Lucia Perez
Editorial / Miscellaneous

“Steps” By Elena Lucia Perez

November 9, 2015April 21, 20230

She looks at the ground, the sky, the trees; anywhere but her own heart.  She must, at all costs, keep the poison from entering her …

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